Best Code & Development Tools for Business

Groq uses its proprietary Language Processing Unit (LPU) to deliver the fastest AI inference available — hundreds of tokens per second. Offers an OpenAI-compatible API with free tier access to Llama 3, Mixtral, and Gemma models. Ideal for latency-sensitive applications.

LM Studio is a desktop application that lets you discover, download, and run local large language models from Hugging Face with a polished GUI. Features a built-in chat interface, OpenAI-compatible server mode, and GPU acceleration support. Ideal for running models privately without cloud costs.

Hugging Face is the largest open-source AI community hosting 500K+ models, 100K+ datasets, and thousands of AI demo apps. It provides tools for training, deploying, and sharing models, serving as the central hub for the open-source AI ecosystem.

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that integrates directly into VS Code, JetBrains, and other editors. It suggests code completions, writes functions from comments, and now includes chat for explaining and debugging code.

The Anthropic API provides programmatic access to Claude models for developers building AI applications. It supports text generation, vision, tool use, and long-context processing, with enterprise features like guaranteed uptime and priority access.

Cline (formerly Claude Dev) is an open-source AI coding agent that lives inside VS Code and can create/edit files, run terminal commands, use the browser, and complete complex software tasks autonomously. Supports any API-compatible LLM including Claude, GPT-4, and local models.

Llama.cpp is a highly optimized inference engine for running Llama-family and other LLMs in pure C++ with minimal dependencies. Enables fast inference on CPUs via quantization, powers many local AI tools under the hood, and supports GPU offloading.

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal. It can understand entire codebases, make multi-file edits, run commands, and manage git workflows, offering a powerful alternative to IDE-based AI coding tools.

Ollama makes it easy to run open-source large language models like Llama, Mistral, and CodeLlama locally on your computer. It handles model management, optimization, and provides a simple API, keeping all data private on your hardware.

The OpenAI API provides developer access to GPT-4o, DALL-E, Whisper, and other models for building AI applications. It supports text, image, audio, and function calling capabilities with comprehensive documentation and SDKs.

Zed is a next-generation, high-performance code editor written in Rust. Features built-in AI coding assistance, real-time collaboration, and lightning-fast performance — even with large codebases.

Jan is an open-source ChatGPT alternative that runs completely offline on your computer. Download and run models locally with a clean chat interface, model hub, and an OpenAI-compatible API server built in. Supports Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Mistral AI offers both open-weight and commercial frontier language models through its API. Models include Mistral Large, Mixtral 8x7B, and Codestral. Strong multilingual support, function calling, and competitive pricing make it a top European AI provider.

Replicate lets you run open-source machine learning models with a cloud API — no infrastructure setup required. Access thousands of models including image generators, language models, and audio tools. Pay per second of compute used.

Modal lets you run Python functions on the cloud with automatic scaling, GPU access, and zero infrastructure management. Ideal for ML inference endpoints, data pipelines, and AI batch jobs. Write cloud functions with simple Python decorators.

Together AI provides fast, low-cost inference for leading open-source models including Llama 3, Mistral, and Qwen. Features fine-tuning, custom model deployment, and a serverless API with industry-leading speed and competitive pricing.

Mintlify is a developer documentation platform with AI-powered writing assistance that generates documentation from code and keeps it up to date. Powers the docs of 1000+ companies including Anthropic and Groq with beautiful, searchable documentation sites.

Cerebras uses its revolutionary wafer-scale chip technology to deliver over 1000 tokens per second for LLM inference. Offers an API for Llama-based models at speeds far exceeding traditional GPU inference, making real-time AI applications feasible.

Snyk uses AI to automatically detect and fix security vulnerabilities, code quality issues, and license compliance problems in code, containers, and IaC. DeepCode AI suggests secure code fixes inline while developers write code.

