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Anshul Ramachandran

Codeium - Free AI-powered code completion for everyone, everywhere

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The modern coding superpower. State-of-the-art suggestions on 30+ languages in your IDE: VSCode, JetBrains, Vim/Neovim, Emacs, and uniquely as a Chrome extension, enabling it on notebooks (Jupyter, Colab, etc), websites like JSFiddle, and web IDEs like Gitpod.

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Anshul Ramachandran
Maker
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👋 Anshul here from the Codeium team! We are super excited to finally launch Codeium on ProductHunt after four months of development and iteration. As software developers ourselves, we have naturally been wow’ed by AI-powered code assistants like Github Copilot. However, we were shocked to learn how many of our developers friends were not using these tools. We soon realized a mix of cost, availability on certain IDEs, and performance on particular languages meant that this technology was not getting the universal adoption we expected to see with this generative AI revolution. So we built Codeium: 💸 Free. 🗒️ Available on more IDEs than anyone else, including a web extension, making Codeium the first such tool to be available in popular web IDEs like Jupyter notebooks, Colab, Deepnote, Gitpod, a long list of websites with embedded code editors, and any other web IDE that uses the OpenVSX registry. 🏅 Competitive quality on popular languages and better quality on niche languages. ⚡️ Lightning fast given our past experience building scalable ML systems. If you want to compare Codeium with other available tools, we compiled an indepth head-to-head analysis (https://www.codeium.com/blog/cod...). We will spare the details here (spoiler: can’t escape the fact that Codeium is industry-leading!). And if you want to get a small taste of what's possible without installing, we set up an interactive playground (https://www.codeium.com/playground) for you to try it out in browser! We are equally proud of building a vibrant Discord community, where we actively take feedback and tweak the product accordingly. We truly believe in developing this tool meant for developers using input from those very developers. We have thousands of developers already using Codeium *daily*, and are excited to invite the ProductHunt community to join the party! 📈
Shoham
Absolutely love this product, after using copilot in the beta I was looking for an alternative which is just as good, and I came across Codeium, and it checked everything on my list, can't wait to see what they have in store!
Anshul Ramachandran
Maker
@shoham_bs Great to hear you've had a good experience so far! We have a lot more exciting features even past code completion coming up soon :)
Fun Ride
@anshulr / @varunkmohan Very interested to try this out. Can you share how you are expecting to monetize this?
Anshul Ramachandran
Maker
@fun_ride would love to get your thoughts! we have ideas on how to monetize, such as an enterprise version or potentially a pro tier with additional features. we have a further answer on our FAQs (https://www.codeium.com/faq) we don't want price to be a reason for you to not consider Codeium over comparable products like Github Copilot, Tabnine, Replit Ghostwriter, and others that all being said, right now we are dead focused in making the absolute best product, learning from our users, and iterating on feedback
Fun Ride
@anshulr Thanks for the reply. I appreciate that you are planning to monetize. Let me try out couple of things and get back to you with some thoughts.
Architeutes
I have used copilot for a long time for free because im a student but then i heard about codium. I decided to try it out and after using it for a while i permanently switched. As far as I can tell the quality is about equal to copilot but its free and also more community driven and not a big corporation like microsoft which is something i like. I recommend anyone to at least give it a try. It only gets better from here and what do you have to loose? Its free.
Anshul Ramachandran
Maker
@architeutes glad to hear it!
Varun Mohan
Maker
Hey folks, I'm Varun, Co-founder and CEO of Exafunction, which has built out Codeium. We're excited to share Codeium, which is a free Github Copilot alternative that not only has comparable quality but also is available on many more platforms. Code-completion is just the beginning of what we are envisioning, but we want to be able to democratize the technology today. We're also building out more intelligent code search capabilities based on natural language that we'll be shipping out to our users within the coming weeks. Please do try us out and join our discord (https://discord.com/invite/3XFf7...) !
Sean Sullivan
I've been using Codeium for a while in Vim and super impressed at the completion quality and performance! Even more impressive knowing that the model is fully trained in house and not just built on top of foundation model APIs. Great work team - very excited to see what's coming next!
Varun Mohan
Maker
@sean_sullivan6 Sean, thanks for the kind words! The fact that the model is fully trained in-house lets us control our costs and also deliver the best experience per language to our users.
CHIRAG SINGHAL
I recently evaluated Codeium as a code completion tool and was impressed with its features. Compared to GitHub Copilot, Codeium offers several advantages in terms of price and availability. It's free to use, while GitHub Copilot charges $10 per month. Additionally, Codeium is available on a wider range of platforms than GitHub Copilot. And the Codeium don't stop giving suggesting if the files contain inappropriate words like GitHub Copilot for example, I was making a tool to help suicidal people and my file had "suicide" word in it and because of that word I was not getting any suggestions from GitHub Copilot while Codeium worked amazingly. However, there are also some drawbacks to using Codeium. In terms of accuracy, my evaluation showed that Codeium's accuracy rate was 25.4%, while GitHub Copilot's was 56%. Additionally, I found that Codeium was slower in comparison to GitHub Copilot. It took me four times longer to complete tasks using Codeium, which I attribute to its higher latency and smaller suggestion list. So, this evaluation was done by me by manually completing the test cases on Feb 5th, 2023. And the time taken by Codeium was 46 minutes while GitHub co-pilot took 11 minutes and 47 seconds to complete all the 163 test cases. Overall, I think that Codeium is best because of its availability and the fact that it is free.
Anshul Ramachandran
Maker
