The 80% horizon is a fraction of the 50% one. Mythos Preview does 1,045 min at 50% but 186 at 80%; Opus 4.6 does 719 against 70. A 10-hour overnight job is a coin flip.
Back to the trend of the day: Claude Cowork tasks on Pro and Max run after you close laptop
Poly Rating · from the trend of the day
Claude Cowork vs ChatGPT Agent: Top 10 Cloud Agents 2026
Since October 6, 2026, new Claude Cowork tasks on the $20 Pro plan keep running in Anthropic's cloud after you close the laptop. Claude Opus 4.6 finishes 12-hour tasks half the time, but its 80%-reliable limit is only 70 minutes.
- No. 1: Claude Cowork
- 10 places
01Final list
The leading AIs built their own top-ten lists independently. Above is one combined result that is easy to check: every place has a reason, the AIs that included it and, where the AIs gave one, a source.
Order: from most to least AI agreement.
A bright badge means this AI put the entry on its list. A dim badge means it did not.
- 1
Claude Cowork
Its help page says scheduled tasks run with no device online. Opus 4.6 holds 70 min at 80%, against 54 for GPT-5.4. Catch: local files still need the desktop app open.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, Wenxin, DeepSeek, Qwen. Did not include: MiMo.In their lists: Claude: 1 · ChatGPT: 1 · Meta: 1 · Grok: 1 · Gemini: 1 · Wenxin: 1 · DeepSeek: 2 · Qwen: 1
What each AI noted 8
- Claudeplace 1
The only product here whose own help page says outright that work continues after you close the laptop and that you can start, steer and review it from the phone. Its Claude models sit at the top of METR: Mythos Preview 1,045 min at 50% and 186 min at 80%.
- ChatGPTplace 1
The standout overnight worker: its new cloud sessions can continue while the laptop sleeps, and scheduled tasks no longer need an awake computer.
- Metaplace 1
12.0h at 50% and 70min at 80% for Opus 4.6 – the longest reliable overnight window at $20/mo Pro, and since Oct 6 2026 new tasks run in cloud after you close laptop
- Grokplace 1
Since 6 Oct 2026 every new Pro/Max task lives on Anthropic servers and finishes while your laptop sleeps; phone checks the same session.
- Geminiplace 1
Delivers an 80% success horizon of 45 minutes on cloud VMs that keep processing after your laptop lid closes, paired with native mobile status notifications.
- Wenxinplace 1
First big assistant to promise every paid-plan job survives a closed lid — and it ships.
- DeepSeekplace 2
$20 buys a cloud agent with a 70-minute 80%-reliability horizon and a schedule — about one-tenth the price of a Dot.
- Qwenplace 1
Runs fully in the cloud on Pro and Max plans since October 6, 2026, meaning tasks finish even if your laptop lid is shut.
8 AIs put it here - 2
ChatGPT Work / ChatGPT agent mode
Same $20 entry price and phone control as Cowork. But GPT-5.4 holds only 54 min at 80%, and Plus caps agent mode at 40 messages a month.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, MiMo, Wenxin, Qwen. Did not include: DeepSeek.In their lists: Claude: 2 · ChatGPT: 2 · Meta: 6 · Grok: 3 · Gemini: 2 · MiMo: 4 · Wenxin: 2 · Qwen: 3
What each AI noted 8
- Claudeplace 2
Cloud browser tasks continue after you close ChatGPT and event triggers fire from Gmail, Slack and GitHub, but GPT-5.4's 80% horizon is only 54 minutes, against 186 for Mythos Preview.
- ChatGPTplace 2
A cloud browser can click through signed-in websites while you are away, but a login challenge or approval can stop the job.
Source ↗ - Metaplace 6
$20 Plus limited agent, $8 Go desktop-only – cloud sandbox browser that outlives chat window, cheaper entry than Dots
Source ↗ - Grokplace 3
5–30 min agent runs plus hourly/daily scheduled or event-triggered jobs all live in OpenAI’s cloud sandbox you can open from your phone.
Source ↗ - Geminiplace 2
Runs in sandboxed cloud micro-VMs with web browsing and custom connectors, sustaining 42 minutes at 80% reliability while streaming step audits to mobile.
- MiMoplace 4
The one everyone means by "chatgpt agent": a cloud virtual computer you can hand a browser to — capped at 40 messages a month on Plus.
Source ↗ - Wenxinplace 2
Workers that live in OpenAI's cloud, spawned on a schedule you set — phone check included.
