Alternatives to ChatGPT - Genie AI
ChatGPT - Genie AI is a plugin by genieai: Your best AI pair programmer. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 8 plugins cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match ChatGPT - Genie AI and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. Claude Code Usage leads the list (active in the last 30 days; open source (MIT)). Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with ChatGPT - Genie AI.
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8 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches ChatGPT - Genie AI (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
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Claude Code UsageGrowthJack
Local Claude Code and OpenAI Codex token usage, cache, and quota tracker in the VS Code status bar
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 70Last active Oct 18, 2026VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2
ChatGPT Copilotfeiskyer
An VS Code ChatGPT Copilot Extension
- Most GitHub stars here (163)
- Open source (ISC)
★ 163Last active Apr 11, 2026VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium
DFreshness: D–Security: not graded yet - 3
Claude Code & Codex Status Barblueming
Claude Code and OpenAI Codex in one status bar.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 2Last active Oct 21, 2026VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4
otak-usageodangoo
Otak Usage displays estimated API-equivalent costs of Claude Code and OpenAI Codex CLI sessions in the VS Code status bar, with per-model breakdowns for today…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 1Last active Oct 23, 2026VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5
Launch the OpenAI Codex AI coding agent in a side terminal from the VS Code editor toolbar.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 1Last active Oct 21, 2026VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6
Agent Monitor: Claude Code, Google Antigravity & Codexleandrosilvaferreira
Monitor local Claude Code, OpenAI Codex and Google Antigravity sessions, agents and subagents in one VS Code sidebar.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
Last active Oct 22, 2026VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7
vscode-openaiAndrewButson
vscode-openai seamlessly incorporates OpenAI features into VSCode, providing integration with SCM, Code Editor and Chat.
- Open source (MIT)
★ 111Last active May 6, 2025VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium
FFreshness: F–Security: not graded yet - 8
Swapper Codexzixfel
Manage and switch multiple OpenAI Codex / ChatGPT accounts directly in VS Code.
VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet