CodeGPT vs GitLab Duo Code Suggestions

CodeGPT is an AI coding assistant and agent platform for developers and enterprises. It provides code completion, chat, codebase indexing and an agent that can search code, propose an editable plan, create or edit files, carry out multi-step tasks and verify steps. It integrates with Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs including IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm and PhpStorm. Users can work with cloud models or local models through Ollama and LM Studio, including offline workflows for local-model use. With bring-your-own-key access, API keys are stored locally and requests go to the provider the user selects. The free plan lasts indefinitely and includes 10 daily Economy interactions, a $1.00 premium-model welcome credit, unlimited BYOK use and local models. Professional costs $10 a month. Economy access allows one concurrent interactive session and excludes parallel automation and API-style batch workloads. CodeGPT also lists on-premises and private-cloud deployment options.

GitLab Duo Code Suggestions provides code completion and generation in supported editors. It can complete code blocks, help define function logic, generate tests, and suggest common patterns such as regular expressions. Supported editors include Visual Studio Code, GitLab Web IDE, Microsoft Visual Studio 2022, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, and Eclipse; GitLab lists more than 14 supported languages, including C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, and TypeScript. The feature is available on the GitLab.com Free tier with GitLab Credits, and self-managed GitLab instances can use it through a secure connection to GitLab.com. GitLab says it does not train generative AI models and that private, non-public customer code stored in GitLab is not training data. Suggestions are scanned to help prevent sensitive information such as API keys or passwords from being shared. GitLab warns that high demand may degrade performance or cause unexpected downtime. GitLab Duo Pro is listed at $19 per user per month.