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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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Kombai
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI design engineer that designs UIs on a canvas and ships production frontend code in your own stack.
156K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0 per user/mo (60 agent credits)
Pro: $24/user/mo (500 credits)
Team: $40/user/mo
No public pricing
Free: $0 (300 credits/month)
Pro: $20/month (2,000 credits)
Team: $40/user/month
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
- ✦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
- ✦Design canvas integrated directly into the IDE (VSCode/Cursor)
- ✦Agent-driven MCP canvas based on open design format
- ✦AI Multiplayer for generating screens and flows in parallel
- ✦Design as Code: Design files live in repo, versioned with Git
- ✦Pixel-perfect vector-to-code workflow
- ✦Design UIs on an infinite canvas
- ✦Production frontend code in your stack (400+ libraries)
- ✦Reuses your components, tokens, and hooks
- ✦In-browser editing with DevTools context
- ✦Design and code stay synced in your repo
- ✦Asset and animation generation
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
- →Convert designs to production code
- →Let non-developers edit pages visually
- →Manage content with a headless CMS
- →Collaborate across design, PM and engineering
- →Designing new products and features with pixel-perfect precision without leaving the development environment.
- →Eliminating design handoffs by having design and code live under one roof.
- →Accelerating workflow by using AI multiplayer to generate UI components and flows.
- →Shipping production-ready apps with guaranteed code-design alignment.
- →Integrating existing design systems directly from the codebase.
- →Turning designs into production frontend code
- →Building landing pages and product UIs
- →Refining UI directly in the browser
- →Keeping design and code in sync
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