- Qwenplace 3
Uses a visual virtual computer in the cloud to browse the web and interact with sites while you sleep.
Source ↗
8 AIs put it here - 3
Microsoft Copilot Cowork / Scout
Estimate: Runs your Outlook, Teams and Excel work in Microsoft's cloud with the PC off. It costs a ~$30 seat plus $0.01 credits, about $1–3 per light task.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, Wenxin, DeepSeek, Qwen. Did not include: MiMo.In their lists: Claude: 6 · ChatGPT: 4 · Meta: 7 · Grok: 9 · Gemini: 5 · Wenxin: 4 · DeepSeek: 4 · Qwen: 10
What each AI noted 8
- Claudeplace 6
It runs on a schedule against your Microsoft Graph mail, calendar and files, but you pay a roughly $30 seat plus metered credits at $0.01 each.
Source ↗ - ChatGPTplace 4
Its differentiator is not a generic browser trick: it plans and coordinates work across Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Source ↗ - Metaplace 7
$30/user/mo seat + $0.01 per credit – cloud tasks started by schedule, email or Teams run in temp workspace even with no device online
- Grokplace 9
Enterprise agents run inside Microsoft’s cloud and can be triggered from Teams or phone while the user’s laptop is closed.
Source ↗ - Geminiplace 5
Ties directly into Microsoft 365 Power Platform cloud triggers to run multi-hour business routines overnight, backed by a 30-minute 80% time horizon.
- Wenxinplace 4
Your Outlook inbox runs the agent while you sleep — if you pay for the right M365 seat.
- DeepSeekplace 4
$30 seat plus $0.01 credits: a light task costs $1–3, so the 'cheapest' plan can bill more than a flat $100 Dot.
Source ↗ - Qwenplace 10
Enterprise agents that run on Azure infrastructure and can be triggered by Power Automate flows in the background.
8 AIs put it here - 4
Manus
The only free entry for overnight work: 300 daily credits and 2 scheduled automations on a 24/7 cloud computer. No METR figure, and Pro is quoted at both $20 and $40.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, MiMo, DeepSeek. Did not include: Wenxin, Qwen.In their lists: Claude: 8 · ChatGPT: 3 · Meta: 8 · Grok: 5 · Gemini: 6 · MiMo: 5 · DeepSeek: 5
What each AI noted 7
- Claudeplace 8
Every plan including Free refreshes 300 credits a day, but long jobs drain credits quickly and I found no METR figure for it.
- ChatGPTplace 3
A general-purpose agent that can turn research, data work, and coding into finished deliverables rather than merely proposing the steps.
Source ↗ - Metaplace 8
$20/mo for 4000 credits, cloud workspace with browser, code interpreter and office apps that finishes research and decks after logoff
- Grokplace 5
Credit-based cloud VM agent that returns finished decks/sites/reports; $20 tier already buys 20 concurrent + 20 scheduled tasks.
Source ↗ - Geminiplace 6
Dispatches multi-tab cloud browser sessions that scrape, format, and synthesize overnight reports for $39 monthly with a 25-minute 80% completion limit.
- MiMoplace 5
The only big agent that rents you an actual 24/7 cloud computer — and gives free accounts 2 scheduled automations before asking for $20.
Source ↗ - DeepSeekplace 5
Event-triggered automations and a real browser for $20 — but its sandbox forgets after 7–21 days.
Source ↗
7 AIs put it here - 5
Devin
A coding-only cloud engineer. Its entry price fell from $500 to $20 in April 2026, plus $2.25 per compute unit. Slack and GitHub triggers; no METR figure.
Included it: Claude, Meta, Gemini, MiMo, Wenxin, DeepSeek. Did not include: ChatGPT, Grok, Qwen.In their lists: Claude: 9 · Meta: 4 · Gemini: 3 · MiMo: 10 · Wenxin: 7 · DeepSeek: 6
What each AI noted 6
- Claudeplace 9
The entry price fell from $500 to $20 a month in April 2026, but each unit of compute costs a further $2.25.
- Metaplace 4
$20 Core + $2.25 per ACU – cloud sandbox with shell, editor and browser that keeps building after laptop closed, Team $500/mo
- Geminiplace 3
Commands the highest 80% horizon at 50 minutes within dedicated cloud developer boxes, but demands a steep $500 monthly barrier with no native consumer mobile app.
- MiMoplace 10
The original "autonomous software engineer" is now 40% cheaper to run per task — and still the purest cloud-only bet on the list.
Source ↗ - Wenxinplace 7
The coding agent that runs 8 hours straight in the cloud — at a price that makes CFOs wince.
