Cut your coding time

in half with AI!

Did you know that devs who use copilots spend 50% less time writing code than those who don't? It's time to level up your coding game!

Today we’ve prepared a comparison of the leading coding copilot options available.

1. Codeium 🌱

Pros: Free, generally high quality and low latency across tasks, available on the widest set of IDEs
Cons: Occasional latency and quality issues
Price: Free
Functionality: Single + multi line codegen, In-
IDE integrated chat and search IDEs: VSCode, JetBrains, Jupyter / Colab / Deepnote / Databricks Notebooks, Vim / Neovim, Emacs, VSCode Web IDEs (ex. Gitpod), Chrome Extension
Languages: over 50 including all the main ones

2. Github Copilot 🤖

Pros: High quality on complex tasks, generally low latency, available on wide set of IDEs
Cons: Price, occasional latency and quality issues
Price:$10/mo or $100/yr (free for students / open source contributors)
Functionality: Single + multi line codegen
IDEs: VSCode, Visual Studio, Vim/Neovim, JetBrains
Languages: C, C++, C#, Go, Java, JS, PHP, Python, Ruby, Scala, TS, more with potentially lower quality

3. Tabnine Pro👨‍💻

Pros: Very fast, available on common IDEs
Cons: Low quality across all tasks, price
Price: $12/mo
Functionality: Single + multi line codegen
IDEs: VSCode, JetBrains
Languages: C, C++, C#, CSS, Dart, Go, Haskell, Java, JS, Kotlin, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala, TS

4. Replit GhostWriter 👻

Pros: Decent quality, generally low latency
Cons: Only available in Replit IDE, price
Price: $10/mo
Functionality: Single + multi line codegen, Code explanation
IDEs: Replit only
Languages: Bash, C, C++, C#, CSS, Go, HTML, Java, JS, PHP, Perl, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, SQL

5. Amazon CodeWhisperer 🤫

Pros: It’s best for writing code for Amazon’s own APIs
Cons: more limited set of languages
Price: Free
Functionality: Single + multi line codegen
Supported IDEs: VSCode, JetBrains, and select AWS IDEs.
Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin, C, C++, scripts Shell, SQL и Scala

❗️Overall, all of the tools seemed to have reasonable suggestion-generation latencies given human visual reaction time

None of those 5 options look good for you? The market offers too many other copilot alternatives for us to include in one post, so maybe you may want to look into one of the following:

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