What do independent developers recommend as the best value IDE assistant since the latest GitHub Copilot price hike?
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Fan-out diagram
The searches the AI actually ran for this prompt.
SEED QUERY
What do independent developers recommend as the best value IDE assistant since the latest GitHub Copilot price hike?
1 real search · 1 real-search pass
GitHub Copilot price increase 2026 independent developers best value IDE assistant alternatives Reddit Cursor Windsurf Claude Code pricingGoogle ↗
OBSERVEDComparison
Badge and edge weight = share of passes that produced the query. Hover a query for its intent and routing format.
Query classes
Google's semantic query class for every sub-query: what kind of answer each search is after, simulated vs real.
ChatGPT real searches (1)
Classes come from the query-classifier (a local Laya model).
Searches and sources
ChatGPT1 real searches · gpt-6
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