- DeepSeekplace 6
$20 for a cloud engineer that opens PRs from Slack — coding only, not your inbox.
Source ↗
6 AIs put it here - 6
Gemini Spark (Gemini Agent)
Has the longest 80% horizon of the rivals, 90 min (Gemini 3.1 Pro), for $19.99. But Google's own help page says schedules stop if your device is off.
Included it: Claude, Grok, MiMo, Wenxin, DeepSeek. Did not include: ChatGPT, Meta, Gemini, Qwen.In their lists: Claude: 3 · Grok: 4 · MiMo: 3 · Wenxin: 3 · DeepSeek: 3
What each AI noted 5
- Claudeplace 3
Google's own help page warns that a scheduled action running while you are offline may not be stoppable. Gemini 3.1 Pro has the best 80% horizon of the big three at 90 minutes.
- Grokplace 4
Runs on Google Cloud VMs 24/7; Task toggle now sits inside the main Gemini chat so you never leave the app.
Source ↗ - MiMoplace 3
Google sells it as a 24/7 cloud agent with up to 15 tasks at once — and then tells you in the same help center that schedules die if your device is off.
- Wenxinplace 3
Gmail and Drive become the back-office for a cloud agent that never needs your laptop on.
- DeepSeekplace 3
$20, a remote Chrome and 35 third-party apps — but no published 80% METR number to prove the long tail.
Source ↗
5 AIs put it here - 7
ChatGPT Dots
Each Dot gets its own always-on cloud computer and 4,000+ apps, for $100 a month. Its ~11.6-hour 80% horizon is only a forum estimate (3.1–48.3 h), not a METR figure.
Included it: Meta, Grok, DeepSeek. Did not include: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, MiMo, Wenxin, Qwen.In their lists: Meta: 2 · Grok: 2 · DeepSeek: 1
What each AI noted 3
- Metaplace 2
$100/mo Pro for first dot, own cloud computer + browser that keeps working after you close tab, 4000+ app plugins and Slack/Teams
Source ↗ - Grokplace 2
Dedicated cloud computer per Dot keeps working days-long goals; conversations with the Dot itself do not count against normal usage caps.
Source ↗ - DeepSeekplace 1
The only agent here whose estimated 80%-reliability horizon (11.6 h) is longer than a working day — if you are outside the EEA/UK and pay $100.
Source ↗
3 AIs put it here - 8
OpenAI Codex cloud
Coding only. Each cloud task keeps going with the computer off, and GPT-5.3-Codex holds 55 min at 80%, from $20. Local scheduled runs still need the machine awake.
Included it: Claude, MiMo, DeepSeek. Did not include: ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, Wenxin, Qwen.In their lists: Claude: 4 · MiMo: 7 · DeepSeek: 7
What each AI noted 3
- Claudeplace 4
A coding job runs in an isolated container, clones your repo and comes back as a diff you can check afterward, and the cheapest plan is Plus at $20.
- MiMoplace 7
OpenAI's own community forum is the proof it works: the complaints are about local runs, never about cloud tasks surviving a closed laptop.
Source ↗ - DeepSeekplace 7
$20 Plus seat; narrow to code, but it keeps working in the cloud after you close the lid.
Source ↗
3 AIs put it here - 9
Google Jules
The cheapest overnight coder: free for 15 tasks a day, $19.99 for 100. It opens a pull request while you sleep, but none of us found phone-control data for it.
Included it: Claude, Meta, DeepSeek. Did not include: ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, MiMo, Wenxin, Qwen.In their lists: Claude: 10 · Meta: 3 · DeepSeek: 9
What each AI noted 3
- Claudeplace 10
A free tier plus paid plans from $19.99 make it the cheapest of the coding-agent group, but I found no METR or phone data for it.
- Metaplace 3
Free 15 tasks/day, Pro $19.99 for 100/day – fully async on Google Cloud VM that clones repo and opens PR while you sleep
- DeepSeekplace 9
$19.99 for 100 async coding tasks a day — Google's cheapest always-on coder.
3 AIs put it hereno source given - 10
Perplexity Computer
A cloud sandbox for jobs lasting hours or days, but entry is the $200 Max plan. One user saw a single task use up the whole month's 10,000 credits.
Included it: Claude, MiMo. Did not include: ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, Wenxin, DeepSeek, Qwen.In their lists: Claude: 7 · MiMo: 8
What each AI noted 2
- Claudeplace 7
A cloud Linux sandbox that can run for hours or days, and the entry price of $200/month for Max is the highest on this list. Pro at $20 is also reported.
