AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to GREB by Cheetah AI
instead of indexing the workspace, use gpu accelerated ultra fast greps and fine tuned model, kinda like windsurf fast context. We tried to make it as cost and token efficient as possible while maintaining accuracy and speed.
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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Hey HN! We (Stephan and Thomas) recently open-sourced Semble. We kept running into the same problem while using Claude Code on large codebases: when the agent can't find something directly, it falls back to grep, reading full files or launching subagents. This uses a lot of tokens, and often still misses the relevant code. There are existing tools for this, but they were either too slow to index on demand, needed API keys, or had poor retrieval quality. Semble is our solution for this. It combines static Model2Vec embeddings (using our latest static model: potion-code-16M) with BM25, fused…
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · grep.app · its alternatives →
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Resolve dev tasks & bugs faster with Webvizio MCP
2025 · webvizio.com · its alternatives →
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local-first semantic code search engine. Contribute to kantord/SeaGOAT development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello everyone. I've been working on this experimental editor called Huzzah. I've been working almost exclusively with coding agents since January of this year, and over the past few months I began to feel utterly exhausted by them. They're great, but I'm finding it more and more tedious to write full sentences for every change I want. Not only that, but it seems there's a complexity limit for codebases - beyond a certain point the agent begins confusing itself. I'd like to go back to writing code, but I don't want to go all the way back to fully manual coding. So I've come up with this…
Aug 2026 · danielvaughn.dev · its alternatives →
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Freebuff▲310Free coding agents to kill Claude, Cursor, Replit, and Devin
Aug 2026 · freebuff.com · its alternatives →
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Basin MCP▲168tl;dr - try Basin AI with Cursor/Windsurf, instruction here (https://mcp.basin.ai), and use API key hackernews to gain access. Hey HN — I’m Henry, co-founder of Basin, and I wanted to share something we’ve been working on called Basin MCP, a kind of QA infrastructure for AI coding copilots like Cursor, Windsurf, etc. We built Basin because we kept noticing the same thing: agentic coding tools are great at generating code, but have no idea if the thing they built actually works — or even matches the original intent, and so they're prong to hallucinations. Basically, they have…
2025 · mcp.basin.ai · its alternatives →
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Blazingly fast semantic search for your codebase
2024 · marketplace.visualstudio.com · its alternatives →
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This is a vector index I built that supports insertion and k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) querying, optimized for GPUs. It operates entirely in CUDA and can process queries on half a billion vectors in under 200 milliseconds. The codebase is structured as a standalone library with an HTTP API for remote access. It’s intended for high-performance search tasks—think similarity search, AI model retrieval, or reinforcement learning replay buffers. The codebase is located at https://github.com/rodlaf/BinaryGPUIndex.
2025 · rlafuente.com · its alternatives →
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Author here! Some context: I published this 48 hours ago and it was auto-listed on MCPMarket (the MCP tools directory). Got 700+ organic downloads with zero marketing—developers were actively searching for exactly this solution. The "Git Accelerator" optimization story: Initially used a file walker that took 6.6s on Chromium. Profiling showed 90% was filesystem I/O. The fix: git ls-files returns 480k paths in ~200ms. Added smart heuristics for untracked files (only scan dirs <50k files), bringing total to 0.46s. Why this matters: Agents can't wait 10 seconds for search. Sub-500ms makes…
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ShioriCode▲119Open-source alternative to Codex & Claude Code
May 2026 · shiori.ai · its alternatives →
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VibeShift MCP▲141Hi HN, We are the devs behind VibeShift. We have been building this MCP server to put AI coding assistants in an automatic feedback loop. They code, test, debug, fix everything until we have a fully working, secure code. It tests like a real user, copies network/console and logical errors to give them back to cursor. (1 min demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN_RgQGa8B0) We felt this was the natural next step for AI coding assistants. And with new asynchronous assistants like codex, having a plug & play tester makes sure you don't have to spend time debugging and…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Windsurf is the world's most advanced AI coding assistant for developers and enterprises. Windsurf Editor — the first AI-native IDE that keeps developers in flow.
2021 · exafunction.com · its alternatives →
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Turbocharge Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini & every coding agent: faster, cheaper, with contextual understanding specific to your codebase. - trailhq/Graft
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We just launched Codacy Guardrails, an IDE extension with a CLI for code analysis and MCP server that enforces security & quality rules on AI-generated code in real-time. It hooks into AI coding assistants (like VS Code Agent Mode, Cursor, Windsurf), silently scanning and fixing AI-suggested code that has vulnerabilities or violates your coding standards, while the code it’s being generated. We built this because coding agents can be a double-edged sword. They do boost productivity, but can easily introduce insecure or non-compliant code. One recent research team at NYU found that 40%…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Kill LeetCode. Let candidates prove they can build
Feb 2026 · grepcoder.com · its alternatives →
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Your AI has your code's text, never its map. Fix that.
Jun 2026 · luuuc.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built XRAY MCP after discovering that AI assistants were scanning my projects with plain grep and guessing. I tried direct tree-sitter integration and language servers; both felt heavy for a lightweight tool. ast-grep hit a sweet spot: syntax-aware search in a single binary. XRAY MCP wraps it behind three endpoints—map, find, impact—so a model (or human) can answer questions like “what breaks if I change this function?” on demand. It’s stateless, supports Python/JS/TS/Go, and installs quickly. Repo: https://github.com/srijanshukla18/xray Would love…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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