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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
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✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI coding assistant offering autocomplete and chat in IDEs; the company was acquired by Cursor.
775K visits/mo
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MarsCode
✓ verifiedFree
AI-powered IDE with code completion, generation, explanation and debugging, plus a cloud dev environment, for developers.
69K visits/mo
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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
Pricing
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Pro: $10/mo
Pro Plus: $20/mo
Pro Max: $40/mo
Core features
- ✦AI code completion and suggestions
- ✦Natural-language code generation
- ✦In-IDE chat assistance
- ✦AI code review
- ✦IDE integrations (VS Code, JetBrains, etc.)
- ✦GitHub integration
- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
- ✦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
- ✦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
Use cases
- →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
- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
- →Writing and completing code faster with AI
- →Onboarding to unfamiliar codebases
- →Debugging and optimizing code
- →Spinning up dev environments in the browser
- →Automating refactors, tests, and migrations
- →Running competing AI coding agents
- →Building apps from prompts
- →Integrating agents into CI/CD
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