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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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PseudoEditor
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free browser-based pseudocode editor and compiler with exam-board syntax modes, aimed at computer science students and teachers.
57K visits/mo16K saves
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MarsCode
✓ verifiedFree
AI-powered IDE with code completion, generation, explanation and debugging, plus a cloud dev environment, for developers.
69K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Pro: $10/mo
Pro Plus: $20/mo
Pro Max: $40/mo
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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
- ✦Syntax highlighting and error checking for pseudocode
- ✦Cloud-based project saving across devices
- ✦Built-in pseudocode compiler for instant execution
- ✦Toggleable syntax rules for AQA, OCR, CIE, Edexcel and IB
- ✦AI tutor and code-to-language converters (Pro tier)
- ✦Bulk institutional licensing for schools and universities
- ✦AI code completion and snippet generation
- ✦Natural-language code generation
- ✦Code explanation and AI Q&A
- ✦Automated bug detection and fixes
- ✦Zero-config cloud development environment
- ✦Project creation from templates or Git
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
- →Students learning programming logic before writing real code
- →Teachers grading pseudocode assignments to exam-board specs
- →Exam preparation for computer science courses
- →Converting pseudocode into Python, C++ and other languages
- →Writing and completing code faster with AI
- →Onboarding to unfamiliar codebases
- →Debugging and optimizing code
- →Spinning up dev environments in the browser
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