Aider is an open-source command-line AI coding tool that lets you pair program with LLMs in your terminal. Works with your existing git repo and supports Claude, GPT-4, and local models.

v0 by Vercel generates production-ready React UI components from text prompts and images. It creates accessible, responsive components using shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS, making frontend development faster for React developers.

RunPod provides on-demand and spot GPU instances for AI training, inference, and fine-tuning at competitive prices. Features one-click templates for Stable Diffusion, LLM inference, and custom deployments with serverless endpoint support.

Mintlify is a modern documentation platform with AI-powered writing assistance, auto-generated code examples, and a beautiful default design. Used by Anthropic, Cohere, and 1000s of developer tools.

Warp is a modern, AI-powered terminal that lets you type natural language commands and get shell commands back. Features AI-powered command suggestions, debugging, and an intelligent history with search. Modernizes the terminal experience for developers.

GitHub Copilot Chat is a conversational AI interface built into VS Code and GitHub.com that explains code, suggests fixes, generates tests, and answers programming questions in context. Integrates directly with your codebase for context-aware assistance.

Fireworks AI delivers the fastest inference for open-source LLMs including function calling, JSON mode, and streaming. Optimized for production workloads with compound AI systems and multi-modal model support. Offers generous free credits to start.

Replit is a browser-based IDE with an AI coding assistant that can build full applications from natural language descriptions. It handles hosting, deployment, and collaboration, making it ideal for prototyping and learning to code.

The Vercel AI SDK provides TypeScript tools for building AI-powered streaming interfaces. It supports multiple LLM providers, offers React hooks for chat UIs, and simplifies building AI features into Next.js and other web applications.

Windsurf by Codeium is an AI code editor featuring Cascade, an agentic AI that can autonomously navigate codebases, run terminal commands, and make multi-file changes. It combines copilot-style suggestions with autonomous coding agents.

Devin is an autonomous AI software engineer by Cognition AI. It can plan and execute complex engineering tasks, set up dev environments, debug code, build and deploy applications, and work for hours without human input.

Harness is an AI-native DevOps platform that powers CI/CD pipelines, feature flags, cloud cost management, and chaos engineering. Its AI Development Intelligence analyzes pipeline performance and automatically optimizes deployments.

Applitools uses AI-powered visual AI to detect visual bugs and regressions in web and mobile applications. Its Eyes platform compares screenshots intelligently — ignoring irrelevant differences while catching real visual defects.

Cody by Sourcegraph uses code graph context to provide more accurate completions, explanations, and fixes than other AI coding tools. Understands your entire codebase, not just the current file.

Windsurf by Codeium is an agentic AI code editor featuring Cascade, an AI agent that can complete multi-step coding tasks autonomously. Cascade understands your entire codebase, suggests fixes, and can write, test, and run code end-to-end.

Qodo (formerly CodiumAI) generates meaningful tests, analyzes code behavior, and reviews pull requests for bugs and quality issues. Focuses on code integrity by suggesting tests that explore edge cases developers miss.

Continue is an open-source AI coding assistant that integrates into VS Code and JetBrains. Supports any LLM provider, custom models, and slash commands for a fully customizable coding experience.

Lovable is an AI-powered development platform that creates complete web applications from natural language descriptions. Features GitHub integration, Supabase backend, and instant deployment.

GPT4All by Nomic AI is a free open-source ecosystem for running LLMs locally on CPUs and GPUs. Features a simple desktop chat application, a model library of 1000+ models, and a developer SDK. No GPU required for many models.

Supermaven offers ultra-fast autocomplete with a 300K token context window, making it more context-aware than competitors. Works as a VS Code extension and JetBrains plugin.

Cohere provides enterprise-grade language AI for search, content generation, and text classification. Its Command, Embed, and Rerank models power RAG applications, semantic search, and text analysis for businesses at scale.

Codeium provides free AI code autocomplete supporting 70+ programming languages across all major IDEs. It offers intelligent suggestions, natural language search within codebases, and in-editor chat, all without requiring a credit card.

