AskCodi vs GitHub Copilot vs Windsurf vs Blackbox AI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
AskCodi
Multi-model AI dev chat — GPT-5, Claude and Gemini from $5/month
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GitHub Copilot
The most widely adopted AI pair programmer, native to GitHub
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Windsurf
Agentic AI IDE — rebranded Devin Desktop by Cognition, June 2026
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Blackbox AI
Multi-model coding agent that also copies code out of videos.
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| RECATOOLS Score | 5.8 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | 50 requests per month | Free plan open to all GitHub users (not just students/OSS maintainers) | — | Free code completions and limited searches |
| Paid from | $9.99/month (Personal) | Pro $10/mo, Pro+ $39/mo, Max $100/mo, Business $19/user/mo, Enterprise $39/user/mo | Free; Pro $20/month; Max $200/month; Teams $80/month + $40/seat/month | $9.99/month (Pro) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 100k+ developers | 4.7m+ paid subscribers | Not reliably disclosed | 10m+ developers |
| Founded | — | — | 2021 | 2021 |
| Maker | Assistiv Labs | Microsoft | Varun Mohan, Douglas Chen | Ahmad Al-Masri, Andrew Tan |
| Verdict | AskCodi has quietly become a different product: less budget coding assistant, more multi-model gateway. One subscription buys chat access to GPT-5, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Mistral, Qwen and DeepSeek, with custom agents, V... |
For teams already on GitHub, Copilot remains the lowest-friction AI coding assistant: inline completions, chat, multi-file edits and an agent mode, native in VS Code, JetBrains and GitHub itself, with a choice of GPT, Cl... |
Windsurf is now Devin Desktop: Cognition acquired the Codeium-built IDE in July 2025 and folded it into the Devin brand on June 2, 2026. The product itself remains a strong agentic editor — VS Code-derived, with the Rust... |
Blackbox AI is a coding assistant built around access to 300+ AI models through a "Chairman" routing layer that dispatches a task to several models and picks the best output, plus an autonomous CyberCoder agent for multi... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.