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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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Aider
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Open-source terminal AI pair programmer that edits code in your local git repo and auto-commits, working with most LLMs.
479K visits/mo
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Defang
✓ verifiedFreemium
Developer tool that deploys Docker Compose apps (with LLMs and databases) into your own AWS, GCP or Azure account via one command.
20K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Starter: $0 (1 cloud account)
Pro: $49/mo (1 account, +$29/mo per extra)
Enterprise: $499/mo (3 accounts, +$49/mo per extra)
Core features
- ✦Open-source AI code assistant
- ✦Customizable autocomplete
- ✦In-editor AI chat
- ✦Community-built coding agent
- ✦Terminal-based AI pair programming
- ✦Edits code in your local git repo
- ✦Automatic git commits with messages
- ✦Codebase mapping for large projects
- ✦Works with cloud and local LLMs
- ✦Voice-to-code, image/web context, lint and test
- ✦One-command deploy from Docker Compose
- ✦Deploys into your own or a customer's cloud account
- ✦Native managed LLM access (Bedrock/Vertex/Azure AI)
- ✦Managed Postgres, MongoDB and Redis
- ✦Auto-configured IAM, VPC, TLS and load balancing
- ✦Open-source CLI and cloud providers
Use cases
- →Get AI code completions while coding
- →Ask questions about code in the editor
- →Build on an open-source coding-agent foundation
- →Building features and fixing bugs via AI in the terminal
- →Working on large existing codebases
- →Automating git commits
- →Using local LLMs for private coding
- →Shipping AI agents and web apps to production
- →Deploying the same app across many customer clouds
- →Agencies deploying into client cloud accounts
- →Avoiding hand-written Terraform or Kubernetes
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