Best AI Models for Visual Studio Code
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Compare the Top AI Models that integrate with Visual Studio Code as of November 2025
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This a list of AI Models that integrate with Visual Studio Code. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Visual Studio Code. View the products that work with Visual Studio Code in the table below.
What are AI Models for Visual Studio Code?
AI models are systems designed to simulate human intelligence by learning from data and solving complex tasks. They include specialized types like Large Language Models (LLMs) for text generation, image models for visual recognition and editing, and video models for processing and analyzing dynamic content. These models power applications such as chatbots, facial recognition, video summarization, and personalized recommendations. Their capabilities rely on advanced algorithms, extensive training datasets, and robust computational resources. AI models are transforming industries by automating processes, enhancing decision-making, and enabling creative innovations. Compare and read user reviews of the best AI Models for Visual Studio Code currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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LM-Kit.NET
LM-Kit
LM-Kit.NET now lets your .NET apps run the latest open models entirely on device, including Meta Llama 4, DeepSeek V3-0324, Microsoft Phi 4 (plus mini and multimodal variants), Mistral Mixtral 8x22B, Google Gemma 3, and Alibaba Qwen 2.5 VL, so you get cutting-edge language, vision, and audio performance without calling any external service. A continuously updated model catalog with setup instructions and quantized builds is available at docs.lm-kit.com/lm-kit-net/guides/getting-started/model-catalog.html, letting you integrate new releases quickly while keeping latency low and data fully private.Starting Price: Free (Community) or $1000/year -
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BLACKBOX AI
BLACKBOX AI
BLACKBOX AI is an advanced AI-powered platform designed to accelerate coding, app development, and deep research tasks. It features an AI Coding Agent that supports real-time voice interaction, GPU acceleration, and remote parallel task execution. Users can convert Figma designs into functional code and transform images into web applications with minimal coding effort. The platform enables screen sharing within IDEs like VSCode and offers mobile access to coding agents. BLACKBOX AI also supports integration with GitHub repositories for streamlined remote workflows. Its capabilities extend to website design, app building with PDF context, and image generation and editing.Starting Price: Free -
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GPT-4.1
OpenAI
GPT-4.1 is an advanced AI model from OpenAI, designed to enhance performance across key tasks such as coding, instruction following, and long-context comprehension. With a large context window of up to 1 million tokens, GPT-4.1 can process and understand extensive datasets, making it ideal for tasks like software development, document analysis, and AI agent workflows. Available through the API, GPT-4.1 offers significant improvements over previous models, excelling at real-world applications where efficiency and accuracy are crucial.Starting Price: $2 per 1M tokens (input) -
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GPT-5.1 Pro
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Pro is the highest-performance version of the GPT-5.1 model family, designed for research-grade reasoning and advanced analytical workloads. It delivers deeper, more structured thinking, making it ideal for complex problem-solving across coding, science, finance, law, and technical research. Unlike the Instant and Thinking versions, GPT-5.1 Pro is built to maintain accuracy under heavy cognitive load, producing clearer logic and more reliable multi-step reasoning. Pro users also gain access to extended context windows, allowing significantly longer inputs and deeper information processing. While it supports the full range of ChatGPT features, GPT-5.1 Pro is optimized for precision, rigor, and high-stakes tasks. It is available exclusively to ChatGPT Pro and Business customers. -
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Grok Code Fast 1
xAI
Grok Code Fast 1 is a high-speed, economical reasoning model designed specifically for agentic coding workflows. Unlike traditional models that can feel slow in tool-based loops, it delivers near-instant responses, excelling in everyday software development tasks. Built from scratch with a programming-rich corpus and refined on real-world pull requests, it supports languages like TypeScript, Python, Java, Rust, C++, and Go. Developers can use it for everything from zero-to-one project building to precise bug fixes and codebase Q&A. With optimized inference and caching techniques, it achieves impressive responsiveness and a 90%+ cache hit rate when integrated with partners like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Cline. Offered at just $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens, Grok Code Fast 1 strikes a strong balance between speed, performance, and affordability.Starting Price: $0.20 per million input tokens -
