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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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MarsCode
✓ verifiedFree
AI-powered IDE with code completion, generation, explanation and debugging, plus a cloud dev environment, for developers.
69K visits/mo
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Codeflying
✓ verifiedFreemium
Vibe-coding builder creating full-stack apps by chatting with AI.
118K visits/mo
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BlackBox AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI coding platform routing many agents and models through one encrypted, usage-based endpoint with CLI, IDE and multi-agent execution.
3.9M visits/mo
Pricing
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Free: 0$
Basic: 25$
Advanced: 40$
Premium: 200$
Pro: $10/mo
Pro Plus: $20/mo
Pro Max: $40/mo
Core features
- ✦Fast tensor operations
- ✦Differentiable tensors for gradient-based optimization
- ✦Network connectivity
- ✦Integration with Bun and Flashlight
- ✦Support for GPU computation with CUDA (Linux) and CPU computation (macOS)
- ✦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 snippet generation
- ✦Natural-language code generation
- ✦Code explanation and AI Q&A
- ✦Automated bug detection and fixes
- ✦Zero-config cloud development environment
- ✦Project creation from templates or Git
- ✦CodeFlying enables full-stack app creation via chat in minutes
- ✦Unified encrypted inference endpoint
- ✦Multi-agent parallel execution
- ✦CLI, IDE, and API access
- ✦App builder and remote coding agents
- ✦Chairman LLM output evaluation
- ✦35+ IDE integrations
Use cases
- →Creating and manipulating datasets
- →Training small machine learning models
- →Implementing advanced training and inference logic
- →Building applications that require tensor computations
- →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
- →Writing and completing code faster with AI
- →Onboarding to unfamiliar codebases
- →Debugging and optimizing code
- →Spinning up dev environments in the browser
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- →Automating refactors, tests, and migrations
- →Running competing AI coding agents
- →Building apps from prompts
- →Integrating agents into CI/CD
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