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  "@id": "https://www.requesty.ai/data/coding-agent-streaming-adoption-oct-2026",
  "id": "coding-agent-streaming-oct26",
  "slug": "coding-agent-streaming-adoption-oct-2026",
  "title": "Streaming adoption by coding agent, October 2026",
  "shortTitle": "Agent streaming adoption",
  "topic": "agentic",
  "abstract": "Do coding agents stream their responses? In October 2026 8 of 12 agents streamed nearly every call. Claude Code streamed the least at 87%.",
  "whyItMatters": "Streaming lets an agent show progress and cancel early. Agents that stream less often run background or batch calls.",
  "questions": [
    "Do coding agents use streaming?",
    "Which coding agent streams the least?",
    "How much reasoning do coding agents use?"
  ],
  "period": "Oct 2026",
  "updated": "2026-11-11",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "caveats": [
    "Reasoning intensity is reasoning tokens divided by output tokens."
  ],
  "keyFindings": [
    "GitHub Copilot: 100% streamed, 32% reasoning.",
    "Cursor: 100% streamed, 39% reasoning.",
    "Zed: 100% streamed, 41% reasoning.",
    "Roo Code: 100% streamed, 5% reasoning.",
    "Kilo Code: 100% streamed, 38% reasoning."
  ],
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      "key": "label",
      "label": "Agent",
      "unit": "count"
    },
    {
      "key": "streamingPct",
      "label": "Streaming",
      "unit": "percent"
    },
    {
      "key": "reasoningIntensity",
      "label": "Reasoning intensity",
      "unit": "percent"
    },
    {
      "key": "cacheHitPct",
      "label": "Cache hit rate",
      "unit": "percent"
    }
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "label": "GitHub Copilot",
      "streamingPct": 1,
      "reasoningIntensity": 0.3222,
      "cacheHitPct": 0.9545
    },
    {
      "label": "Cursor",
      "streamingPct": 1,
      "reasoningIntensity": 0.3914,
      "cacheHitPct": 0.9542
    },
    {
      "label": "Zed",
      "streamingPct": 0.9999,
      "reasoningIntensity": 0.4139,
      "cacheHitPct": 0.9198
    },
    {
      "label": "Roo Code",
      "streamingPct": 0.9999,
      "reasoningIntensity": 0.0483,
      "cacheHitPct": 0.9557
    },
    {
      "label": "Kilo Code",
      "streamingPct": 0.9997,
      "reasoningIntensity": 0.382,
      "cacheHitPct": 0.9382
    },
    {
      "label": "Zoo Code",
      "streamingPct": 0.9997,
      "reasoningIntensity": 0.2566,
      "cacheHitPct": 0.8966
    },
    {
      "label": "Cline",
      "streamingPct": 0.9995,
      "reasoningIntensity": 0.2312,
      "cacheHitPct": 0.96
    },
    {
      "label": "Pi",
      "streamingPct": 0.998,
      "reasoningIntensity": 0.4213,
      "cacheHitPct": 0.9458
    },
    {
      "label": "OpenCode",
      "streamingPct": 0.9577,
      "reasoningIntensity": 0.3695,
      "cacheHitPct": 0.9375
    },
    {
      "label": "Hermes Agent",
      "streamingPct": 0.9022,
      "reasoningIntensity": 0.4463,
      "cacheHitPct": 0.9278
    },
    {
      "label": "Qwen Code",
      "streamingPct": 0.8842,
      "reasoningIntensity": 0.3568,
      "cacheHitPct": 0.8187
    },
    {
      "label": "Claude Code",
      "streamingPct": 0.8712,
      "reasoningIntensity": 0.3192,
      "cacheHitPct": 0.8522
    }
  ],
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  "citation": {
    "apa": "Requesty (2026). Streaming adoption by coding agent, October 2026. Requesty Data. https://www.requesty.ai/data/coding-agent-streaming-adoption-oct-2026",
    "bibtex": "@misc{requesty_coding_agent_streaming_adoption_oct_2026,\n  author       = {{Requesty}},\n  title        = {Streaming adoption by coding agent, October 2026},\n  year         = {2026},\n  howpublished = {\\url{https://www.requesty.ai/data/coding-agent-streaming-adoption-oct-2026}},\n  note         = {Requesty Data}\n}"
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