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Best AI tools for ide plugins

16 tools in the Coding category, filtered to ide plugins.

Cursor

Coding · Claude / GPT (configurable)

AI-first VS Code fork — chat, edit, and agentic coding in one IDE.

Freemium· Hobby: Free · Individual: $20 / mo. · Teams: $40 / user / mo. · Enterprise: Customcodingrefactors

Warp

Coding · Multi-model: OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Amazon Bedrock, plus BYO via OpenRouter and LiteLLM

The agentic development environment, from the terminal up

Freemium· Free: $0/month · Build: $20/month · Max: $200/month · Business: $50/user /month · Enterprise: CustomAgentic debugging of failing builds and testsNatural-language shell command generation

Cline

Coding · Model-agnostic: Claude (Anthropic), GPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), DeepSeek, Grok, Mistral, Cerebras, plus local Ollama/LM Studio

Open-source agentic coding assistant that plans, edits, and runs code inside your IDE

Freemium· ClinePass: $9.99/monthMulti-file feature scaffoldingLarge-scale refactors

Codeium

Coding · Proprietary + frontier models in Windsurf

Free, fast AI autocomplete + chat across 70+ editors.

Freemium· Free; Pro $15/mo; Teams $35/moautocompletechat

Claude Code

Coding · Claude (Opus / Sonnet / Haiku)

Anthropic's agentic coding tool that reads, edits, and ships code from the terminal, IDE, or web.

Freemium· Free: $0 · Pro: $20 · Max 5x: $100 · Max 20x: $100 · Standard seat: $20agentic-codingcodebase-refactor

Trae

Coding · Multi-model

ByteDance's AI-native IDE built as a Cursor-style VS Code fork with agent and cloud-task workflows.

Freemium· Lite: $3 · Pro: $10 · Pro+: $30 · Ultra: $100ai-idecode-completion

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

Pieces

Coding · Multi-model (BYO OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama)

On-device long-term memory layer that feeds your last nine months of work context into any LLM or IDE assistant.

Freemium· Pro: $18.99 · Enterprise: $22.99developer-memorycode-snippets

OpenCode

Coding · Multi-model (Claude, GPT, Gemini, local models, 75+ providers)

Open-source AI coding agent that runs in your terminal, IDE, or desktop and talks to 75+ LLM providers.

Freemium· Free and open source; optional paid Zen service for curated coding modelsai-pair-programmingterminal-coding-agent

Phind

Coding · Phind-70B / Phind-405B plus GPT and Claude models on Pro

AI answer engine for developers that cites sources and writes working code.

Freemium· Basic: $10 · Pro: $20 · Enterprise: Contact salescode-searchdebugging-help

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

Chatbot by Vercel

Coding · Provider-agnostic via the Vercel AI SDK (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Groq, Mistral, and others configurable)

Open-source Next.js chatbot template built on the Vercel AI SDK

Free· Free and open-source (MIT-style). Users cover their own hosting costs (e.g. Vercel plan) and AI provider API usage.Internal engineering copilotCustomer-facing support chatbot

Factory AI (Droids)

Coding · Model-agnostic: GPT-5, Claude Opus/Sonnet, Gemini, plus open-weight models

Agent-native platform that runs the whole software development lifecycle with autonomous Droids.

Freemium· Pro: $20 · Plus: $100 · Max: $200 · Business: ? · Enterprise: ?Autonomous ticket-to-PR feature workLarge-scale codebase refactors

Generative MUI React

Coding · model-agnostic (any LLM emitting A2UI v0.9.1; examples use Google Gemini)

Render LLM-emitted A2UI as real Material UI components, with streaming, two-way binding, and charts.

Free· Free, MIT-licensed npm package. No paid tiers; you pay only for whatever LLM you wire it to (e.g. Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic).LLM chat surfaces that render forms and cards instead of markdownAgent-driven dashboards with streamed MUI X Charts

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

Tabby

Coding · DeepSeek-Coder, Qwen2.5-Coder, StarCoder, CodeLlama, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint (Mistral, etc.)

Open-source, self-hosted AI coding assistant

Freemium· Community: $0 user/month · Team: $19 user/month · Enterprise: Contact usSelf-hosted code completionIn-IDE AI chat