Chat2DB 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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Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码
Alibaba's AI coding assistant
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.8 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Community edition — full SQL client, visual editor, 16 DB connections, no built-in AI | 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 | 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) | Over 13 million plugin downloads total by May 2025 (was 9 million by January 2025) |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | CodePhiliaX (independent; originally incubated under Alibaba open-source) | Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba Cloud Computing Co. Ltd., a division of Alibaba Group) |
| Verdict | 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... |
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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