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CodebaseChat
✓ verifiedFreemium

Connects Git repos to answer plain-English questions about your code with file references and dependency context.

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Augment Code
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Agentic coding platform (Cosmos) that runs software-dev agents at org scale, using a codebase context engine to cut token cost.

544K visits/mo
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Side Reader
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Browser extension that adds a PDF viewer/chat sidebar to ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek for reading and querying documents.

341 visits/mo
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Readable
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Instant English-to-Japanese PDF translation preserving layout; useful focused tool.

87K visits/mo177 saves
Pricing
Starter: $0 (1 repo, 50 questions/mo)
Pro: $12/mo (10 repos, unlimited questions)
Team: $49/mo (unlimited repos, SSO)
Business: $100/mo flat (up to 50 seats, $100 usage included)

Free trial available

Free: $0/mo (limited uploads and file size)
Lifetime: $29 one-time (higher upload limits, capture-and-ask, custom prompts)
Pro Standard (Yearly): 800 /month
Pro Premium (Yearly): 4,000 /month
for Business: Contact for Pricing
Core features
  • Natural-language search across a codebase
  • Architecture explanations and dependency graphs
  • Bug hunter that traces issues across files
  • AI code review before opening a PR
  • Automatic documentation generation
  • Multi-repo support via OAuth
  • Context Engine for codebase understanding
  • Agents across the full SDLC
  • Model routing / bring-your-own-keys
  • Automated code review and test coverage
  • CLI, MCP and native tool integrations
  • Enterprise security (SOC 2, ISO 42001, SSO)
  • Split-screen PDF viewer alongside AI chat
  • Zoom and text-copy tools for PDFs
  • Upload history tracking
  • Capture-and-ask screenshot querying (paid)
  • Custom prompt support (paid)
  • Instant PDF translation
  • Layout preservation
  • Side-by-side English and Japanese viewing
  • Chrome extension for one-click translation
  • Translation without DeepL subscription (optional)
Use cases
  • Onboarding new engineers faster
  • Answering questions about a codebase
  • Understanding how components connect
  • Finding and diagnosing bugs
  • Generating documentation from code
  • Automating PR code review
  • Raising test coverage
  • Incident investigation and remediation
  • Large-scale migrations and onboarding
  • Researchers reading and querying PDFs via AI
  • Students studying documents with AI help
  • Professionals reviewing reports using ChatGPT/Claude/DeepSeek
  • Translating English research papers into Japanese
  • Translating technical specifications from English to Japanese
  • Quickly understanding English documents in Japanese
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