Codeium vs FauxPilot
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Codeium
Free autocomplete veteran, now Devin Desktop under Cognition
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FauxPilot
Self-hosted Copilot-API server on your own GPU — now dormant
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 4.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | Unlimited completions and chat for individual developers | Fully free |
| Paid from | $12/user/month (Teams) | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 500k+ developers | 20000+ GitHub stars |
| Founded | 2021 | 2022 |
| Maker | Varun Mohan, Douglas Chen | FauxPilot Community |
| Verdict | The product formerly known as Codeium now lives two rebrands away: Windsurf, then Devin Desktop under Cognition since June 2026. The free plugin line survives — unlimited tab completions and chat across VS Code, JetBrain... |
FauxPilot proved in 2022 that you could run a Copilot-style completion server on your own hardware — Salesforce CodeGen models on NVIDIA Triton, speaking GitHub Copilot's own API — which made it the reference point for t... |
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