Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Daily install trends of AI coding extensions in VS Code
For the past 4 years, I've been tracking the install counts of AI coding extensions in the Visual Studio Code marketplace (GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, etc.) Today, I built an interactive dashboard that lets you see daily install counts for any of them over time. The chart shows GitHub Copilot by default, and you can overlay or swap in any of the other 20+ tools to compare. You can also see important dates in each tool's history (pricing changes, major releases, etc.) and how daily installs changed around those dates. Important caveats: 1) This only tracks VS Code extension…
This interactive dashboard displays four years of daily install data for over 20 AI coding extensions in Visual Studio Code, including GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex. Users can view individual tools or… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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GitHub Agent HQ▲192Run Claude, Codex & Copilot directly in GitHub & VS Code
Feb 2026 · github.blog · its alternatives →
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A VS Code extension to track your 100 Days of Code progress.
2020 · antenna.dev · its alternatives →
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Search millions of open source repos without leaving the IDE
2022 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, we’re Nate and Ty, co-founders of Continue, an open-source autopilot for software development built to be deeply customizable and continuously learn from development data. It consists of an extended language server and (to start) a VS Code extension. Our GitHub is https://github.com/continuedev/continue. You can watch a demo of Continue and download the extension at https://continue.dev — — — A growing number of developers are replacing Google + Stack Overflow with Large Language Models (LLMs) as their primary approach to get help, similar to how…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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See exactly how much you spend on Claude, across every tool
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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RankDevs▲197Track, analyse and increase your programming activity
2025 · rankdevs.com · its alternatives →
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hi guys. been working on something i think is fundamentally missing in today's workflow with ai agents. vcs. i find myself struggling with questions that agents can't answer like "why did you do it?", "when did u delete this folder? why?", etc. or trying to /rewind (after a /compact...) or basically `bisect` to find when and why something was done by the agent in the current / previous session. just like git did for code, i think we are the same core capabilities with ai agents so... i developed an open source solution for that (currently supporting claude code) would love to…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Skilled▲76Dashboard to find agent skills you no longer need
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Buildermark▲93I made Buildermark to see exactly how much of my code is generated by my coding agents vs what I was writing by hand. For this project, it ended up being 364 agent conversations writing 94% of the code. Browse all of those here: https://demo.buildermark.dev/ It matches edits by your coding agents (scans history in `~/.claude`, '`/.codex', etc.) with git commit diffs. It does formatting-agnostic matching to be robust against auto-formatting and reorganizing code. It's open source and local only, not even any analytics. Everything is automatic... just run the app, open…
Apr 2026 · buildermark.dev · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, We are researchers from ETH Zurich interested in the real-world adoption and impact of Code Agents. To measure this, we built a dashboard, scraping all public PRs on GitHub, analyzing which are created by different code agents (Codex, Jules, Copilot, Devin, etc.), and measuring their merge rates, sliced by various repository and PR characteristics. https://insights.logicstar.ai Since mid-May, we've analyzed over 10 million PRs and already found some interesting trends: Usage is high, but shallow. Agents submit ~7% of all PRs overall, but only ~1–2% on popular repos. Most…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built a free, and completely open source, visual studio code extension, which generates tweets based on commits you select. While I was working on webtilities.com, an idea came to me: wouldn't it be cool that I could market this thing inside my editor. Ah, i'm truly lazy. Well, I spent a week building this thing that I bet no one will need because: * "This wont work. My commit messages are terrible" * "This is stupid, I can just use ChatGPT/Gemini/[Insert Chat Platform] directly" * "This is stupid, I get BILLED for using openai tokens" ... And the list goes on. But, I…
2024 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I’m excited to share VSCode.ai, a community-curated database to help developers find the best AI-powered extensions for Visual Studio Code. As a developer, I’ve been blown away by the wave of AI coding tools but frustrated by the chaos of tracking them. Sorting through forks, standalone extensions, and varied payment models was a headache. I started compiling my research in an Obsidian notebook but realized it belonged on GitHub to benefit others. What it is ----------- VSCode.ai is a searchable database listing AI-powered VSCode tools. Each entry includes a description, key features,…
2025 · vscode.ai · its alternatives →
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VScode extension that lets u run parallel AI CLIs with ease
2025 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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AI-powered coding version tracking and changelog management
2025 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Hey developers I think we're tired of copying and pasting our codes and sharing links using PasteBin, GithubGist, or Slack. What if you could share the codes without copying the link and share them right from your favorite editor? That was the motivation for creating TurboGist. Right now, it's still in the MVP stage, and I'm trying to gather feedback from developers like you. It's available as a beta in the VS Code Extension store. Can you guys check this out? It'd help me a lot. You don't need to pay any penny, 100% FREE. However, I'm working on introducing a self-hosted feature. Besides, a…
2025 · turbogist.dev · its alternatives →
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Track your AI coding usage, trends, insights in one place.
Aug 2026 · usageatlas.com · its alternatives →
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Year in Code▲15Hey HN! I built Year in Code to turn your Claude Code usage into a beautiful Wrapped-style report (like Spotify Wrapped). If you use Claude Code with ccusage, it's super quick to try: Setup (2 minutes): 1. Run: `npx -y ccusage@latest daily --since 20250101 --until 20251231 --json > wrapped.json` 2. Upload at yearincode.xyz/2025 3. Get your report! *What you'll see:* - Total tokens - Activity streaks & patterns - Top models used - Shareable report Key features: - 100% secure: 100% browser processing, no server uploads - 2-minute setup: One npx command, upload JSON, done - Free & open…
Dec 2025 · yearincode.xyz · its alternatives →
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Extension for Visual Studio Code - Search all of your repositories across all branches and all code hosts
2022 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Live % of your code that AI assistants have seen
Jun 2026 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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Code▲20Hey HN, Today we're launching Code, a community-driven, open-source coding agent for your terminal. It's a fork of OpenAI's codex with a focus on developer ergonomics and local control. Key features: - Browser integration – attach to your Chrome via CDP or use a built-in headless browser. You can browse pages, run the CLI in a browser session, and even take screenshots from the terminal. - Multi-agent commands – /plan, /solve and /code orchestrate multiple models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) to propose and implement solutions, with consensus or race options. - Diff viewer – see…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tokimeter▲14Local usage analytics for Claude, Codex, Cursor, Grok & More
Aug 2026 · tokimeter.com · its alternatives →
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VS Code and JetBrains have official Claude Code IDE integration, but Visual Studio doesn't. There's an open GitHub issue with a lot of +1s so I built it myself (check out the gif in the GitHub repo for a visual example). It implements the same protocol the official plugins use, so the Claude CLI connects to it automatically. You don't configure anything, just install the extension and click Launch. The main thing it adds over running Claude in a terminal is that edits open in Visual Studio's native diff viewer instead of auto-applying or prompting you in the terminal. You click Accept or…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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oken-usage , cost-tracking , ai-coding-agent
Jun 2026 · pypi.org · its alternatives →
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Monitor & collaborate on Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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