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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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HumanLayer
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI coding platform and IDE that orchestrates multiple agent sessions and lets teams plug in their own AI subscriptions.
👁 197K/mo
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AskYourDatabase
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI chatbot that turns plain-English questions into SQL, letting non-technical teams query and visualize their databases.
👁 10K/mo♥ 9.0K
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Desktop Ultimate: $49/mo
Website Chatbot Scale: $149/mo (1,000 questions/mo)
Website Chatbot Established: $329/mo (1,500 questions/mo)
Core features
- ✦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 coding IDE with agent orchestration
- ✦Run and manage multiple agent sessions
- ✦Task, artifact and collaboration tools
- ✦Bring-your-own AI subscription or API keys
- ✦Cloud-scale agent execution
- ✦Natural-language to SQL queries
- ✦Automatic data visualization
- ✦Natural-language dashboard builder
- ✦Works with many major databases
- ✦Embeddable chatbot widget
- ✦Fine-grained access control and self-hosting
Use cases
- →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
- →Shipping code faster with AI agents
- →Coordinating agent work across a team
- →Managing tasks and artifacts in one place
- →Running many parallel agent sessions
- →Ad-hoc queries for non-technical staff
- →Building dashboards without SQL
- →Embedding data chat for customers
- →Exploring production databases safely
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