Bolt.new by StackBlitz lets you prompt, edit, and deploy full-stack web applications entirely in the browser. It uses AI to generate complete projects with frontend, backend, and database code, deployable with one click.

Amazon Q Developer is AWS's AI coding assistant with deep knowledge of the AWS ecosystem. Offers code generation, security scanning, and infrastructure-as-code for cloud developers.

Testim uses machine learning to create and maintain automated tests that are resilient to UI changes. Its AI identifies the best locators for elements, self-heals broken tests, and speeds up test creation significantly.

Anyscale provides a managed platform built on the Ray open-source framework for distributed AI and Python workloads. Enables teams to scale ML training, batch inference, and online serving from a single unified compute platform.

Replit combines a browser-based IDE with powerful AI coding features including Ghostwriter for code completion, AI debugging, and one-click deployment. Perfect for learning and prototyping.

Magic builds large-scale software systems autonomously. Its AI can understand million-token codebases, generate entire modules, and work end-to-end on complex engineering tasks.

Moderne enables engineering teams to safely refactor, migrate, and remediate vulnerabilities across thousands of repositories at once using OpenRewrite recipes and AI. Automates framework upgrades and security fixes organization-wide.

Tabnine Enterprise trains a private AI model on your organization's codebase to provide hyper-personalized code completions that match your coding patterns. Runs fully on-premise or in a private cloud with zero data sharing.

Mabl is a low-code intelligent test automation platform that uses AI to create, execute, and maintain functional and performance tests. Auto-healing tests adapt to application changes automatically.

Grit automates large-scale code migrations, dependency upgrades, and refactoring tasks. It understands code patterns and can safely transform entire codebases while maintaining correctness.

AI21 Labs provides the Jamba long-context model and specialized task APIs for paraphrasing, summarization, grammar correction, and text segmentation. The Jamba model combines Transformer and Mamba architectures for efficient long-context processing.

Vast.ai is a decentralized GPU marketplace connecting AI researchers and developers with GPU owners worldwide. Offers the cheapest available GPU compute by bidding on idle hardware, ideal for cost-sensitive training and inference workloads.

Refact.ai is an open-source AI coding assistant that can be self-hosted for complete privacy. Features fine-tuning on your codebase, code completion, and chat. Supports VS Code and JetBrains with models that learn your specific coding patterns.

Pieces is an on-device AI toolkit that saves, searches, and reuses code snippets with context. It learns from your workflow and surfaces the right code at the right time.

Plandex is an open-source terminal-based AI coding agent built for large, real-world software projects. Uses long-running agents with built-in planning, versioning, and automatic context management to tackle complex multi-file coding tasks reliably.

Mend (formerly WhiteSource) is an application security platform using AI to detect vulnerabilities in open-source dependencies and containers. AI prioritizes real risks and auto-generates remediation PRs.

Tabnine offers AI code completions with a focus on code privacy and security. It can run models locally or on private infrastructure, making it suitable for enterprises with strict data policies. Supports 30+ languages and all major IDEs.

Aleph Alpha is a German AI company offering the Luminous family of models and the Pharia LLM for sovereign European AI deployments. Specializes in explainability, data sovereignty, and on-premise deployment for government and regulated industries.

Mutable AI accelerates software development with AI-powered autocomplete, codebase-aware chat, and automated documentation generation. Features Wiki that auto-generates and keeps documentation synchronized with code changes.

Sweep is an AI software developer that responds to GitHub issues and creates pull requests automatically. Assign an issue to Sweep and it reads the code, plans a fix, and opens a PR.

Devin by Cognition Labs is an autonomous AI software engineer that can plan, code, debug, and deploy entire projects independently. It sets up its own development environment and works through complex, multi-step engineering tasks.

Banana.dev is a serverless GPU platform for deploying machine learning models as scalable API endpoints. Build once and scale to any traffic level with automatic cold-start management and pay-per-second billing for AI inference workloads.