Devv AI vs Cursor vs Qwen Code vs Chat2DB
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Devv AI
AI search engine for developers, now pivoting into a coding agent
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Cursor
AI-first VS Code fork — agentic, codebase-aware editing
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.8 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 | 7.7 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free plan with limited daily searches/queries; no account required for basic use | Hobby plan — standing free tier (not just a trial), 2,000 completions / 50 slow premium requests per month, no card required | — | Community edition — full SQL client, visual editor, 16 DB connections, no built-in AI |
| Paid from | — | $20/month (Pro); Pro+ $60/month; Ultra $200/month; Teams $40/user/month | — | Pro: $20/month (or $180/year); Enterprise: custom pricing |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | 1m+ developers | — | Over 1 million users (self-reported, as of 2025) |
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 | — | 2023 |
| Maker | Bohan Jiang | SpaceX | — | CodePhiliaX (independent; originally incubated under Alibaba open-source) |
| Verdict | Devv AI's original pitch still holds up: a search index trained on real docs, GitHub code, and Stack Overflow beats generic web search when you're debugging an unfamiliar library or exploring a repo you didn't write. Git... |
Cursor is the most polished AI-first code editor going — a VS Code fork that bakes model-aware autocomplete, multi-file agent edits and chat-with-your-codebase into the core editing loop. Tab completion and Composer are... |
Qwen Code is what you'd expect from an open-source fork of Gemini CLI retooled for Qwen3-Coder: the same terminal-first workflow and project-context system, now provider-agnostic across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Alib... |
Chat2DB earns its GitHub crown through breadth: 30+ database engines, 10+ LLM backends including Qwen and DeepSeek, and a functional free Community edition under Apache 2.0. Pro runs $39.80/month ($19.80/month billed ann... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.