Code assistants, AI IDEs and review bots that let one developer ship like a team.
3 tools, ranked by community upvotes. Every listing includes a note from its founder and real pricing.
Cursor is a code editor with an AI agent that reads your repository and makes changes across multiple files, which you review before accepting them. For a solo founder it takes on routine work like refactors, bug fixes and boilerplate, so more of your time goes to product…
Pricing: Free Hobby plan with limited agent requests; Pro from $20/month
GitHub Copilot suggests code as you type, answers questions in chat, and can hand tasks to a cloud coding agent. If your repositories already live on GitHub, it keeps the assistant next to your issues and code review. The free plan is enough to try it, and Pro adds unlimited…
Pricing: Free plan (2,000 completions/month); Pro $10/month, Pro+ $39/month
Windsurf is an AI code editor that is now called Devin Desktop, with plans and pricing unchanged. It combines inline edits and tab completions with local and cloud agents that you plan, delegate to and review from one place. A solo developer can start on the free plan and move…
Pricing: Free plan; Pro $20/month, Max $200/month
