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Project IDX by Google
✓ verifiedFree
Google's cloud-based, AI-assisted development environment, now rebranded and merged into Firebase Studio.
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Refraction.dev
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI coding assistant for editors and IDEs that explains, refactors, documents, and generates code across 56 languages.
2.8K visits/mo
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Code Autopilot
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI GitHub companion that summarizes PRs, answers questions and proposes fixes inside issues and pull requests.
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Gemini Code Assist
✓ verifiedFreemium
Google's AI coding assistant for code completion, generation, chat and review across IDEs and GitHub.
559K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Hobby: Free (10 code generations, 1 user)
Pro: $8/mo (unlimited generations, editor extensions)
Team: $14/user/mo (multiple members, shared history)
Free trial available
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Cloud-based IDE accessible from the browser
- ✦AI-assisted coding
- ✦Cross-platform app development
- ✦Preconfigured workspaces and templates
- ✦Now part of Firebase Studio
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- ✦Bug detection and fix suggestions
- ✦Code and CSS framework conversion
- ✦Unit test and documentation generation
- ✦Regex, SQL query, and CI/CD pipeline generation
- ✦Code explanation and style checking
- ✦Editor extensions for VS Code, Sublime, JetBrains, Visual Studio
- ✦Chat inside GitHub issues and PRs
- ✦Task-to-implementation plans with code
- ✦Automatic bug-fix suggestions
- ✦Pull-request summaries for faster review
- ✦Full-codebase context
- ✦GitHub-native integration
- ✦AI code completion and suggestions
- ✦Natural-language code generation
- ✦In-IDE chat assistance
- ✦AI code review
- ✦IDE integrations (VS Code, JetBrains, etc.)
- ✦GitHub integration
Use cases
- →Building apps from anywhere in the browser
- →Prototyping with AI assistance
- →Developing cross-platform applications
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- →Generating unit tests for existing functions
- →Refactoring legacy code to modern practices
- →Producing inline documentation automatically
- →Learning new programming languages or concepts via AI explanations
- →Speeding up pull-request reviews
- →Implementing features from task descriptions
- →Debugging with AI-proposed solutions
- →Answering questions about a repo
- →Boosting a solo developer's output
- →Speeding up coding with AI completions
- →Generating code from plain-language prompts
- →Getting in-editor help and explanations
- →Reviewing pull requests with AI
- →Understanding unfamiliar codebases
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