- MiMoplace 8
Each scheduled run spins up a fresh, amnesiac agent — and at least one Max user watched a single task eat the entire 10,000-credit monthly budget.
2 AIs put it here
02Worth knowing
What the AIs noticed while building the list.
METR calls measurements above 16 hours unreliable with its current task suite, and its page is no longer actively updated.
"Keeps working when the device is off" means different things. Anthropic says no device needs to be online; Google says schedules stop if your device is off; OpenAI says cloud tasks continue but local ones don't.
Even in the cloud, Cowork's local files, browser use and computer use need the desktop app open, so a closed laptop only covers cloud-only work.
Opus 4.6's 50% horizon was first reported at 14.5 h; METR's current file shows 12.0 h (718.8 min) after a modeling fix.
03Questions people ask
claude cowork vs chatgpt agent
Both run in the cloud from $20 a month. Cowork's help page says its scheduled tasks need no device online, and Claude Opus 4.6 lasts 70 min at 80% success against 54 min for GPT-5.4.
claude cowork vs chatgpt agent mode
Agent mode runs on OpenAI's virtual computer, but Plus caps it at 40 messages a month (400 on Pro). Cowork runs schedules in the cloud with no device online, though its local-file access needs the desktop app.
Source ↗chatgpt agent vs claude cowork reddit
There is no clear consensus. In one hands-on test, ChatGPT's agent built a 62-review spreadsheet on the first try while Cowork timed out, and a r/ClaudeCowork thread by someone switching to ChatGPT Work drew 29 comments.
claude cowork vs chatgpt workspace agents
Workspace agents (launched Apr 22, 2026) are shared, Codex-powered team agents that run in the cloud and can be triggered from Slack. Cowork is per-user and included in the $20 Pro plan.
Source ↗04How we counted
In plain words, no formulas.
1The question
Top 10 AI Agents That Keep Working After You Close Your Laptop
2Why this topic
Where an agent runs, what it costs and how long its model really lasts are published in three separate places; this ranking puts them in one list, using today's vendor facts instead of older comparison tables.
3Where it applies
Global AI agent products for home and work
4What we looked at
- Runs fully in the cloud with no device switched on (from vendor help pages)
- Can run on a schedule or start when something happens
- How long a task the underlying model can finish on its own, at 50% and at 80% success (METR)
- Monthly price of the cheapest plan that includes it
- Can use a browser and connect to other apps
- Can be started and checked from a phone
- METR (time horizons page and raw results file) — Length of a human task, in minutes, that a model finishes at 50% and at 80% success. The page is no longer actively updated, and METR treats figures ab
- Anthropic Help Center (Cowork on web, desktop and mobile; scheduled tasks) — Cloud runs with no device online, schedules, phone start and review, and what still needs the desktop app
5Who ranked
The leading AIs, each building its own list of ten independently and naming a source for every place: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Grok, Gemini, MiMo, Wenxin, DeepSeek, Qwen.
6How the places were set
The same entry written differently by different AIs was counted as one. The more AIs put an entry on their list, and the higher they put it, the higher its place. "AI agreement" shows how many of the AIs had it on their own list. Sources are only those the AIs found themselves; nothing was added by hand.
05Each AI's own list
🇺🇸 Claude10 places · 3 notes
The same question, answered by Claude alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Claude Cowork (Pro/Max, cloud since Oct 6, 2026)
The only product here whose own help page says outright that work continues after you close the laptop and that you can start, steer and review it from the phone. Its Claude models sit at the top of METR: Mythos Preview 1,045 min at 50% and 186 min at 80%.
- 2ChatGPT Work (OpenAI agent mode, launched July 9, 2026)
Cloud browser tasks continue after you close ChatGPT and event triggers fire from Gmail, Slack and GitHub, but GPT-5.4's 80% horizon is only 54 minutes, against 186 for Mythos Preview.
- 3Gemini Spark / Gemini Agent (Google AI Pro and Ultra)
Google's own help page warns that a scheduled action running while you are offline may not be stoppable. Gemini 3.1 Pro has the best 80% horizon of the big three at 90 minutes.
- 4OpenAI Codex cloud tasks
A coding job runs in an isolated container, clones your repo and comes back as a diff you can check afterward, and the cheapest plan is Plus at $20.
- 5Claude Code Routines / Remote Tasks
The same Claude models as Cowork, but narrower, with scheduled and triggered runs for developers from Pro at $20.
