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✓ verifiedFreemium

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

👁 775K/mo
Sherpa Coder
✓ verifiedFree

VS Code extension letting developers chat with their own custom OpenAI assistants without leaving the editor.

MarsCode
✓ verifiedFree

AI-powered IDE with code completion, generation, explanation and debugging, plus a cloud dev environment, for developers.

👁 69K/mo
Lovable
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI app builder that turns chat prompts into working web apps and sites, with credit-based build and deploy.

👁 35M/mo69K
Base44
✓ verifiedFreemium

No-code AI platform that builds full-stack apps, websites and agents from plain-language prompts with hosting built in.

👁 18M/mo
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Free: $0
Starter: $16/mo
Builder: $40/mo
Pro: $80/mo
Elite: $160/mo
Core features
  • Open-source AI code assistant
  • Customizable autocomplete
  • In-editor AI chat
  • Community-built coding agent
  • 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 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
  • Chat-to-app and website generation
  • Real-time prototype building
  • One-click deploy and hosting
  • Templates to start projects
  • Credit-based building with shared workspaces
  • You own your code and data
  • Prompt-to-app full-stack generation
  • Built-in backend, database and auth
  • One-click integrations (Slack, Notion, HubSpot, etc.)
  • Instant hosting and custom domains
  • Superagents for automated workflows
  • GitHub sync and code export
Use cases
  • Get AI code completions while coding
  • Ask questions about code in the editor
  • Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
  • 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
  • Writing and completing code faster with AI
  • Onboarding to unfamiliar codebases
  • Debugging and optimizing code
  • Spinning up dev environments in the browser
  • Build web apps without coding
  • Prototype product ideas quickly
  • Create landing pages and sites
  • Ship internal tools
  • Building internal tools and dashboards
  • Launching websites and landing pages
  • Creating customer portals and CRMs
  • Deploying AI agents that automate tasks
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