Which AI to pick
for the job in front of you

Replit

Environment and hosting in the browser, nothing installed

$20per month

Builds the app and publishes it to a live address straight away, with no environment or server to set up

• Agent builds an app from scratch
• Publishes to a live address from the same window
• Runs in the browser, nothing to install

Cognition (Devin)

An agent takes a ticket and brings back a pull request

$20per seat / month

Works as a performer rather than a prompt: it takes the ticket, runs the tests itself and comes back with a pull request

• Briefed like a person, not like an editor
• Runs tests and fixes failures itself
• Usage counted in ACU, not requests

Cursor

An editor that sees the whole project

$20per month

Indexes the entire repository, so changing one function accounts for where it is called rather than only the open file

• Indexes the whole repository, not the open file
• Agent edits several files in one pass
• Model choice per task

Lovable

An app from a description, with real code at the end

$25per month

Hands the result over as an ordinary GitHub repository, so the project can leave for a developer instead of being locked into the platform

• App assembled from a plain description
• Code pushes to your own GitHub
• Database and auth wired in from the start