BAML vs Chat2DB vs Cursor vs Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
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Cursor
The AI-first code editor that knows your entire codebase — built for d...
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Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码
Alibaba's AI coding assistant
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.7 / 10 | 7.8 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | Community edition — full SQL client, visual editor, 16 DB connections, no built-in AI | 2-week free trial with full features | Permanently free Individual Edition (no Agent turn cap); Individual Pro Edition is free during a limited preview period and includes up to 50 Agent conversation turns per month |
| Paid from | — | Pro: $20/month (or $180/year); Enterprise: custom pricing | $20/month (Pro); usage-based overages can raise bills | USD 32/user/month (Enterprise Dedicated Edition, minimum 100 users) |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | Over 1 million users (self-reported, as of 2025) | 1m+ developers | Over 13 million plugin downloads total by May 2025 (was 9 million by January 2025) |
| Founded | — | 2023 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | CodePhiliaX (independent; originally incubated under Alibaba open-source) | Anysphere | Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba Cloud Computing Co. Ltd., a division of Alibaba Group) |
| Verdict | BAML takes an unusual but compelling approach: treat prompts as typed functions with schemas, generating reliable structured outputs even from models without native tool-calling. The IDE tooling and multi-language codege... |
Chat2DB earns its position as the most-starred Text-to-SQL tool on GitHub through sheer breadth: 30+ database engines, 10+ LLM backends, a full desktop client, and an AI-generated dashboard layer — all in one freemium pa... |
Cursor is the most polished AI-first code editor available, a VS Code fork that bakes model-aware autocomplete, multi-file edits and chat-with-your-codebase into the core editing loop. Tab completion and the Agent mode a... |
Tongyi Lingma (通义灵码) is Alibaba Cloud's AI coding assistant, offering inline completion, repo-aware chat, and increasingly agentic multi-file edits across VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, backed by the Qwen-Coder models.... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.