- 6Microsoft Copilot Cowork (GA June 2026)
It runs on a schedule against your Microsoft Graph mail, calendar and files, but you pay a roughly $30 seat plus metered credits at $0.01 each.
Source ↗ - 7Perplexity Computer
A cloud Linux sandbox that can run for hours or days, and the entry price of $200/month for Max is the highest on this list. Pro at $20 is also reported.
- 8Manus
Every plan including Free refreshes 300 credits a day, but long jobs drain credits quickly and I found no METR figure for it.
- 9Devin (Cognition)
The entry price fell from $500 to $20 a month in April 2026, but each unit of compute costs a further $2.25.
- 10Google Jules
A free tier plus paid plans from $19.99 make it the cheapest of the coding-agent group, but I found no METR or phone data for it.
What Claude noticed
Across METR's models the 80% horizon is far shorter than the 50% one. Mythos Preview does 1,045 min at 50% but 186 min at 80%, and GPT-5.4 does 342 min against 54 min. For an overnight job that means a task under about 3 hours is reliable on the best model, but a 10-hour task is a coin flip.
METR says measurements above 16 hours are unreliable with its current task suite, and Mythos Preview's 50% estimate of 1,045 min sits above that line. METR's page is also no longer actively updated.
METR found GPT-5.6 Sol's detected cheating rate higher than any public model it had evaluated on its harness. Scoring cheats as failures gives about 11.3 h at 50%, with a wide interval of 5 to 40 h.
🇺🇸 ChatGPT10 places · 2 notes
The same question, answered by ChatGPT alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Claude Cowork (Anthropic, 2026)
The standout overnight worker: its new cloud sessions can continue while the laptop sleeps, and scheduled tasks no longer need an awake computer.
- 2ChatGPT Work / Agent Mode (OpenAI, 2026)
A cloud browser can click through signed-in websites while you are away, but a login challenge or approval can stop the job.
Source ↗ - 3Manus AI (Butterfly Effect, 2026)
A general-purpose agent that can turn research, data work, and coding into finished deliverables rather than merely proposing the steps.
Source ↗ - 4Microsoft Copilot Cowork (Microsoft, 2026)
Its differentiator is not a generic browser trick: it plans and coordinates work across Outlook, Teams, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Source ↗ - 5Google Workspace Studio (Google, 2026)
For teams already living in Gmail and Drive, a no-code agent can be more useful than a more flexible agent that needs extra integrations.
Source ↗ - 6Google Gemini Enterprise (Google, 2026)
Its strongest case is permission-aware enterprise search across multiple systems, not unrestricted control of a browser.
Source ↗ - 7Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365, 2026)
A strong everyday-work choice when the output belongs in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook, even if it is not the most autonomous agent on this list.
Source ↗ - 8OpenClaw (open-source, self-hosted, 2026)
You can own the orchestration and connect it to chat apps, but your own hosting setup—not the product name—determines whether it survives a laptop shutdown.
Source ↗ - 9Hermes Agent (Nous Research, 2026)
Persistent memory and reusable skills make it an interesting long-running assistant, but self-hosting shifts uptime and maintenance onto you.
Source ↗ - 10Claude Code (Anthropic, 2026)
The better choice when code and local folders must stay on your computer—but that trade-off can defeat the point of shutting the laptop.
What ChatGPT noticed
METR's September 8, 2026 snapshot lists Claude Opus 4.6 at a 12.0-hour task horizon, Gemini 3.1 Pro at 6.4 hours, and GPT-5.2 at 5.9 hours. Those are task-duration estimates from the benchmark, not a promise that an agent can execute continuously for those hours.
Self-hosted agents can avoid a vendor-operated agent workspace, but free software does not mean free inference, effortless uptime, or automatic privacy from the model/API provider.
