Convai vs Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码 vs CodeFuse 蚂蚁CodeFuse vs Helicone
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Convai
Voice-first AI NPC SDKs for Unity and Unreal, from ex-NVIDIA devs
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Tongyi Lingma 通义灵码
Alibaba's AI coding assistant — rebranded Qoder CN in May 2026
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CodeFuse 蚂蚁CodeFuse
Ant Group's AI coding assistant
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Helicone
LLM observability via drop-in proxy
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 | 6.4 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 |
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| ASEAN readiness | — | |||
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | Indie Dev tier ~$14/month (10,000 interactions) | 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 | ~$22/month (higher interaction caps, premium models); Enterprise custom | USD 32/user/month (Enterprise Dedicated Edition, minimum 100 users) | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | Over 13 million plugin downloads total by May 2025 (was 9 million by January 2025) | — | — |
| Founded | 2022 | 2023 | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Purnendu Mukherjee, Prashant Mishra | Alibaba Cloud (Alibaba Cloud Computing Co. Ltd., a division of Alibaba Group) | — | — |
| Verdict | Convai is the platform game developers reach for when they want talking NPCs working in-engine fast — several report going from nothing to a pathfinding, conversing character in an afternoon inside Unreal or Unity. The s... |
This is now Qoder CN — Alibaba retired the Tongyi Lingma name on May 20, 2026 and folded the assistant into its Qoder agentic-coding line, with credit-metered pricing arriving the same day. The free-for-everyone era is o... |
CodeFuse is Ant Group's open-source family of code LLMs and agent frameworks (including DevOps-ChatBot and muAgent) aimed at the full software lifecycle, from requirements through coding, testing and operations. Its rele... |
Helicone is a developer-focused observability platform for LLM apps, providing request logging, tracing, cost and latency tracking, caching, and prompt management with a one-line proxy or async integration. It is open-so... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.