| A Amazon Q Developer | Free Free for individuals with an AWS Builder ID (no usage cap); Professional tier at $19/month for teams and enterprise features. | Amazon's AI coding assistant built into VS Code, JetBrains, and other IDEs, free for individual developers with an AWS Builder ID. | - Free for individual developers with no usage cap and no credit card required
- Supports VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, and more IDEs out of the box
| - Requires signing up for a free AWS Builder ID to access
- Not open source; Amazon controls the model and the service roadmap
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| | Free Free tier with limited completions per month; Pro at $20/month for unlimited usage and access to faster models. | A VS Code fork with AI code generation, multi-file edits, and in-editor chat built directly into the interface. | - Familiar VS Code interface with zero learning curve for existing VS Code users
- Multi-file context awareness enables complex refactors across the entire codebase
| - Free tier has monthly completion limits that power users exhaust quickly
- Not open source; the editor itself is a proprietary fork of VS Code
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| S Sourcegraph Cody | Free Free tier with a Sourcegraph.com account; Pro at $9/month for stronger models and higher rate limits. | An AI coding assistant by Sourcegraph with deep codebase context, available as an IDE extension for VS Code and JetBrains. | - Free tier includes access to multiple models including Claude and GPT-4o
- Deep codebase understanding via Sourcegraph's code search and indexing integration
| - Not open source for the hosted service; self-hosted Enterprise setup is complex
- Free tier rate limits are stricter than some competing tools
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| C Continue | Free & Open Source | An open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains that connects to any LLM via your own API key or a local model. | - Fully open source under Apache 2.0 — inspect, modify, and self-host freely
- Works with any LLM including local models via Ollama for complete privacy
| - Requires an API key or a local LLM setup — no out-of-the-box free model access
- More setup involved than cloud-first alternatives like Copilot or Cursor
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| T Tabby | Free & Open Source Self-hosting is entirely free and open source; Tabby Cloud offers a free tier and paid plans for teams. | A self-hosted, open-source AI coding assistant with IDE plugins for VS Code and JetBrains, plus an optional Tabby Cloud hosted tier. | - Fully self-hostable — your code never leaves your own infrastructure
- Apache 2.0 licence — fully open for inspection, modification, and contribution
| - Self-hosting requires a server with a GPU for best completion performance
- Plugin ecosystem and UI polish lag behind commercial alternatives like Copilot
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