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GPT-5.1-Codex
OpenAI
GPT-5.1-Codex is a specialized version of the GPT-5.1 model built for software engineering and agentic coding workflows. It is optimized for both interactive development sessions and long-horizon, autonomous execution of complex engineering tasks, such as building projects from scratch, developing features, debugging, performing large-scale refactoring, and code review. It supports tool-use, integrates naturally with developer environments, and adapts reasoning effort dynamically, moving quickly on simple tasks while spending more time on deep ones. The model is described as producing cleaner and higher-quality code outputs compared to general models, with closer adherence to developer instructions and fewer hallucinations. GPT-5.1-Codex is available via the Responses API route (rather than a standard chat API) and comes in variants including “mini” for cost-sensitive usage and “max” for the highest capability.Starting Price: $1.25 per input -
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StarCoder
BigCode
StarCoder and StarCoderBase are Large Language Models for Code (Code LLMs) trained on permissively licensed data from GitHub, including from 80+ programming languages, Git commits, GitHub issues, and Jupyter notebooks. Similar to LLaMA, we trained a ~15B parameter model for 1 trillion tokens. We fine-tuned StarCoderBase model for 35B Python tokens, resulting in a new model that we call StarCoder. We found that StarCoderBase outperforms existing open Code LLMs on popular programming benchmarks and matches or surpasses closed models such as code-cushman-001 from OpenAI (the original Codex model that powered early versions of GitHub Copilot). With a context length of over 8,000 tokens, the StarCoder models can process more input than any other open LLM, enabling a wide range of interesting applications. For example, by prompting the StarCoder models with a series of dialogues, we enabled them to act as a technical assistant.Starting Price: Free -
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GPT-5
OpenAI
GPT-5 is OpenAI’s most advanced AI model, delivering smarter, faster, and more useful responses across a wide range of topics including math, science, finance, and law. It features built-in thinking capabilities that allow it to provide expert-level answers and perform complex reasoning. GPT-5 can handle long context lengths and generate detailed outputs, making it ideal for coding, research, and creative writing. The model includes a ‘verbosity’ parameter for customizable response length and improved personality control. It integrates with business tools like Google Drive and SharePoint to provide context-aware answers while respecting security permissions. Available to everyone, GPT-5 empowers users to collaborate with an AI assistant that feels like a knowledgeable colleague.Starting Price: $1.25 per 1M tokens -
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GPT‑5-Codex
OpenAI
GPT-5-Codex is a version of GPT-5 further optimized for agentic coding within Codex, focusing on real-world software engineering tasks (building full projects from scratch, adding features & tests, debugging, large-scale refactors, and code reviews). Codex now moves faster, is more reliable, and works better in real-time across your development environments, whether in terminal/CLI, IDE extension, via the web, in GitHub, or even on mobile. GPT-5-Codex is the default model for cloud tasks and code review; developers can also opt to use it locally via Codex CLI or the IDE extension. It dynamically adjusts how much “reasoning time” it spends depending on task complexity; small, well-defined tasks are fast and snappy; more complex ones (refactors, large feature work) get more sustained effort. Code review is stronger; it catches critical bugs before shipping. -
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GPT-5.1
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 is the latest update in the GPT-5 series, designed to make ChatGPT dramatically smarter and more conversational. The release introduces two distinct model variants: GPT-5.1 Instant, which is described as the most-used model and is now warmer, better at following instructions, and more intelligent; and GPT-5.1 Thinking, which is the advanced reasoning engine that’s been tuned to be easier to understand, faster on straightforward tasks, and more persistent on complex ones. Users' queries are now routed automatically to the variant best-suited to the task. The update emphasizes not just improved raw intelligence but also enhanced communication style; the models are tuned to be more natural, enjoyable to talk to, and better aligned with user intents. The system card addendum notes that GPT-5.1 Instant uses “adaptive reasoning” that lets it decide when to think more deeply before responding, while GPT-5.1 Thinking adapts its thinking time accurately to the question at hand. -
