AI Code Assistants¶
we have many of those around; which one to choose can get tricky; most Code Assistants are close or similar to each other; and its often "developer's-taste" that drives the decision
never the less, due to number of tools around, i would rather place these comparison on a separate page/ markdown
- Codex (OpenAI);
- Copilot (GitHub);
- Claude (Anthropic);
- Cursor AI (Anysphere)
- AMP CLI (Sourcegraph)
- Codeium (which i was using for more than a year)
- research also on licensed JetBrains Idea -- this comes with its own AI assistant
- other coding agents: TabNine, CodeWhisperer (AWS), Kira (AWS), Kite, Ghostwriter (Replit), Augment Code...
- most of these tools cost around $20 per month for Pro-licenses
i ended up choosing Windsurf Cascade.. * i was trying the free version for more than a year * got opportunity to use it at work as well * plus this was offering best monthly price at that moment/ time.