@chirag_singhal1 Good to see you here Chirag, and thanks for the feedback! I remember you performing this evaluation a month or two ago, and I think it would be fair to add some color for the rest of the PH community! As we discussed, this evaluation was purely human eval on the model that is used for the online playground two months ago, which, as a demo, is not reflective of the actual service, and as it was done two months ago, is not reflective of the current state of our technology (we of course waited to reach industry leading before launching on PH!). We'll be publishing updated evaluations on our blog as time goes on, but for now, I'd refer to: - This qualitative comparison across tasks: https://www.codeium.com/blog/cod... - This blog post we wrote with @swyx, where one of the points is that evaluating the model itself isn't a full picture of quality of service: https://lspace.swyx.io/p/what-bu... In terms of latency, I'm puzzled by your experience, and will happily follow up with you separately - I wouldn't be surprised if this is a specific / temporary issue, but I still want to make sure you have the best experience with Codeium. Happy coding!
CHIRAG SINGHAL
@swyx @anshulr i think the qualitative comparision is quite misleading as the ratings were irrationally. For instance, in Machine Learning / Common Packages (Python) example. Codeium needed comment for each task while GitHub copilot only needed first comment and that comment was also auto completed but you typed that comment instead of accepting the suggestion just so, that the time of video increase. And other comments were automatically generated by the github copilot. If you count the keystrokes in the two. The GitHub copilot had much less keystrokes. Like 95 percent less. Like how I think the test could have been done objectively is by calculating the total time tool to get the right answer and calculating the total number of keystrokes in that.
Anshul Ramachandran
Maker
@chirag_singhal1 That section is about the quality of the suggestions, not the latency - I think your suggestion makes sense as a proxy for latency. Copilot was definitely impressive in this example, and that's why overall we rated it slightly higher than Codeium on the quality axis, even with errors in other examples. As reiterated from the blog post, this is another step forward in comparative analysis but shouldn't be treated as an absolute assessment - just like how human eval and other metrics are steps forwards but do not give a complete picture.
Vincent Huang
Great product and team!
Anshul Ramachandran
Maker
@vvhuang Thank you Vincent!
Ajay Saini
Just wanted to give a shoutout to the developers! They are super active on the Codeium Discord community - I had a problem setting up and within a few minutes, someone helped fix my issue! I’ve also noticed other users making suggestions, and the developers actually acting on the feedback. Really impressive for such a small team.
Varun Mohan
Maker
@ajay_saini_725 Thanks Ajay, we're glad you're all set up now!
Sneha Saha
An impressive platform for coders. Great product. Congrats on your launch!
Anshul Ramachandran
Maker
@saha_2001 Thank you Sneha!
Aravind Srinivasan
Amazing product! Got the Vim plugin up and running in just a couple of minutes. The code completion is on par with Copilot and the fact that this is free makes it even more incredible. Kudos to the team!
Anshul Ramachandran
Maker
@aravind_srinivasan Great to hear you got it up and running so quickly, we definitely worked hard to make the setup process super easy and fast (and because it is free, we don't ask for credit card or other payment information!) Happy coding!
Rohan Phadte
Been using Codeium with VSCode for a while now and & it's always magic when it gets what I'm just about to write! Code completions are fast. The developers are great & always responsive to issues in the Discord! They're always making updates - loving the progress & kudos to the team! 💪
Anshul Ramachandran
Maker
@rohan_phadte Glad you're having a good experience so far! We definitely pride ourselves on listening to our users :)
Shawn Thuris
I have the Codeium extension for VS Code installed. This is a great tool with a promising future. I've seen the suggestions improve in just these few weeks. There's no reason *not* to create an account and try it, since you're getting the option to use it free for as long as Codeium is around. I've been bugging my friends and colleagues to sign up. Even if your employer won't let you use it, you can use it on your personal stuff; if you're wary of the telemetry, sign up and *don't* use it, just see how it plays out... you can start using it later when you feel comfortable. I was on the Copilot beta and, overall, Codeium suggestions are right about where they were. There are some weak spots at the moment -- suggestions in C# can look like Java, suggestions in Perl can be a bit rudimentary -- but I expect these to improve. To take a couple of other random examples, the PHP and CSS suggestions are pretty good even though they aren't "featured" areas of expertise like Python and JS. Be smart and sign up, it's free.
Anshul Ramachandran
Maker
@thuris1 "Be smart and sign up, it's free" - love that line!! We know that we won't be able to convince everyone by words alone, so we made the opportunity cost of trying it for yourself (the ultimate test) essentially zero
Maanav Khaitan
This is sick!
Anshul Ramachandran
Maker
@maanav_khaitan Haha we think so too :)
Manas Singh
Kudos @anshulr . Such a well-thought-out product. Eliminating time on boilerplate codes and letting engineers focus on the game changing / novel stuff is such a fantastic idea :) Just curious - Is there any way for the recommender to check the sanity of its suggestions? Is there an in-built execution to check if the suggestion runs for every command it suggests?
Anshul Ramachandran
Maker
@manas_singh6 thanks for the positive words! we don't have in-built execution, but that is purposeful - we want the programmer to be in control, and creating execution checks will more likely cause developers to not pay attention to the code being generated. Codeium generates code in digestable chunks, which developers can quickly verify, accept, and continue on from, and we think that is the best kind of interaction between developer and AI!
Manas Singh
@anshulr Makes sense :)
Akshay Ravikumar
Been using Codeium for months on VSCode! Literally just used it to write a bunch of TypeScript boilerplate. I never used Copilot because I didn't feel like paying for it, but it's been cool to experience the magic of a code completion tool. Look forward to improvements and new features. :)
Anshul Ramachandran
Maker
@akshay_ravikumar Thanks Akshay!
Linkaat
Congrats on the launch! Will surely try this out :)
Jack Gralish
Congrats on the launch! This seems super useful :D
Hayr Hotoca - 1limx.com
congrats!
Hayr Hotoca - 1limx.com
Congrats! Trying it soon.