Replit

Emergent

Build web and mobile apps with AI — MVP in hours, not weeks.

Rork

Build iOS and Android mobile apps with AI in minutes.

v0 by Vercel

Generate React/Tailwind UI components from a text description.

GitHub Copilot

AI development assistant for GitHub: inline autocomplete, code chat, review, agent mode, and CLI. June 2026: moved to usage-based billing (credits); inline suggestions free on all plans.

Lovable

Lovable builds a working web app from a chat prompt, with Cloud hosting included, billed through a credit system starting at $25/month.

Base44

An AI tool that builds complete apps, including login and a database, from a prompt, without writing code.

Bolt.new

Bolt.new is an AI tool that generates deployable full-stack web apps from natural-language prompts, running entirely in the browser.

Tabnine

AI coding assistant offering intelligent code completion, AI chat for dev workflows, and agents for task execution, adapted to organization's architecture and standards.

Maniana

Text-to-app builder with an AI operations suite (support, planning, marketing) to run the app once shipped.

Figma Make

Prompt-driven Figma tool that turns an idea or an existing design into a functional prototype, interactive interface, or web app. It combines generation, code editing, publishing, and design-system context.

DeepSeek

Chinese AI API provider: V4 Flash and V4 Pro models with ultra-competitive pricing, prompt caching, and 5M free tokens at signup (no credit card required).

Zed

Fast, Rust-built code editor with built-in real-time collaboration and AI edit predictions, free with an optional paid Pro plan.

Cursor

AI-native code editor (VS Code fork) with multi-file Composer edits, an autonomous Agent mode and access to several frontier models.

DigitalOcean

Usage-based cloud hosting with virtual machines, managed Kubernetes, PaaS, and object storage, starting at $4 a month.

Firebase

Firebase is Google's managed backend platform, bundling database, authentication, storage, serverless functions and hosting under one usage-based billing model.

Fly.io

Usage-based platform for deploying containerized apps and databases across global regions, billed by the second instead of a flat subscription.

Heroku

A platform-as-a-service that deploys and runs backend applications via git push, with managed databases and automatic scaling, without managing servers.

Netlify

Netlify hosts modern web apps with Git-based deploys, serverless functions, AI model access and storage, billed through a monthly credit allowance.

Railway

Modern deployment platform (PaaS), simple to use for hosting an app or database.

Render

Modern cloud for apps, APIs, and sites.