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Code Arena
✓ verifiedFree
Side-by-side arena to compare AI coding models and build multi-file apps, with a public leaderboard and battle mode.
35M visits/mo201 saves
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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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CodeGPT
✓ verifiedFreemium
IDE coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains that uses your own API keys across 15+ model providers, with agentic mode and autocomplete.
262K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Pro: $10/mo
Pro Plus: $20/mo
Pro Max: $40/mo
Free: $0/mo (BYOK, 30 free interactions)
AutoComplete Add-on / BYOK Pro: $8/mo per seat ($6.67 annual)
Core features
- ✦Head-to-head model comparison
- ✦Battle mode matchups
- ✦Public model leaderboard
- ✦Multi-file app generation
- ✦File uploads as input
- ✦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
- ✦BYOK access to 15+ model providers
- ✦Agentic planning-then-build mode
- ✦AI autocomplete
- ✦MCP connections to external systems
- ✦Custom rules and live context tracking
- ✦Local models via Ollama/LM Studio
- ✦VS Code and JetBrains plugins
Use cases
- →Choosing the best coding model
- →Benchmarking AI code quality
- →Prototyping small apps
- →Automating refactors, tests, and migrations
- →Running competing AI coding agents
- →Building apps from prompts
- →Integrating agents into CI/CD
- →Code generation, refactoring and debugging
- →Control AI spend with your own keys
- →Switch between frontier models per task
- →Keep code private and data-sovereign
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