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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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Windsurf Editor
✓ verifiedFree trial
AI-powered code editor with agentic workflows for developers.
3.3M 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
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PearAI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI code editor that routes coding tasks to top-performing models and includes an agent for building and fixing projects.
37K visits/mo
Pricing
Pro: $10/mo
Pro Plus: $20/mo
Pro Max: $40/mo
No public pricing
Free: $0/mo (BYOK, 30 free interactions)
AutoComplete Add-on / BYOK Pro: $8/mo per seat ($6.67 annual)
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦AI-powered code completion and suggestions
- ✦Automated lint fixing
- ✦Cascade agent for advanced coding assistance
- ✦Integrated app building and deployment
- ✦MCP server support for custom tools
- ✦Terminal command integration
- ✦Memory of codebase structure and workflow
- ✦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
- ✦Automatic routing to best-performing AI coding models
- ✦Coding agent for building features and fixing bugs
- ✦Free desktop download
- ✦Open-source codebase
- ✦Project scaffolding for new codebases
- ✦Deployment integration (planned)
Use cases
- →Automating refactors, tests, and migrations
- →Running competing AI coding agents
- →Building apps from prompts
- →Integrating agents into CI/CD
- →Accelerating software development by automating repetitive tasks
- →Reducing onboarding time for new developers
- →Improving code quality and reducing tech debt
- →Streamlining the app building and deployment process
- →Enhancing developer productivity by keeping them in a state of flow
- →Code generation, refactoring and debugging
- →Control AI spend with your own keys
- →Switch between frontier models per task
- →Keep code private and data-sovereign
- →Developers who currently copy-paste code between ChatGPT/Claude and their editor
- →Makers wanting one subscription instead of several AI tool subscriptions
- →Engineers learning new languages/frameworks with AI assistance
- →Teams wanting an open-source AI-native code editor
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