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✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.
👁 775K/mo
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The New GitBook
✓ verifiedFreemium
Documentation platform for publishing accurate, AI-ready docs sites, with Git sync and an MCP server for AI tools.
👁 653K/mo♥ 2.9K
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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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Gemini Code Assist
✓ verifiedFreemium
Google's AI coding assistant for code completion, generation, chat and review across IDEs and GitHub.
👁 559K/mo
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Core features
- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
- ✦Publish structured documentation sites
- ✦Git sync for docs-as-code workflows
- ✦AI setup agent to build and import docs
- ✦GitBook MCP server for AI access
- ✦Enterprise controls
- ✦Free tier to start
- ✦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
- ✦AI code completion and suggestions
- ✦Natural-language code generation
- ✦In-IDE chat assistance
- ✦AI code review
- ✦IDE integrations (VS Code, JetBrains, etc.)
- ✦GitHub integration
Use cases
- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
- →Publish product and API documentation
- →Maintain docs-as-code with Git sync
- →Make docs consumable by AI assistants
- →Import existing docs into a hosted site
- →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
- →Speeding up coding with AI completions
- →Generating code from plain-language prompts
- →Getting in-editor help and explanations
- →Reviewing pull requests with AI
- →Understanding unfamiliar codebases
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