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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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Bind AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI coding platform pairing a browser IDE, multi-model chat and an AI website/app builder with GitHub sync and instant deploy.
100K visits/mo
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Lovable
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI app builder that turns chat prompts into working web apps and sites, with credit-based build and deploy.
35M visits/mo69K saves
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Miniapps.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium
Marketplace and no-code builder for AI mini-apps and chatbots, with one-place access to many models and embeds.
2.3M visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0/mo (Copilot, own API keys, up to 2 projects)
Premium: $18/mo (multi-model chat, 100 agent queries)
Scale: from $39/mo (higher limits, unlimited projects)
No public pricing
Free: $0 (100 credits/day, basic models)
Standard: $9.99/mo (8,000 credits, all models)
Pro: $39/mo (35,000 credits, API and embeds)
Core features
- ✦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
- ✦Natural language to SQL conversion
- ✦Built-in AI IDE and code generator
- ✦Access to 15+ AI models in one platform
- ✦AI website/app builder from prompts
- ✦GitHub repository sync
- ✦Runs Python, React, Next.js and Node apps
- ✦Instant deploy to Vercel
- ✦Bring-your-own API keys for higher limits
- ✦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
- ✦Access to many AI models in one place
- ✦Create no-code AI mini-apps and chatbots
- ✦Community app/game marketplace
- ✦Embed apps on websites
- ✦Image, audio and video generation apps
Use cases
- →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
- →Generating SQL queries from text descriptions.
- →Building full-stack web apps with AI
- →Generating landing pages and WordPress plugins
- →Iterating on a synced GitHub codebase
- →Prototyping app clones quickly
- →Build web apps without coding
- →Prototype product ideas quickly
- →Create landing pages and sites
- →Ship internal tools
- →Building custom AI chatbots
- →Discovering community AI apps
- →Embedding AI apps on a site
- →Generating images, music and text
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