OpenAI's coding agent for the terminal, IDE, desktop and cloud sandboxes, included with ChatGPT plans or billed by API tokens.
AI Coding Assistants
As of , EffectHub tracks 38 live AI tools in its AI Coding Assistants category; 31 (82%) have a free tier, and paid plans start at $4 a month.
38 verified tools
Autocomplete and pair-programming assistants.
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Showing 1–24 of 38
Anthropic's coding agent that reads a repository, edits files and runs commands from the terminal, IDE, desktop app, browser or Slack
TalkCody
69Free, open-source coding agent built on Rust and Tauri, with bring-your-own-key access to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or local models.
Verdent
77Coding agent running several tasks in parallel from a Mac app, a VS Code or JetBrains extension, or Slack
Zencoder
77Coding agents that route each task to Claude, Gemini or Codex, inside VS Code, JetBrains or a headless workflow.
Describe an animation in words and get CSS or Tailwind keyframes back, with a live preview
Free browser tool that translates a snippet between languages or writes one from a description
AWS's coding and operations assistant for IDEs, the terminal and the console, with its IDE plugins now on an end-of-support clock.
Amp
71Coding agent that runs in your terminal, a Mac app or Amp's cloud machines, on your own model subscriptions or keys
Cody
73Enterprise coding assistant grounded in your whole repository
Open-source AI coding agent and autocomplete that runs in your IDE, in the cloud or fully self-hosted
Generates short scripts on request in 14+ languages, from Excel VBA to Bash and SQL.
notesasm
71A board of AI agents that write and QA code, send outreach and post on social, running on your own Claude subscription.
Aider
69Open-source terminal pair programmer that edits a git repository with the model you choose and commits each change.
AskCodi
79AI agent agency that scopes, builds and maintains apps from a brief or a repository, plus an OpenAI-compatible model gateway.
Free web converter between plain English and regular expressions, in both directions
Pastes source code and converts it into another programming language, from Python and JavaScript to Java, C++, Go, and Rust.
Codebuff
77Terminal-based coding agent that edits your codebase and runs commands from natural-language requests.
Mac app for running Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and OpenCode agents in parallel, each in its own isolated workspace.
Inline completions, chat and coding agents across the major IDEs
OpenCode
85Open-source coding agent for the terminal, desktop and IDE that works with 75+ model providers or your existing Copilot and ChatGPT plans.
Traycer
82Workspace that plans coding tasks and keeps your own AI coding agents on track across editors, devices and teammates.
Agen
79Cloud coding agents that clone your repos, write the change, fix the failing pipeline and hand back a pull request with a live preview.
Browser coding tools, a multi-model chat and a desktop coding agent that works on local projects, all paid from one credit balance.
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As of October 27, 2026, EffectHub tracks 38 live AI tools in its AI Coding Assistants category; 31 (82%) have a free tier, and paid plans start at $4 a month. (EffectHub, “AI Coding Assistants”, Oct 2026, https://effecthub.net/ai-tools/coding-assistants)
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