CodeTogether vs Duckly

CodeTogether helps organizations track the cost and value of AI-assisted software work, with real-time collaboration across IDEs. It records AI spending and human time in IDEs, terminals, and agent sessions, then assigns a price and value to delivered pull requests and calculates value per dollar. Teams can code, debug, and review together, joining from an IDE or browser. Plugins are listed for VS Code, IntelliJ-based IDEs, Eclipse, and Visual Studio; a plugin can track agentic command-line tools running inside that IDE. CodeTogether is offered as SaaS or for on-premises deployment inside a private network. Starter costs $10 a month per developer for up to 25 developers, while Business costs $49 a month per developer for unlimited team size; both list a 10% discount for annual licenses. Enterprise pricing is by custom quote. A free plan and free trial are listed. CodeTogether requires SSO for authentication. Its AI documentation currently lists only GitHub as a source-control connector, without Bitbucket, GitLab, or Azure DevOps connectors. The company says it does not store code or train on customer data.

Duckly is an IDE plugin for real-time collaboration between developers using different development environments. Multiple developers can work in the same file through shared code, while audio, video, screen sharing, chat, and terminal sharing run alongside the IDE. Terminal integration installs through npm, and write access can be enabled with the `duckly share --w` command. Listed editors include VS Code, VS Codium, and IntelliJ-based tools such as WebStorm, PyCharm, PhpStorm, CLion, Rider, RubyMine, AppCode, Android Studio, DataGrip, and GoLand; a Chrome extension is also listed. Duckly says IDE files are shared peer-to-peer with end-to-end encryption and do not pass through its servers. Calls and chat with four or fewer participants use peer-to-peer end-to-end encryption; with a fifth participant, calls switch to cloud infrastructure. The Free plan costs nothing and allows two participants without video calls. Hacker costs $6 a month for three participants; Team costs $10 per member per month for up to 60.