AI Tool Stack Advisor

Tool library

Curated AI coding and research tools. Filter by category or capability to find what fits your workflow.

64 tools

Cursor
mature
AI IDEs

AI-native code editor built on VS Code with agentic coding workflows.

Pricing: hybrid

Windsurf
growing
AI IDEs

AI IDE with cascade flows for context-aware coding assistance.

Pricing: subscription

GitHub Copilot
mature
Editor copilots

AI pair programmer integrated into popular editors and GitHub.

Pricing: hybrid

Claude Code
growing
Terminal coding agents

Anthropic's terminal-based agent for codebase-aware development tasks.

Pricing: usage based

OpenAI Codex
growing
Terminal coding agents

OpenAI coding agent for local CLI, IDE extension, and cloud tasks with repo-aware workflows.

Pricing: hybrid

Aider
mature
Terminal coding agents

Open-source terminal pair programmer that edits code in your local git repo.

Pricing: free

Cline
growing
Terminal coding agents

VS Code extension agent that can read, write, and execute in your workspace.

Pricing: free

Continue
growing
Editor copilots

Open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains.

Pricing: free

Replit Agent
growing
Browser/cloud app builders

Cloud IDE with agentic app building and deployment.

Pricing: subscription

v0
growing
Browser/cloud app builders

Vercel's UI generation tool for React and Tailwind components.

Pricing: credits

Lovable
growing
Browser/cloud app builders

Prompt-to-app builder for full-stack prototypes.

Pricing: subscription

Bolt
growing
Browser/cloud app builders

StackBlitz bolt.new for in-browser full-stack generation.

Pricing: subscription

Devin
emerging
Repo agents

Autonomous software engineering agent for scoped dev tasks.

Pricing: seat based

Sourcegraph Cody
mature
Repo agents

AI assistant with codebase context from Sourcegraph.

Pricing: hybrid

Tabnine
mature
Editor copilots

AI code completion with privacy and enterprise options.

Pricing: seat based

Codeium
growing
Editor copilots

Free AI code completion and chat for many editors.

Pricing: hybrid

OpenHands
emerging
Local/open-source agents

Open-source platform for software development agents.

Pricing: free

Sweep
emerging
Repo agents

AI junior developer for GitHub issues and small PRs.

Pricing: subscription

Grit
growing
Repo agents

Declarative code search and transformation (GritQL) for large-scale migrations and dependency upgrades.

Pricing: hybrid

Perplexity
mature
AI answer engines

Answer engine with citations for web-grounded research.

Pricing: subscription

NotebookLM
growing
Source-grounded notebooks

Google notebook for grounding AI on your documents and sources.

Pricing: hybrid

Deepnote
growing
Data science notebooks

Collaborative cloud notebook for SQL, Python, and AI-assisted data analysis with team workflows.

Pricing: subscription

Elicit
growing
Academic search

AI research assistant for literature review and paper analysis.

Pricing: subscription

Consensus
growing
Academic search

Search engine for scientific consensus from published research.

Pricing: subscription

SciSpace
growing
Academic search

AI platform for reading, explaining, and writing about papers.

Pricing: subscription

Exa
growing
Research APIs

Neural search API for developers building research features.

Pricing: usage based

Tavily
growing
Research APIs

Search API optimized for LLM agents and RAG pipelines.

Pricing: usage based

ChatGPT Deep Research
growing
Deep research assistants

OpenAI workflow for multi-step research reports inside ChatGPT.

Pricing: subscription

Claude research workflows
growing
Deep research assistants

Anthropic Claude with web search and analysis for research tasks.

Pricing: subscription

Gemini research workflows
growing
Deep research assistants

Google Gemini with deep research and workspace integrations.

Pricing: subscription

Notion AI
mature
Knowledge synthesis

AI writing and Q&A inside Notion workspaces.

Pricing: subscription

Lindy
growing
Workflow agents

Personal AI work assistant for inbox, meetings, calendar, scheduling, and cross-app follow-ups.

Pricing: subscription

Readwise Reader
mature
Knowledge synthesis

Reading app with highlights, RSS, and AI-assisted review.

Pricing: subscription

ChatGPT
mature
AI answer engines

General-purpose AI assistant from OpenAI.

