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✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.
775K visits/mo
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Kiro AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Kiro is a spec-driven agentic coding tool for IDE, CLI and web that turns prompts into specs and catches bugs with property-based tests.
3.8M visits/mo
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Sherpa Coder
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VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.
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Vespa
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Open-source AI search and vector database platform for building large-scale search, RAG, and recommendation systems.
Pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0/mo (50 credits)
Pro: $20/user/mo (1,000 credits)
Pro+: $40/user/mo (2,000 credits)
Pro Max: $100/user/mo (5,000 credits)
Power: $200/user/mo (10,000 credits)
No public pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
- ✦Spec-driven development (requirements, design, tasks)
- ✦Parallel agents, local or cloud
- ✦Property-based and correctness testing
- ✦Works in IDE, CLI, web and mobile
- ✦Multiple models (Claude, open-weight, Auto)
- ✦Headless CLI for CI/CD
- ✦Context from tools like Figma and Terraform
- ✦in-editor chat with OpenAI assistants
- ✦workspace source-code context sharing
- ✦support for custom, user-defined assistants
- ✦secure management of the user's OpenAI account
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- ✦Combined vector, text, and structured search
- ✦Distributed machine-learned ranking at query time
- ✦Streaming search mode for cost-efficient personal/private data
- ✦Support for retrieval-augmented generation pipelines
- ✦Continuous deployment and automated scaling
- ✦Open-source core with a managed cloud option
Use cases
- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
- →Turning prompts into maintainable, spec-matched code
- →Catching bugs unit tests miss
- →Reviewing PRs and fixing bugs in CI/CD
- →getting coding help without switching out of VS Code
- →using a personalized OpenAI assistant tuned to a project
- →quick in-editor Q&A while writing code
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- →Building large-scale enterprise search engines
- →Powering RAG pipelines that need strong retrieval relevance
- →Building recommendation and ad-targeting systems
- →Search over personal/private data at lower indexing cost
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