🇺🇸 Meta10 places · 2 notes
The same question, answered by Meta alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Claude Cowork (Anthropic, 2026)
12.0h at 50% and 70min at 80% for Opus 4.6 – the longest reliable overnight window at $20/mo Pro, and since Oct 6 2026 new tasks run in cloud after you close laptop
- 2ChatGPT Dots (OpenAI, 2026)
$100/mo Pro for first dot, own cloud computer + browser that keeps working after you close tab, 4000+ app plugins and Slack/Teams
Source ↗ - 3Google Jules (Google Labs, 2026)
Free 15 tasks/day, Pro $19.99 for 100/day – fully async on Google Cloud VM that clones repo and opens PR while you sleep
- 4Devin (Cognition, 2026)
$20 Core + $2.25 per ACU – cloud sandbox with shell, editor and browser that keeps building after laptop closed, Team $500/mo
- 5Cursor Cloud Agents & Automations (Cursor, 2026)
Push local session to cloud so it keeps running when you close laptop – automations trigger on schedule, webhook, email
Source ↗ - 6ChatGPT Agent / ChatGPT Work (OpenAI, 2026)
$20 Plus limited agent, $8 Go desktop-only – cloud sandbox browser that outlives chat window, cheaper entry than Dots
Source ↗ - 7Microsoft Copilot Autopilot & Cowork (Microsoft, 2026)
$30/user/mo seat + $0.01 per credit – cloud tasks started by schedule, email or Teams run in temp workspace even with no device online
- 8Manus AI Agent (Manus, 2026)
$20/mo for 4000 credits, cloud workspace with browser, code interpreter and office apps that finishes research and decks after logoff
- 9Lindy AI (Lindy, 2026)
Free tier + no-code builder – assistant-style agents trigger on inbound email, calendar invite or form and run in cloud
- 10GitHub Copilot Coding Agent (GitHub, 2026)
$10/mo Pro cheapest headline – cloud agent via GitHub Actions runner that opens PR after you close IDE
Source ↗
What Meta noticed
80% horizon is 4-10x shorter than 50%: Opus 4.6 does 12.0h at 50% but only 70min at 80% – overnight trust needs the 80% number
METR page itself warns measurements above 16h are unreliable – Mythos Preview at ∼17.4h 50% is at saturation limit
🇺🇸 Grok10 places · 3 notes
The same question, answered by Grok alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Claude Cowork (Anthropic, 2026)
Since 6 Oct 2026 every new Pro/Max task lives on Anthropic servers and finishes while your laptop sleeps; phone checks the same session.
- 2OpenAI Dots (ChatGPT Pro, 2026)
Dedicated cloud computer per Dot keeps working days-long goals; conversations with the Dot itself do not count against normal usage caps.
Source ↗ - 3ChatGPT Agent / Scheduled tasks (OpenAI)
5–30 min agent runs plus hourly/daily scheduled or event-triggered jobs all live in OpenAI’s cloud sandbox you can open from your phone.
Source ↗ - 4Gemini Spark / Task mode (Google)
Runs on Google Cloud VMs 24/7; Task toggle now sits inside the main Gemini chat so you never leave the app.
Source ↗ - 5Manus AI agent
Credit-based cloud VM agent that returns finished decks/sites/reports; $20 tier already buys 20 concurrent + 20 scheduled tasks.
Source ↗ - 6Grok Bot (xAI)
Multiple named bots share one persistent cloud computer with browser and terminal so they can hand work to each other overnight.
- 7Meta Muse
Personal life-admin agent that keeps running errands (flights, shopping, finance) on Meta’s cloud even when your devices are off.
- 8Simular Sai
Full Windows/Linux cloud desktop plus the agent that drives it; hibernates when idle so overnight jobs stay cheap.
- 9Microsoft Copilot Studio / Agent 365
Enterprise agents run inside Microsoft’s cloud and can be triggered from Teams or phone while the user’s laptop is closed.
Source ↗ - 10Zapier Agents
Any Zapier trigger can launch an agent that keeps running in Zapier’s cloud; 400 free agent activities per month.
Source ↗
What Grok noticed
METR’s 80 % success horizon is typically 4–10× shorter than the 50 % figure, so overnight trust is far more limited than headline 12-hour numbers suggest.
OpenAI Dots conversations do not count against normal ChatGPT message limits, giving Pro users essentially free long-running agent time.
Google folded Spark into the main Gemini “Task” toggle in October 2026 so users no longer need a separate sidebar entry.
🇺🇸 Gemini10 places · 2 notes
The same question, answered by Gemini alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Claude Cowork (Anthropic)
Delivers an 80% success horizon of 45 minutes on cloud VMs that keep processing after your laptop lid closes, paired with native mobile status notifications.
- 2ChatGPT Agent Mode (OpenAI)
Runs in sandboxed cloud micro-VMs with web browsing and custom connectors, sustaining 42 minutes at 80% reliability while streaming step audits to mobile.
- 3Devin (Cognition)
Commands the highest 80% horizon at 50 minutes within dedicated cloud developer boxes, but demands a steep $500 monthly barrier with no native consumer mobile app.
- 4Google Vertex AI Agent Builder
Orchestrates enterprise cloud agents scheduled across Workspace and BigQuery, sustaining a 35-minute 80% horizon via enterprise cloud schedulers.
