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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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Builder.io
✓ verifiedFreemium
Visual development platform with AI design-to-code, a visual editor and headless CMS so teams and agents ship UI in real code.
806K visits/mo
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Banani
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI copilot that turns text or references into editable, multi-screen UI prototypes exportable to Figma or code.
419K visits/mo13K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
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Free: $0 per user/mo (60 agent credits)
Pro: $24/user/mo (500 credits)
Team: $40/user/mo
No public pricing
Free trial available
Core features
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- ✦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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- ✦AI design-to-code (Figma to code)
- ✦Visual editor tied to your components
- ✦Headless/visual CMS
- ✦AI agents (Builder-Agent) that open PRs
- ✦Integrations: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Figma, VS Code
- ✦Roles, reviews and collaboration
- ✦Text-to-UI prototype generation
- ✦Design from image or Figma references
- ✦Interactive multi-screen prototypes
- ✦Conversational AI editing
- ✦Export to Figma, HTML/CSS, images
- ✦MCP access for coding agents
Use cases
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- →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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- →Convert designs to production code
- →Let non-developers edit pages visually
- →Manage content with a headless CMS
- →Collaborate across design, PM and engineering
- →Rapid UI wireframing
- →Prototyping product screens
- →Recreating a reference UI
- →Handing designs to developers
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