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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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Cody
✓ verifiedPaid
Enterprise AI coding assistant that pulls context from an entire codebase to power chat, code edits and debugging.
👁 245K/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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Firebase Studio
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Browser-based AI dev workspace by Google for full-stack apps; being sunset on 22 Mar 2027, no new workspaces.
👁 531K/mo
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Enterprise: starting at $16K (includes AI feature credits, scales with team size)
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Core features
- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
- ✦Codebase-aware developer chat
- ✦AI code completions and inline edits
- ✦Customizable and shareable prompts
- ✦Automatic bug identification and debugging help
- ✦Context filters to exclude sensitive repos
- ✦Integrates with major code hosts and IDEs
- ✦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
- ✦Cloud workspaces for full-stack development
- ✦App Prototyping agent from natural language
- ✦Gemini AI for coding, debugging and docs
- ✦Repo import from GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket
- ✦Web previews and Android emulators
- ✦Deploy to Firebase App Hosting, Hosting or Cloud Run
Use cases
- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
- →Engineers asking questions about an unfamiliar large codebase
- →Teams standardizing common coding tasks with shared prompts
- →Developers debugging errors faster with AI-assisted context
- →Enterprises running large-scale code migrations
- →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
- →Prototyping apps from a prompt or mockup
- →Building full-stack apps in the browser
- →Collaborating and sharing preview URLs
- →Deploying and monitoring apps quickly
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