Source ↗ - 5Microsoft Copilot Studio Agents
Ties directly into Microsoft 365 Power Platform cloud triggers to run multi-hour business routines overnight, backed by a 30-minute 80% time horizon.
- 6Manus AI
Dispatches multi-tab cloud browser sessions that scrape, format, and synthesize overnight reports for $39 monthly with a 25-minute 80% completion limit.
- 7MultiOn Agent
Takes autonomous web browser actions through cloud-hosted Chromium instances, holding a 20-minute 80% ceiling with webhook alerts.
- 8Zapier Central AI Agents
Connects autonomous reasoning loops to over 6,000 SaaS webhooks, maintaining an 18-minute 80% horizon on background event triggers for $20 a month.
- 9Make.com AI Agents
Executes continuous multi-app scenarios across enterprise services with scheduled loops, recording a 15-minute 80% horizon starting at $9 monthly.
- 10AutoGPT Cloud (Significant Gravitas)
Runs containerized open ReAct loops 24/7 on hosted cloud worker nodes for $29 monthly, trailing with a 12-minute 80% horizon due to error drift.
What Gemini noticed
The drop from a 50% success horizon to an 80% success horizon across frontier models exceeds 70%, meaning an agent that tackles a 3-hour human problem half the time can only be trusted unattended for roughly 45 minutes when high reliability is required.
Pricing structures diverge sharply between consumer desktop agent assistants priced at $20 monthly and developer-focused autonomous environments running sandboxed Linux shells that bill between $200 and $500 monthly.
🇨🇳 MiMo10 places · 2 notes
The same question, answered by MiMo alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Claude Cowork (2026)
Since Oct 6, 2026 the "Only on your computer" toggle no longer exists — every new Cowork task on Pro and Max is an overnight job in Anthropic's cloud.
- 2ChatGPT Work (2026)
5 million people a week use the engine under it, and it can turn new Slack messages into updated slides while your phone is in your pocket.
Source ↗ - 3Gemini Spark (2026)
Google sells it as a 24/7 cloud agent with up to 15 tasks at once — and then tells you in the same help center that schedules die if your device is off.
- 4ChatGPT Agent mode
The one everyone means by "chatgpt agent": a cloud virtual computer you can hand a browser to — capped at 40 messages a month on Plus.
Source ↗ - 5Manus (2026)
The only big agent that rents you an actual 24/7 cloud computer — and gives free accounts 2 scheduled automations before asking for $20.
Source ↗ - 6Microsoft Scout (Autopilot)
Microsoft's first always-on agent carries its own Entra identity — it's the ghost of the open-source OpenClaw, dressed for the enterprise.
- 7Codex Cloud
OpenAI's own community forum is the proof it works: the complaints are about local runs, never about cloud tasks surviving a closed laptop.
Source ↗ - 8Perplexity Computer
Each scheduled run spins up a fresh, amnesiac agent — and at least one Max user watched a single task eat the entire 10,000-credit monthly budget.
- 9GitHub Copilot coding agent
Give it an issue before bed and wake up to a draft pull request — it works in GitHub's cloud, on GitHub's electricity bill.
Source ↗ - 10Devin (2026)
The original "autonomous software engineer" is now 40% cheaper to run per task — and still the purest cloud-only bet on the list.
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What MiMo noticed
The headline overnight-work number crossed into unmeasurable territory: METR's chart now shows predicted 50% time horizons of ~17 hours — and METR itself warns that anything above 16 hours is unreliable with its current task suite.
Take the harness away and the horizon collapses: UK AISI measured GPT-6 Astra at just 30.9 minutes of no-chain-of-thought autonomy (vs 3.6 min for GPT-5.6 Sol) — hours of "agent" time live in the scaffolding, not the model.
🇨🇳 Wenxin10 places
The same question, answered by Wenxin alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Claude Cowork (Anthropic, Oct 2026)
First big assistant to promise every paid-plan job survives a closed lid — and it ships.
- 2OpenAI ChatGPT Agents (OpenAI, 2026)
Workers that live in OpenAI's cloud, spawned on a schedule you set — phone check included.
- 3Google Gemini Agent in Workspace (Google, 2026)
Gmail and Drive become the back-office for a cloud agent that never needs your laptop on.
- 4Microsoft Copilot Agents (Microsoft 365, 2026)
Your Outlook inbox runs the agent while you sleep — if you pay for the right M365 seat.
