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✓ verifiedFreemium

Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.

775K visits/mo
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Code Autopilot
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI GitHub companion that summarizes PRs, answers questions and proposes fixes inside issues and pull requests.

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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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Project IDX by Google
✓ verifiedFree

Google's cloud-based, AI-assisted development environment, now rebranded and merged into Firebase Studio.

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BlackBox AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI coding platform routing many agents and models through one encrypted, usage-based endpoint with CLI, IDE and multi-agent execution.

3.9M visits/mo
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Pro: $10/mo
Pro Plus: $20/mo
Pro Max: $40/mo
Core features
  • Open-source AI code assistant
  • Customizable autocomplete
  • In-editor AI chat
  • Community-built coding agent
  • Chat inside GitHub issues and PRs
  • Task-to-implementation plans with code
  • Automatic bug-fix suggestions
  • Pull-request summaries for faster review
  • Full-codebase context
  • GitHub-native integration
  • 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-based IDE accessible from the browser
  • AI-assisted coding
  • Cross-platform app development
  • Preconfigured workspaces and templates
  • Now part of Firebase Studio
  • Unified encrypted inference endpoint
  • Multi-agent parallel execution
  • CLI, IDE, and API access
  • App builder and remote coding agents
  • Chairman LLM output evaluation
  • 35+ IDE integrations
Use cases
  • Get AI code completions while coding
  • Ask questions about code in the editor
  • Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
  • Speeding up pull-request reviews
  • Implementing features from task descriptions
  • Debugging with AI-proposed solutions
  • Answering questions about a repo
  • Boosting a solo developer's output
  • 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
  • Building apps from anywhere in the browser
  • Prototyping with AI assistance
  • Developing cross-platform applications
  • Automating refactors, tests, and migrations
  • Running competing AI coding agents
  • Building apps from prompts
  • Integrating agents into CI/CD
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