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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
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| Category | AI Coding | — |
| Description | AI-native code editor built on VS Code with deep codebase indexing and a credit-based pricing model. Reached 1M+ monthly active users in 2025 and added a Marketplace for extensions and JetBrains plugin support. The Composer agent can apply multi-file edits with a single instruction, making it the most popular dedicated AI IDE among developers surveyed in Stack Overflow 2025. | v0 by Vercel generates React UI components from text descriptions and screenshots. Describe what you want or upload a design, and get production-ready code using shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS that you can deploy directly to Vercel. |
| Codebase indexing for whole-repository context in completions | Supported | Not supported |
| Composer: multi-file AI edit agent with diff review before applying | Supported | Not supported |
| Chat mode with @ references for files, docs, symbols, and web | Supported | Not supported |
| Credit-based pricing with premium models (Claude 4.6, GPT-4o, o3) | Supported | Not supported |
| Cursor Marketplace for extensions and community tools | Supported | Not supported |
| JetBrains plugin (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm) as of 2025 | Supported | Not supported |
| Shadow workspace: preview AI changes before applying to active files | Supported | Not supported |
| Notepads for reusable context templates across sessions | Supported | Not supported |
| Text-to-UI generation | Not supported | Supported |
| Screenshot to code | Not supported | Supported |
| shadcn/ui components | Not supported | Supported |
| Tailwind CSS | Not supported | Supported |
| React/Next.js output | Not supported | Supported |
| Iterative refinement | Not supported | Supported |
| Code export | Not supported | Supported |
| Direct Vercel deploy | Not supported | Supported |
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