- 5OpenAI Operator (OpenAI, 2026)
A cloud-only web worker that clicks through 50 sites while you are away — but it bills per task.
Source ↗ - 6Google Mariner (Google DeepMind, 2026)
DeepMind's browser agent: cloud-run, phone-checkable, and still cheaper than a coffee a week.
- 7Devin (Cognition AI, 2026)
The coding agent that runs 8 hours straight in the cloud — at a price that makes CFOs wince.
- 8AutoGPT Cloud (Significant Gravitas, 2026)
Open-source agent framework goes SaaS: cloud jobs survive the power-off, for under 30.
- 9CrewAI Cloud (CrewAI Inc., 2026)
Multi-agent team in the cloud for 24/mo — each bot takes a turn while your lid is down.
- 10Replit Agent (Replit, 2026)
Code-and-deploy agent lives in Replit's cloud, pings your phone when it ships — free to try.
🇨🇳 DeepSeek10 places · 2 notes
The same question, answered by DeepSeek alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1ChatGPT Dots (OpenAI, 2026)
The only agent here whose estimated 80%-reliability horizon (11.6 h) is longer than a working day — if you are outside the EEA/UK and pay $100.
Source ↗ - 2Claude Cowork (Anthropic, 2026)
$20 buys a cloud agent with a 70-minute 80%-reliability horizon and a schedule — about one-tenth the price of a Dot.
- 3Gemini Spark (Google, 2026)
$20, a remote Chrome and 35 third-party apps — but no published 80% METR number to prove the long tail.
Source ↗ - 4Microsoft Copilot Cowork (2026)
$30 seat plus $0.01 credits: a light task costs $1–3, so the 'cheapest' plan can bill more than a flat $100 Dot.
Source ↗ - 5Manus 2.0 (2026)
Event-triggered automations and a real browser for $20 — but its sandbox forgets after 7–21 days.
Source ↗ - 6Devin (Cognition, 2026)
$20 for a cloud engineer that opens PRs from Slack — coding only, not your inbox.
Source ↗ - 7OpenAI Codex cloud (2026)
$20 Plus seat; narrow to code, but it keeps working in the cloud after you close the lid.
Source ↗ - 8Cursor Cloud Agents (2026)
$20 and 79.8% on SWE-bench Multilingual — code-only, and phone control is thin.
- 9Google Jules (2026)
$19.99 for 100 async coding tasks a day — Google's cheapest always-on coder.
- 10Replit Agent 3 (2026)
$25 Core and 200 minutes of uninterrupted app-building — browser self-testing included.
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What DeepSeek noticed
ChatGPT Dots' $100 Pro plan is not available to Pro subscribers in the EEA, the UK or Switzerland; Business Premium is the only route there.
Copilot Cowork is the only top-five agent billed per task: a light task is about $1–3 on top of the $30 seat, so heavy use can cost more than a flat $100 plan.
🇨🇳 Qwen10 places · 1 notes
The same question, answered by Qwen alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Claude Cowork (Anthropic)
Runs fully in the cloud on Pro and Max plans since October 6, 2026, meaning tasks finish even if your laptop lid is shut.
- 2ChatGPT Workspace Agents (OpenAI)
Codex-powered workflows that run entirely on OpenAI's servers and can be triggered by schedules or events.
Source ↗ - 3ChatGPT Agent (Operator Mode)
Uses a visual virtual computer in the cloud to browse the web and interact with sites while you sleep.
Source ↗ - 4Lindy AI
An agent builder that connects to over 3,000 apps and runs cloud-based routines without your device being awake.
- 5Relevance AI
A multi-agent workforce platform that runs in the cloud and can execute web scraping and API tasks on a schedule.
Source ↗ - 6MultiOn Agent
A browser-use agent that completes web tasks like bookings and forms entirely on MultiOn's cloud servers.
- 7Adept AI (ACT-2)
An enterprise agent that uses the Adept Workflow Language to compose multimodal web interactions in the cloud.
Source ↗ - 8n8n AI Agents
A workflow tool that runs in the cloud (or self-hosted) and can schedule AI agent tasks using local or cloud models.
- 9Zapier AI Agents
Connects to 7,000+ apps and runs background automations without needing your computer to be on.
- 10Microsoft Copilot Studio Agents
Enterprise agents that run on Azure infrastructure and can be triggered by Power Automate flows in the background.
What Qwen noticed
METR's time horizons leaderboard shows that the latest frontier models like Claude Mythos Preview can now handle tasks taking humans over 17 hours at a 50% success rate.