Pricing: subscription

Claude
mature
AI answer engines

Anthropic's conversational AI for analysis, writing, and coding.

Pricing: subscription

Gemini
mature
AI answer engines

Google's multimodal AI assistant.

Pricing: subscription

Phind
growing
AI answer engines

Developer-focused answer engine with code and web context.

Pricing: subscription

You.com
growing
AI answer engines

AI search with modes for web, code, and creative tasks.

Pricing: subscription

Kiro
growing
Spec-driven coding

AWS-backed agentic IDE focused on turning prompts into specs, docs, tests, and working code.

Pricing: hybrid

JetBrains AI
mature
Editor copilots

AI Assistant and Junie agent inside IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand, Rider, and other JetBrains IDEs.

Pricing: subscription

Augment Code
growing
Enterprise coding agents

Agentic software development for large codebases and org-scale workflows.

Pricing: seat based

Amp
growing
Terminal coding agents

Sourcegraph frontier coding agent with CLI usage and pay-as-you-go individual pricing.

Pricing: usage based

Google Jules
emerging
Async repo agents

Google autonomous coding agent that integrates with GitHub and works asynchronously on bugs, docs, and features.

Pricing: unknown

CodeRabbit
mature
AI code review

AI pull request reviews with codebase context and actionable feedback on GitHub and GitLab.

Pricing: hybrid

Qodo
growing
AI code review

AI code review, quality, and test generation across the SDLC with IDE and PR integrations.

Pricing: hybrid

Greptile
growing
AI code review

Codebase-aware AI that summarizes repos and automates pull request reviews.

Pricing: subscription

Graphite Diamond
growing
AI code review

AI reviews inside Graphite PR workflows for faster, stacked pull request review.

Pricing: subscription

Firebase Studio
growing
Browser/cloud app builders

Google browser-based agentic environment for full-stack AI app prototyping with Firebase.

Pricing: usage based

GitHub Spark
emerging
Browser/cloud app builders

Natural-language app builder inside the GitHub and Copilot ecosystem.

Pricing: hybrid

Zed
growing
AI IDEs

High-performance editor with built-in AI, BYOK, hosted models, external agents, and business plans.

Pricing: hybrid

Genspark
growing
Research workspaces

AI workspace spanning research, documents, slides, code, images, and video deliverables.

Pricing: subscription

Felo
growing
Research workspaces

Multilingual AI search with AI pages, mind maps, slides, and knowledge-base search.

Pricing: hybrid

Ai2 Asta
growing
Academic research

Scholarly assistant from Ai2 using large abstract and full-text collections for evidence-focused research.

Pricing: unknown

Firecrawl
Builder infragrowing
Agent infrastructure / web data

Turns websites into clean LLM-ready data for crawl, scrape, and agent workflows.

Pricing: usage based

Browserbase
Builder infragrowing
Agent infrastructure / web data

Managed browser infrastructure for AI agents that need real web sessions.

Pricing: usage based

Stagehand
Builder infragrowing
Agent infrastructure / web data

Open-source AI browser automation from Browserbase with act, extract, observe, and agent primitives.

Pricing: free

Apify
Builder inframature
Agent infrastructure / web data

Web scraping actors, fresh data feeds, and automation for AI agent pipelines.

Pricing: usage based

Semantic Scholar API
Builder inframature
Scholarly data APIs

Academic Graph API for paper, author, and citation data in research products.

Pricing: free

OpenAlex
Builder inframature
Scholarly data APIs

Open catalog of scholarly works, authors, sources, institutions, and topics for research data workflows.

Pricing: free

Roo Code
watch
Editor copilots

Open-source VS Code agent in the Cline lineage for multi-mode coding tasks.

Pricing: free

Void
watch
AI IDEs

Open-source AI code editor and VS Code fork focused on privacy and local models.

Pricing: free

PearAI
watch
AI IDEs

Open-source AI code editor built around VS Code and Continue lineage.

Pricing: free

TRAE
watch
AI IDEs

AI IDE from the ByteDance ecosystem with agentic coding features.

Pricing: unknown

Fellou
watch
Research workspaces

Self-driving browser for deep search, automation, and multi-step web tasks.

Pricing: unknown