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GitLoop
✓ verifiedFree trial
AI codebase assistant that chats with your repos to search, debug, review PRs, and generate docs and unit tests.
👁 11K/mo♥ 2.7K
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CodeGPT
✓ verifiedFreemium
IDE coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains that uses your own API keys across 15+ model providers, with agentic mode and autocomplete.
👁 262K/mo
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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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Magic Patterns
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI prototyping tool that generates UI matching your design system, letting product teams test features fast.
👁 242K/mo♥ 3.8K
Pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
Free: $0/mo (BYOK, 30 free interactions)
AutoComplete Add-on / BYOK Pro: $8/mo per seat ($6.67 annual)
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No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Chat with your repositories
- ✦Natural-language codebase search
- ✦Fast code indexing
- ✦AI pull-request and commit review
- ✦Automated documentation generation
- ✦AI unit-test generation
- ✦BYOK access to 15+ model providers
- ✦Agentic planning-then-build mode
- ✦AI autocomplete
- ✦MCP connections to external systems
- ✦Custom rules and live context tracking
- ✦Local models via Ollama/LM Studio
- ✦VS Code and JetBrains plugins
- ✦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 UI generation from prompts
- ✦Match existing styling and design systems
- ✦Rapid, high-fidelity prototyping
- ✦Live team editing and sharing
- ✦Enterprise security and compliance
Use cases
- →Onboard new developers to a codebase
- →Resolve bugs faster
- →Generate docs and tests automatically
- →Review pull requests with AI
- →Code generation, refactoring and debugging
- →Control AI spend with your own keys
- →Switch between frontier models per task
- →Keep code private and data-sovereign
- →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
- →Prototype new product features
- →Test designs with customers
- →Build design-system-consistent mockups
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