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Kombai

Verified Oct 15, 2026 Active
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Frontend coding agent that designs UIs as editable canvas blocks and emits code matched to your stack

design to codefrontend agentui generationvisual editingide extensionFreemium · from $20/mo

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Pricing

Pricing model
Freemium
Paid options from
$20/mo
Billing
Monthly

Free: 300 credits/month (150 at signup plus 50 daily) with 0.5x rollover. Pro $20/month with 2,000 credits and up to 5x rollover; Team $40/user/month with pooled 2,000–110,000 credits and up to 20 seats; Enterprise custom. Annual billing takes 20% off.

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Overview

About Kombai

Kombai is a frontend-specialist coding agent: it generates page designs as editable HTML blocks on a canvas, then produces code matched to your framework and conventions, with point-and-click visual editing of the rendered result. It ships as extensions for VS Code, Cursor and other editors plus desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux, and reports over 500K installs with enterprise users like Adobe and Microsoft. A free plan drips 300 credits a month; Pro is $20/month and team seats $40, all metered in credits with rollover. Backend work stays yours — it deliberately stops at the frontend.

Platforms
Web · macOS · Windows · Linux · VS Code extension
API
Not confirmed
Last verified
Oct 15, 2026

Verified sources

  • Design generation as HTML canvas blocks, stack-matched code and visual editing via IDE extensions and desktop appskombai.com ↗
  • Free 300 credits/month, Pro $20/month, Team $40/user/month, Enterprise customkombai.com ↗
  • Operated by Kombai, Inc. under California governing lawkombai.com ↗
Fact check

Is Kombai legit?

We don’t label tools safe or unsafe. Below are the records we checked ourselves, each with the date we read it.

Domain registered
Feb 17, 2013 (13 years ago)Registry record (RDAP), registrar Cloudflare, Inc., looked up Sep 6, 2026
TLS certificate
Issued by Amazon, valid until Dec 7, 2026Seen in our own connection to the site on Oct 15, 2026
Last checked
Oct 15, 2026The site answered
On the market since
2023The vendor's own material, read by us
Operated by
Kombai, Inc., United StatesOur research, card verified Aug 22, 2026

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Editorial verdict

Pros & cons of Kombai

high confidence

A rare agent that treats frontend as a design-plus-code problem: canvas designs, stack-aware code output and visual editing inside the IDE you already use. The catch is that it is frontend-only and credit-metered, so it complements rather than replaces a general coding assistant, and heavy use pushes you toward team pooling.

Pros

  • Designs arrive as editable HTML blocks, not flat mockups
  • Runs inside VS Code, Cursor and other editors plus its own desktop apps
  • Free tier renews credits daily, so evaluation is genuinely ongoing
  • SOC2 compliance and no training on user data on paid plans

Cons

  • Scope ends at the frontend; everything else needs other tools
  • Credit metering on each generation makes costs usage-dependent
  • No public API for pipeline automation

Best for

  • Frontend teams converting designs into stack-consistent components
  • Developers who want visual tweaking of rendered UI instead of prompt loops
  • Enterprises standardizing UI output across shared design systems

Not for

  • Full-stack generation including APIs and databases
  • Teams that want an open-source or self-hosted agent

Watch out: Credits meter every generation and design pass; sustained daily use on Pro may force an upgrade to pooled Team credits.

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