BLACKBOX AI vs Codium AI
Both Blackbox AI and Codium offers AI coding assistant solutions for developper to improve their productivity. So which solution is better?
We’ve compiled a comparison utilizing the prevalent parameters we’ve come across in our development experience, coupled with our extensive service to the developer community over numerous years. From our perspective, these parameters represent the critical requirements, challenges, and pain points that AI code assistants should address.
- Functionality: Each company has its own features for developers
- HumanEval (0-shot): Benchmark for Python code completion task (Chen et al., 2021), zero-shot evaluated for pass@1
- Price: Price point for each user in the organization
- Supported IDEs: on which IDE can we find each AI
What is BLACKBOX AI?
BLACKBOX AI completely redefines your coding experience. A codebase represents hours of thought, testing, and above all, coding. There are challenging moments that require great knowledge and concentration, but also frustrating, boring, and tedious moments during certain repetitive but necessary tasks.
BLACKBOX AI has been designed to meet every stage of your development, so you can code faster, but also to enlighten you, and provide precise answers to your questions, saving you valuable time that you could have lost searching for obsolete solutions on specialized forums.
What is Codium?
Codium is the AI coding assistant that analyzes your code and generates meaningful tests to catch bugs before you ship (powered by GPT-3.5&4 & TestGPT-1)
Functionality
Code chat
Both AIs offer a code chat functionality to quickly ask questions. However, Blackbox stands out by offering a more complete code chat experience since it is integrated into the IDE extension, whereas there is a web and mobile version.
Generate test
Both AIs offer automatic test generation based on the codebase.
Autocomplete
BLACKBOX AI offers automatic code completion in the form of suggestions based on the code base of the current project.
IA README
They allow you to easily and effortlessly create a detailed readme file for your code, thus facilitating the understanding and guidance of other developers.
Commit Message Generation
Don’t leave any undocumented changes in your commits. Instead, let the AI take care of writing a detailed commit message for you, reflecting the achievements made.
Share code Link
With BLACKBOX AI, you can directly share code with anyone with just one click by giving them a URL link to your code, allowing anyone to access it from anywhere!
Snippet prompt and code
Save your best snippet for reuse with BLACKBOX AI to save time when coding.
Mobile code chat
BLACKBOX AI offers an Android mobile application that allows you to ask questions and generate code.
AI Agent
BLACKBOX AI offers a wide selection of AI agents, each specializing in their respective fields! You can initiate a conversation with or call upon any of them when crafting your prompt.
Custom Agent
With BLACKBOX AI, you can create your own custom agent based on the data you desire, such as files or websites! This agent can be shared with others if you wish!
Send files
Codium only works with the codebase, while BLACKBOX AI offers to extend the experience by allowing users to upload not only code but also photos or videos, on which they can ask questions.
Github Action
Let AI code for you! BLACKBOX AI offers GitHub action solutions like commenting on code, improving code, or generating bug reports directly in your GitHub repository, thanks to GitHub integration!
Real-Time Knowledge
BLACKBOX AI has real-time knowledge of the world, enabling it to answer questions about recent events, technological breakthroughs, product releases, API documentation, and more importantly, BLACKBOX AI provides sources.
API
Both AIs offer the possibility of accessing their APIs for integration into your project. The difference between the two APIs is that BLACKBOX AI offers the use of its own LLM, while Codium is powered by GPT-3.5 & 4, and TestGPT-1.
HumanEval (0-shot)
Results of the Python code completion task comparing Codium to BLACKBOX AI (Chen et al., 2021), evaluated zero-shot for pass@1. BLACKBOX AI won the completion task with a score of 85.36%, compared to 82% for Codium (using GTP4).
Pricing
- BLACKBOX AI: Free
- Codium Developer: 0$/user/month
- Codium Teams: 19$/user/month
- Codium Enterprise: custom price
BLACKBOX AI offers a completely free service with the exception of the use of its API, which will depend on the number of requests. Codium offers a free plan with limited features.
Supported IDEs
Blackbox AI can be found on the following IDEs: Vs Code, Jupyter Notebook, Chrome extension, Android app, website.
Codium can be found on the following IDEs: VSCode and JetBrains.
As of march 2024, the information in this comparison table is up-to-date to the best of our knowledge. However, the industry is rapidly evolving, and there may be updates that we have not yet captured. We strive for accuracy and fairness; if you have any updates or corrections, even if it shows a competitor in a more favorable light, we encourage you to share them with us.
