Blackbox AI vs Butterfish
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Blackbox AI
AI coding assistant and web IDE with agents code search autocomplete and multi model access, available as a Chrome extension web app and VS Code integration.
Pricing Free / Starts $8 per month
Category coding
Difficulty Beginner
Type Web App
Status Active
Butterfish
Open source shell tool that adds AI prompting to your terminal with transparent prompts, configurable models and logging so you can reason about commands before you run them.
Pricing Free
Category coding
Difficulty Beginner
Type Web App
Status Active
Feature Tags Comparison
Only in Blackbox AI
coding-assistantautocompletecode-searchagentschromevs-code
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Only in Butterfish
terminalcliopen-sourceaidevelopers
Key Features
Blackbox AI
- • Code completion that adapts to your project and editor context
- • Chat to code with multi model prompts
- • Code search across examples
- • Agent that can plan steps and execute tasks with supervision
- • Image and video to code extraction
- • Web IDE with remote execution and shared workspaces
Butterfish
- • Transparent prompts you can edit in a YAML config for full control
- • Verbose mode that logs raw AI requests and responses for auditing
- • Open source code with permissive license for customization
- • Model agnostic design that works with OpenAI compatible APIs
- • Advice and command draft generation directly in the shell
- • Configurable behaviors per project or user profile
Use Cases
Blackbox AI
- → Draft new components faster
- → Debug issues with stepwise fixes and tests
- → Onboard to a repo by querying files
- → Convert tutorial screenshots into editable code
- → Generate test suites and refactors
- → Build prototypes in the web IDE and share links
Butterfish
- → Explaining unfamiliar shell errors while staying in context
- → Drafting safe commands with a visible prompt and chance to edit
- → Generating small scripts that you then review before execution
- → Teaching new teammates shell patterns with auditable AI help
- → Automating repetitive terminal tasks with human checks
- → Running in secure environments with transparent logging
Perfect For
Blackbox AI
Software developers, students, and teams who want multi model code assistance, autocomplete, search, and supervised agents in the browser and IDE
Butterfish
developers, DevOps and power users who want AI help in the terminal without black box prompts or hidden behavior
Capabilities
Blackbox AI
Inline Suggestions Professional
Snippets and Patterns Intermediate
Chat and Refactors Professional
Agent and Web IDE Intermediate
Butterfish
Editable Prompts Basic
Verbose Logging Basic
Commands and Snippets Basic
Open Source and Models Basic
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