Editors, issue trackers, API clients, internal-tool builders and other software that removes friction from everyday engineering work. Listings note free tiers, per-user pricing and the platforms each tool supports.
8 tools
AI-powered code editor and coding agent that can explain a codebase, plan and implement changes, fix bugs and review diffs, with a choice of models from several providers.
Free plan available; listed paid plans from USD 8 per month; other plans: check official pricing
GitHub's AI assistant for writing, understanding and shipping code, with inline suggestions, chat, agent workflows and pull request review built into GitHub.
Free plan available; listed paid plans from USD 10 per month; other plans: check official pricing
Hugging Face Hub is a platform for hosting and sharing machine learning models, datasets and demo apps (Spaces) in Git-based repositories. It offers model and dataset cards, a dataset viewer, Inference Providers for serverless model calls, Inference Endpoints for dedicated deployments, Spaces hardware including ZeroGPU, and organization features such as SSO, audit logs and storage regions on Team and Enterprise plans.
Free plan available; paid plans from USD 9 per month
Linear is an issue tracking and project planning tool for software teams. Work is organized into teams, issues, cycles, projects and initiatives, with triage for incoming requests, Asks for turning Slack or email requests into issues, Insights for reporting, and an agent platform that lets coding agents and AI clients act on issues.
Free plan available; paid plans from USD 10 per user per month, billed annually
Platform for working with APIs: send and test requests, organize them into collections, design API specs and share work in team workspaces. Available as desktop and web apps and a CLI.
Free plan available; paid plans from USD 9 per month, billed annually
Retool is a low-code platform for building internal and customer-facing software on top of existing databases and APIs. It offers drag-and-drop and AI-generated web apps, native mobile apps, scheduled or triggered workflows, AI agents with human-in-the-loop controls, a managed PostgreSQL database, permissions, source control and the choice of Retool-hosted or self-hosted deployment.
Free plan available; paid plans from USD 5 per seat per month, billed annually
Microsoft's code editor for Windows, macOS and Linux, free for private or commercial use, with an extension ecosystem and GitHub Copilot integration.
Free plan available
AI IDE formerly sold as Windsurf; the vendor states Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf and windsurf.com now redirects to devin.ai. It centres on an agent command center for running local and cloud coding agents.
Free plan available; paid plans from USD 20 per month
Cursor is an AI-native code editor with an agent built in; GitHub Copilot is an AI assistant that lives inside editors you already use and inside GitHub pull requests. This comparison lays out their plans, limits and documented features side by side, from the vendors' official pages, so you can see which fits the way your team works.