I see, I guess I'm still living in the stone age lol. Pretty sure you can have that with the free ones as well though, but a bit more work required to set it up probably.
Which do you prefer, and have you built anything cool with it yet?
Right. Yes I use my own API keys, so I have unlimited pretty much unlimited use. But I gotta pay for my usage of course. Another thing I like about using the APIs directly is the flexibility -- I can use any model I like in my dev environment. Claude 4 Sonnet is crazy powerful, but I admittedly haven't tried Gemini yet, which is apparently also really good.
i'm using continue.dev in vscode. Pretty much the same thing I think. I really like it
Yes continue, roo-code and cline, all of them free. we only need paid APIs.
hadn't heard of those others. Noted. I'm probably misunderstanding something, but why do you only need paid ones?
Paid ones have multi agent model, multiple execution agents in background with cursor and windsurf.
I see, I guess I'm still living in the stone age lol. Pretty sure you can have that with the free ones as well though, but a bit more work required to set it up probably.
Which do you prefer, and have you built anything cool with it yet?
Free ones have resource limits. I use windsurf and trae free version the most as they have decent models in it.
Right. Yes I use my own API keys, so I have unlimited pretty much unlimited use. But I gotta pay for my usage of course. Another thing I like about using the APIs directly is the flexibility -- I can use any model I like in my dev environment. Claude 4 Sonnet is crazy powerful, but I admittedly haven't tried Gemini yet, which is apparently also really good.