HiCode vs Refact.ai
HiCode
hinow.aiRefact.ai
refact.aiSide by side
| Figure | HiCode | Refact.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $499/mo | $10/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 3 |
| Spec score · AI Coding Assistants | 8.7 (#29) | 9.3 (#5) |
| Coding agent | Yes | Yes |
| Chat assistance | Yes | Yes |
| Codebase indexing | Yes | Yes |
| Code completion | Yes | Refact.ai predicts code in real time and says its completion uses Qwen2.5-Coder and retrieval-augmented generation. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Support | HiNow Pro and HiNow Max list priority support. | The enterprise offering includes dedicated assistance from engineers, priority support, and onboarding. |
| Terminal access | Yes | Yes |
Plans
HiCode
- FreeFree
- HiNow Plus$4,990 a month
- HiNow Pro$12,990 a month
- HiNow Max$499 a month
In their own words
Refact.ai
Refact.ai is a free, open-source autonomous AI coding agent for software development. It provides real-time code completion, in-IDE chat and agent workflows that can plan, execute and deploy coding tasks while letting users preview and control the process. Chat supports natural-language questions, editing, debugging and code generation. Repository analysis, retrieval-augmented generation and codebase indexing provide project-aware context, and terminal access is available. The maker says it supports more than 25 programming languages. Plugins are listed for VS Code and JetBrains, with Visual Studio, Neovim and Sublime Text marked beta. Platforms include Windows, macOS, Linux, API, extension and self-hosted deployment. Local use can connect to configured providers or runtimes such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama, LM Studio and vLLM. The Free plan costs nothing for personal and hobby projects. Pro costs $10 a month for professional use. Hosted accounts and cloud features are being retired.