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Best AI tools for cli tools

15 tools in the Coding category, filtered to cli tools.

Replit Agent

Coding · Multi-model (Claude / GPT configurable)

Build & deploy a full app from a single prompt.

Freemium· Basic: $20 · Pro: $50 · Enterprise: Contact salesprototypesinternal tools

Aider

Coding · BYO (Claude / GPT-4 / Gemini / DeepSeek)

Terminal-based AI pair programmer that writes commits.

Free· Free / open-source; you pay the underlying LLM API costsCLIgit workflow

Lovable

Coding · Undisclosed (multi-model)

Chat-driven app builder that turns natural-language prompts into deployable full-stack web apps.

Freemium· Free: Free · Pro: ? · Business: ?app-prototypingno-code-webapps

Windsurf

Coding · SWE-1.6 Fast (plus Claude Agent, OpenCode via ACP)

AI-native IDE turned agent command center, now folded into Cognition's Devin lineup.

Freemium· Free; Pro $20/mo; Max $200/mo; Teams $80/mo + $40/seat; Enterprise customai-idecoding-agents

pgMagic

Coding · OpenAI (user-supplied API key)

Mac desktop client that lets you chat with your Postgres database in natural language using your own OpenAI key.

Paid· AU$22 one-time license; bring your own OpenAI API keynatural-language-to-sqlpostgres-client

LLM by Datasette

Coding · Multi-model

A CLI and Python library for running prompts against any LLM provider and logging everything to SQLite.

Free· Free and open source (Apache 2.0); pay underlying model providers separatelycli-promptingprompt-logging

GoCodeo

Coding · Multi-model (Claude 3.5/3.7, Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT-4o, o3-mini, DeepSeek-R1)

VS Code agent that builds, tests, and debugs full-stack apps across 25+ frameworks with multiple frontier LLMs.

Freemium· Hobby: Free · Starter: US $9/ month · Pro: US $19/ monthcode-generationtest-generation

ChatWithCloud

Coding · OpenAI (BYO key)

Natural-language CLI for managing, troubleshooting, and fixing AWS infrastructure.

Freemium· Free trial; $39 lifetime (BYO OpenAI key) or $19/mo managedaws-clicost-analysis

Mocha

Coding · Multi-model

AI-powered no-code app builder aimed at non-technical founders shipping production web apps from natural-language prompts.

Freemium· Starter: Free · Bronze: $20 · Silver: $50 · Gold: $200no-code app buildingmvp prototyping

Bolt.new

Coding · Automatic multi-model routing (Bolt Agent selects frontier models per task; Anthropic Claude family is the primary code generator, with additional models used for planning and edits)

Prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web apps from a browser tab

Freemium· Free: $0 · Pro: $25 · Teams: $30 · Enterprise: CustomLanding page generationSaaS MVP prototyping

Chat2DB

Coding · Model-agnostic: OpenAI GPT-4o, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, and self-hosted Ollama/vLLM endpoints

AI-native SQL client and Text-to-SQL copilot for 30+ databases

Freemium· PRO: Contact Us · ENTERPRISE: Contact UsNatural-language SQL queryingMulti-database GUI client

Cobalt

Coding · Agent-agnostic wrapper: OpenAI Codex (via user's ChatGPT account), Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, Pi

An AI developer with its own cloud computer that writes code in your GitHub repo, runs the tests, and hands you a pull request.

Freemium· Public pricing not listed on the marketing site at time of review; a free 'Try Cobalt' onboarding is offered and users bring their own ChatGPT account (Plus/Pro) to power the Codex coding agent, so model-provider costs sit outside Cobalt.Async feature implementation via pull requestReproduce-and-fix bug tickets end-to-end

OpenClaude

Coding · Model-agnostic — routes to OpenAI, Gemini, Grok, Codex, Ollama, LM Studio, GitHub Models, DeepSeek and 200+ others

Open-source, model-agnostic terminal coding agent

Free· Free and open source; you pay only for whichever underlying model API you configure (or $0 with local Ollama / LM Studio).Terminal-based pair programmingAutomated refactors across a repository

Poolside

Coding · Poolside Laguna 2.1 (in-house) — Laguna S 118B/8B-active MoE and Laguna XS 33B/3B-active MoE

Frontier open-weight foundation models purpose-built for agentic software engineering.

Enterprise· No public price list. Direct enterprise/government engagements are contact-sales; the Laguna 2.1 open-weight models can also be consumed pay-per-token via third-party gateways (OpenRouter, Vercel AI Gateway) at their published rates.Self-hosted coding agents inside enterprise VPCsAir-gapped / on-prem code generation for defense and government

Same.new

Coding · Undisclosed premium frontier models (paid tiers)

Prompt-first AI web app builder that turns a URL or description into a live, hosted full-stack app.

Freemium· Free (500K tokens/mo) / Basic $10/mo (2M tokens) / Pro $25/mo (5M tokens) / Max $50/mo (10M tokens) / Ultra $100/mo (20M tokens, $10 per additional 2M overage). Tokens do not roll over.Cloning a reference site's UI as a starting templatePrototyping SaaS onboarding flows