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The New GitBook
✓ verifiedFreemium

Documentation platform for publishing accurate, AI-ready docs sites, with Git sync and an MCP server for AI tools.

653K visits/mo2.9K saves
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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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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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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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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
Pricing

No public pricing

Free trial available

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No public pricing

Free: $0/mo (BYOK, 30 free interactions)
AutoComplete Add-on / BYOK Pro: $8/mo per seat ($6.67 annual)

No public pricing

Core features
  • Publish structured documentation sites
  • Git sync for docs-as-code workflows
  • AI setup agent to build and import docs
  • GitBook MCP server for AI access
  • Enterprise controls
  • Free tier to start
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
Use cases
  • Publish product and API documentation
  • Maintain docs-as-code with Git sync
  • Make docs consumable by AI assistants
  • Import existing docs into a hosted site
  • 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
  • Code generation, refactoring and debugging
  • Control AI spend with your own keys
  • Switch between frontier models per task
  • Keep code private and data-sovereign
  • 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
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