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CodeGPT
✓ verifiedFreemium

IDE coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains that uses your own API keys across 15+ model providers, with agentic mode and autocomplete.

262K visits/mo
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Cody
✓ verifiedPaid

Enterprise AI coding assistant that pulls context from an entire codebase to power chat, code edits and debugging.

245K visits/mo
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Continue
✓ 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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Refact AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

Open-source, self-hostable AI coding agent with autocomplete, in-IDE chat and autonomous task execution for teams needing data control.

113K visits/mo
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Windsurf Editor
✓ verifiedFree trial

AI-powered code editor with agentic workflows for developers.

3.3M visits/mo
Pricing
Free: $0/mo (BYOK, 30 free interactions)
AutoComplete Add-on / BYOK Pro: $8/mo per seat ($6.67 annual)
Enterprise: starting at $16K (includes AI feature credits, scales with team size)

No public pricing

No public pricing

No public pricing

Core features
  • BYOK access to 15+ model providers
  • Agentic planning-then-build mode
  • AI autocomplete
  • MCP connections to external systems
  • Custom rules and live context tracking
  • Local models via Ollama/LM Studio
  • VS Code and JetBrains plugins
  • Codebase-aware developer chat
  • AI code completions and inline edits
  • Customizable and shareable prompts
  • Automatic bug identification and debugging help
  • Context filters to exclude sensitive repos
  • Integrates with major code hosts and IDEs
  • Open-source AI code assistant
  • Customizable autocomplete
  • In-editor AI chat
  • Community-built coding agent
  • Autonomous AI agent that plans and executes multi-step coding tasks
  • In-IDE chat for asking, editing, debugging and generating code
  • Real-time code autocompletion using retrieval-augmented generation
  • Repository search and analysis for context-aware execution
  • Integrations with GitHub, databases and CI/CD pipelines
  • Self-hosted/on-premise deployment option for data privacy
  • Support for choosing among different underlying LLMs
  • AI-powered code completion and suggestions
  • Automated lint fixing
  • Cascade agent for advanced coding assistance
  • Integrated app building and deployment
  • MCP server support for custom tools
  • Terminal command integration
  • Memory of codebase structure and workflow
Use cases
  • Code generation, refactoring and debugging
  • Control AI spend with your own keys
  • Switch between frontier models per task
  • Keep code private and data-sovereign
  • Engineers asking questions about an unfamiliar large codebase
  • Teams standardizing common coding tasks with shared prompts
  • Developers debugging errors faster with AI-assisted context
  • Enterprises running large-scale code migrations
  • Get AI code completions while coding
  • Ask questions about code in the editor
  • Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
  • Developer teams wanting an in-IDE autonomous coding agent
  • Organizations requiring on-premise/self-hosted AI coding tools for data control
  • Individuals doing 'vibe coding' with minimal manual coding
  • Teams fine-tuning an AI assistant to their own codebase
  • Accelerating software development by automating repetitive tasks
  • Reducing onboarding time for new developers
  • Improving code quality and reducing tech debt
  • Streamlining the app building and deployment process
  • Enhancing developer productivity by keeping them in a state of flow
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