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Coder
✓ verifiedFreemium
Self-hosted cloud development environments and AI-agent governance, letting enterprises run coding agents on their own infrastructure.
👁 208K/mo♥ 41
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Sherpa Coder
✓ verifiedFree
VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.
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Angular.dev
✓ verifiedFree
Google's open-source TypeScript framework for building scalable web apps, featuring signals, reactivity and first-party tooling.
👁 1.1M/mo
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Windsurf Editor
✓ verifiedFree trial
AI-powered code editor with agentic workflows for developers.
👁 3.3M/mo
Pricing
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Core features
- ✦Self-hosted workspaces with desktop and web IDEs
- ✦Coder Agents run coding agents on isolated infrastructure
- ✦AI Governance gateway for LLM usage control
- ✦SSO (OpenID Connect) and role/group sync
- ✦Audit logging and resource quotas
- ✦Multi-organization access controls
- ✦High availability and workspace proxies
- ✦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
- ✦Signals-based fine-grained reactivity
- ✦Built-in control flow and deferrable views
- ✦Server-side rendering and hydration
- ✦First-party routing, forms and dependency injection
- ✦AI-forward tooling and MCP resources
- ✦In-browser tutorials and playground
- ✦AI-powered code completion and suggestions
- ✦Automated lint fixing
- ✦Cascade agent for advanced coding assistance
- ✦Integrated app building and deployment
- ✦MCP server support for custom tools
- ✦Terminal command integration
- ✦Memory of codebase structure and workflow
Use cases
- →Standardize developer environments
- →Run AI coding agents securely on-prem
- →Enforce governance and compliance
- →Cut VDI costs
- →Speed up developer onboarding
- →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
- →Building scalable single-page apps
- →Enterprise web application development
- →Performance-critical front ends
- →Learning modern web development
- →Accelerating software development by automating repetitive tasks
- →Reducing onboarding time for new developers
- →Improving code quality and reducing tech debt
- →Streamlining the app building and deployment process
- →Enhancing developer productivity by keeping them in a state of flow
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