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Whether you're a builder at hackathons, a non-techie with a project in mind, a vibe coder creating by feel, or a dev team exploring AI for production workflows—this roundup was made for you. We’ve compared today’s most exciting AI coding platforms across capabilities like full-stack generation, Web3 support, agentic editing, and deployment ease.
This is a living document—if you’ve used these tools in your work or built something cool, feel free to comment or share your experience. We’d love to learn how these platforms are helping you build faster, smarter, or freer.
AI Capability
Web3 Readiness
Deployment Support
Free Tier
Hackathon & Launch Support
Dev Community & Popularity
Team Background & Vision
Tool | AI Strengths | Notable Limitations |
|---|---|---|
Project-aware AI agents, offline mode, strong refactor | Manual deploy | |
Fast Rust editor, Claude & Zeta AI support | No deploy, moderate adoption | |
IDE/CLI/GitHub integrated, Agent Mode | No hosting, online-only | |
Privacy-first, multi-language IDE support | Weak Web3, less hackathon focus | |
Great for beginners, in-browser deploy | Less control, browser limitations |
Tool | Best For | Deployment | Web3 Support |
|---|---|---|---|
MVPs, startups, browser-based fullstack dev | Vercel/Supabase export | Manual ethers.js addable | |
Real-time backend-rich apps, multiplayer | Convex-hosted backend | No native Web3 | |
Frontend-first prototypes with UI polish | GitHub + Vercel deploy | Add wagmi manually |
Tool | Native Web3 Support | Dev-Ready? |
|---|---|---|
Full (Foundry, wagmi, etc.) | Ideal for dapps & contracts | |
Strong | Works well with smart contracts | |
Moderate | Good support for Solidity, SDKs | |
⚠️ Add manually | Great for frontend + wagmi | |
Tool | Hackathon Fit | Dev Support | Popularity Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
High | Strong Discord/dev | Exploding usage in AI/Web3 builders | |
High | Fast-growing user base | $40M ARR, YC-backed | |
High | Huge Vercel/Next.js | Leading in frontend AI gen | |
Good | Real-time focused |
Tool | Highlights |
|---|---|
~100K tokens/day, full-stack builds | |
2K completions/mo + student year free | |
50 AI prompts/month, free editor always | |
Full app backend under free tier | |
$5/mo credits + unlimited basic generation | |
2K completions + 50 chats/month (Free plan) | |
Free tier includes AI + hosting |
Tool | Founders / Owners | Vision Summary |
|---|---|---|
Eric Simons, StackBlitz | Democratize full-stack AI dev in browser | |
Nathan Sobo (ex-Atom) | Fast, collaborative, GPU-accelerated code editing | |
Convex team | One-prompt real-time backend logic generation | |
Guillermo Rauch, Vercel | AI pair for modern UIs, integrated with Vercel deploy | |
Cursor Inc. (VC-funded) | Privacy-first agentic AI IDE with repo-aware agents | |
Goal | Best Tool(s) |
|---|---|
Full AI dapp w/ contract & UI | |
Backend-heavy real-time app | Convex Chef + Zed/Cursor |
Hackathon MVP or pitch | |
Educational or beginner tools | Replit Ghostwriter, Copilot |
Privacy-sensitive enterprise dev | Tabnine, Cursor (offline mode) |
What are you using to code and realize your ideas?
Sphene Labs
Focused on non-Web3 infra |
Ubiquitous | GitHub/MS support | Most used coding AI |
Growing | Rust/open-source | Dev-favorite, gaining fast |
Entry-level | Youthful, global | Strong for teaching/prototyping |
GitHub + OpenAI/Microsoft |
Universal AI pair for every dev, now with autonomous mode |
Codota team | Privacy-first AI coding for enterprise and teams |
Amjad Masad, Replit | Make coding accessible + collaborative, AI-first in browser |
