CODING

Google's frontier model family. Gemini 2.5 Pro has 1M token context and top-tier coding benchmarks. Gemini 3 Pro pushes reasoning further. Free tier via AI Studio.

European open-weight models. Mistral Large for complex tasks, Mistral Small for speed, Codestral for code. Strong multilingual support. Open and API options.

OpenAI's latest flagship model. Major leap in reasoning, coding, and instruction following over GPT-4o. Powers ChatGPT Plus/Pro and the API. Available via API and ChatGPT.

Install Ollama, pull your first model, and run AI locally for coding, chat, and automation - with zero cloud dependency.

Open-source reasoning models from China. DeepSeek-R1 rivals o1 on math and code benchmarks. V3 for general use. Fully open weights. Extremely cost-effective API.

State-of-the-art computer use, steerable thinking you can redirect mid-response, and a million tokens of context. GPT 5.4 is OpenAI's most capable model yet.

Cursor just dropped their first in-house model. Composer is 4x faster than similar models and completes most coding tasks in under 30 seconds. Here's what actually changed and why it matters.

Two months ago, I built Open Lovable with Claude Sonnet 4. Today, Kimi K2 runs the show.

OpenAI is drawing a line in the sand. GPT-5 Codex is not an API release.

xAI's Grok Code Fast 1 arrives with a specific mission: eliminate the friction in agentic coding workflows. While models like GPT-5, Claude 4, and Gemini 2.5 Pro deliver impressive benchmark scores...

Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen 3 Coder, a 480-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model that sets a new bar for open-source coding assistants. With 35 billion active parameters and support ...

Anthropic's agentic coding CLI. Runs in your terminal, edits files autonomously, spawns sub-agents, and maintains memory across sessions. Powered by Claude Opus 4.

AI-native code editor forked from VS Code. Composer mode rewrites multiple files at once. Tab autocomplete predicts your next edit. Pro plan is $20/mo.

OpenAI's cloud coding agent. Runs in a sandboxed container, reads your repo, executes tasks, and submits PRs. Uses GPT-5.3 (codex model). Available in ChatGPT.

Google's open-source coding CLI. Free tier with Gemini 2.5 Pro. Supports tool use, file editing, shell commands. 1M token context window.

The original AI coding assistant. 77M+ developers. Inline completions in VS Code and JetBrains. Copilot Workspace generates full projects from issues. $10/mo.

AI app builder - describe what you want, get a deployed full-stack app with React, Supabase, and auth. No coding required. Free tier available.

Codeium's AI-native IDE. Cascade agent mode handles multi-file edits autonomously. Free tier with generous limits. Strong alternative to Cursor.

Vercel's generative UI tool. Describe a component, get production-ready React code with shadcn/ui and Tailwind. Iterate by chatting. Free to try.

StackBlitz's in-browser AI app builder. Full-stack apps from a prompt - runs Node.js, installs packages, and deploys. No local setup needed.