By AnthropicSan Francisco, United States3 products across 7 categories
Built for this. Reads long files and whole error traces without losing the thread, which makes it good at explaining unfamiliar code and debugging in a chat window.
Free plan
Yes
Free tier with daily caps
Month to month
$20/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$17/mo
$200 a year, Pro plan −15%
Watch out: The chat window has no access to your project. For multi-file work you need the agent below or a dedicated editor.
By GitHubSan Francisco, United States2 products across 1 category
Built for this. The default, and the one already wired into the editor and the pull request your team uses. A free tier now covers light use.
Free plan
Yes
2,000 completions a month
Month to month
$10/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published
Watch out: Suggestions are strongest on common patterns and weakest exactly where your codebase is unusual. Pro and above bundle a monthly credit allowance, so premium-model work is metered on top of the seat.
By StackBlitzSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. Describe an app and it builds and runs it in the browser, with the code editable and deployable from there.
Free plan
Yes
300K tokens a day and 1M a month
Month to month
$25/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$18/mo
Pro plan −28%
Watch out: Credits burn quickly on iteration, and a generated app is a prototype until someone reads it. Pro is sold in token tiers from 10M a month up, so its price is the entry rate rather than the bill.
By CognitionSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. Autonomous agent that takes a ticket and works it to completion. There is a free tier, with paid plans above it.
Free plan
Yes
Free plan at $0
Month to month
$20/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published
Watch out: Autonomy means less visibility into what changed — review discipline matters more, not less. Larger organisations may still be routed through sales rather than self-serve.
By Google DeepMindLondon, United Kingdom6 products across 6 categories
Strong fit. Unusually generous free tier for individuals, and it plugs into standard IDEs rather than requiring a new one.
Free plan
Yes
Free for individuals, unusually generous
Month to month
$22.80/mo
Standard
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published
Watch out: Less capable at whole-repository reasoning than the purpose-built agents. It is also reachable through the Google Developer Program, which is a separate membership with its own terms rather than a tier on this ladder.
By LangChainSan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. The standard framework for wiring a model to your own data, with tracing so you can see why it answered as it did.
Free plan
Yes
Open-source framework; LangSmith Developer is free for one seat, 5,000 traces a month
Month to month
$39/mo
Plus
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published
Watch out: A developer library, not an application. Both LangSmith tiers meter traces above a monthly allowance, so the seat price is a floor rather than the bill, and the free tier is one seat only.
All plans (3)
Plan
Price
What you get
Free
$0
Open-source framework; LangSmith Developer is free for one seat, 5,000 traces a month
By MintlifySan Francisco, United States1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. Publishes developer documentation from your repository and drafts the pages from the code itself.
Free plan
Yes
Starter, free with five editor seats
Month to month
$540/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$450/mo
Pro plan −17%
Watch out: The AI writing is the smaller half; most of the value is the publishing. There is nothing between the free tier and $450 a month, so the decision is whether five editors is enough rather than which plan to buy.
By QodoTel Aviv, Israel1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. Writes unit tests against existing code and suggests the cases you did not think of, inside the editor.
Free plan
Yes
Free tier for individuals
Month to month
$30/mo
Pro Team, sold to teams rather than to one person
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published
Watch out: Generated tests can assert current behaviour rather than correct behaviour, which passes and proves nothing. One plan sold in credit packs rather than a ladder: the price is the pack you pick, it is designed for up to 30 users, and overage is capped at a figure you set.
By GitHubSan Francisco, United States2 products across 1 category
Can do it. Where the code already is. The AI tools on this list act on repositories, pull requests and Actions rather than replacing them, so this is the thing they plug into.
Free plan
Yes
Free plan for individuals and organisations
Month to month
$4/mo
Team, sold to teams rather than to one person
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published
Watch out: Not an AI tool itself — the AI is Copilot, priced separately above. Both paid seat prices are introductory and hold for the first twelve months only.
By Augment ComputingPalo Alto, United States1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. Built for codebases large enough that context is the whole problem, and it indexes the repository rather than reading files on demand.
Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$20/mo
Standard
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published
Watch out: Individual plans were retired in 2026, so the entry price is a team one — flat, not per seat, which makes it unusually cheap per head on a large team. What you buy is a usage allowance rather than seats: $20 buys $20 of it, and anything beyond is topped up pay as you go.
By Pieces for DevelopersCincinnati, United States1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. Remembers what you were doing across your editor, browser and terminal, and can keep all of it on your own machine.
Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$18.99/mo
Pro
Billed yearly
$14.17/mo
$169.99 a year, Pro plan −25%
Watch out: A memory layer rather than a coding assistant — it will not write the code. The free tier is gone: every plan now starts with a seven-day trial that asks for a card, and the value only appears after weeks of use.
By TabnineTel Aviv, Israel1 product across 1 category
Strong fit. Can run entirely inside your own infrastructure with no code leaving it, which is why regulated teams still choose it.
Free plan
No
Paid from the start
Month to month
$39/mo
Code Assistant
Billed yearly
—
No yearly price published
Watch out: It withdrew its free tier and every individual plan during 2025 — there is no way for one developer to buy it any more, only a team. Both tiers are annual and neither has a checkout: the button on each is Get a quote.
These 59 are on the
site and may be excellent, but not tagged for a developer — usually price, an enterprise
sales process, or the technical knowledge assumed.
Coding, Data & Technical Work tools not tagged for a developer.
What is the best AI for coding, data & technical work if you are a developer?
19 of the 78 tools we track for this category are tagged as suiting a developer: ChatGPT, Claude, CodeRabbit, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Replit, Claude Code, Bolt.new, Codestral, Devin, Gemini Code Assist, JetBrains AI, LangChain / LangSmith, Mintlify, Qodo, Augment Code, Pieces, Tabnine, GitHub. 7 of them are built for this kind of work.
Which coding, data & technical work tools are not for a developer?
Julius AI, Lovable, CodeConvert AI, codesnippets, Commabot, ContractReader.io, Count, Dify, EZSite.ai, Formularizer, Formulas HQ, Framer AI, Google Antigravity, Hex, Hocoos AI Website Builder, Hubble AI, Inworld AI, Kadoa, Lettria, Metatext, MindStudio, PageGPT, Pine Script Wizard, Pineapple Builder, Qwen, re:tune, Regex.ai, Rooms, SheetAI, Sketch2App, Sloped, Tomat.AI, Trae, UBIAI, UBOS, v0, Webscrape AI, websim.ai, Wishpond AI, Wix ADI, AI 2 SQL, Ajelix, Akkio, Base44, Butternut AI, Cheat Layer, CodeMate, CodeMorph, Emergent, GPTAgent, Jules, Kanaries, Kilo Code, Makelanding, Mixo, Obviously AI, Sitekick, Typo, WebWave — 59 of the 78. They are on the site and may be excellent, but not tagged for this reader, usually because of price, an enterprise sales process, or the technical knowledge assumed.