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GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
OpenAI
GPT-5.1-Codex-Max is the high-capability variant of the GPT-5.1-Codex series designed specifically for software engineering and agentic code workflows. It builds on the base GPT-5.1 architecture with a focus on long-horizon tasks such as full project generation, large-scale refactoring, and autonomous multi-step bug and test management. It introduces adaptive reasoning, meaning the system dynamically allocates more compute for complex problems and less for simpler ones, to improve efficiency and output quality. It also supports tool use (IDE-integrated workflows, version control, CI/CD pipelines) and offers higher fidelity in code review, debugging, and agentic behavior than general-purpose models. Alongside Max, there are lighter variants such as Codex-Mini for cost-sensitive or scale use-cases. The GPT-5.1-Codex family is available in developer previews, including via integrations like GitHub Copilot. -
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AlphaCodium
Qodo
AlphaCodium is a research-driven AI tool developed by Qodo to enhance coding with iterative, test-driven processes. It helps large language models improve their accuracy by enabling them to engage in logical reasoning, testing, and refining code. AlphaCodium offers an alternative to basic prompt-based approaches by guiding AI through a more structured flow paradigm, which leads to better mastery of complex code problems, particularly those involving edge cases. It improves performance on coding challenges by refining outputs based on specific tests, ensuring more reliable results. AlphaCodium is benchmarked to significantly increase the success rates of LLMs like GPT-4o, OpenAI o1, and Sonnet-3.5. It supports developers by providing advanced solutions for complex coding tasks, allowing for enhanced productivity in software development. -
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GPT-5-Codex-Mini
OpenAI
GPT-5-Codex-Mini is a compact and cost-efficient version of GPT-5-Codex designed to deliver roughly four times more usage with only a slight tradeoff in capability. It’s optimized for handling routine or lighter programming tasks while maintaining reliable output quality. Developers can access it through the CLI and IDE extension by signing in with ChatGPT, with API access coming soon. The system automatically suggests switching to GPT-5-Codex-Mini when users near 90% of their rate limits, helping extend uninterrupted usage. ChatGPT Plus, Business, and Edu users receive 50% higher rate limits, offering more flexibility for frequent workflows. Pro and Enterprise accounts are prioritized for faster processing, ensuring smoother, high-speed performance across larger workloads. -
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GPT-5.1 Instant
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Instant is a high-performance AI model designed for everyday users that combines speed, responsiveness, and improved conversational warmth. The model uses adaptive reasoning to instantly select how much computation is required for a task, allowing it to deliver fast answers without sacrificing understanding. It emphasizes stronger instruction-following, enabling users to give precise directions and expect consistent compliance. The model also introduces richer personality controls so chat tone can be set to Default, Friendly, Professional, Candid, Quirky, or Efficient, with experiments in deeper voice modulation. Its core value is to make interactions feel more natural and less robotic while preserving high intelligence across writing, coding, analysis, and reasoning. GPT-5.1 Instant routes user requests automatically from the base interface, with the system choosing whether this variant or the deeper “Thinking” model is applied. -
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GPT-5.1 Thinking
OpenAI
GPT-5.1 Thinking is the advanced reasoning model variant in the GPT-5.1 series, designed to more precisely allocate “thinking time” based on prompt complexity, responding faster to simpler requests and spending more effort on difficult problems. On a representative task distribution, it is roughly twice as fast on the fastest tasks and twice as slow on the slowest compared with its predecessor. Its responses are crafted to be clearer, with less jargon and fewer undefined terms, making deep analytical work more accessible and understandable. The model dynamically adjusts its reasoning depth, achieving a better balance between speed and thoroughness, particularly when dealing with technical concepts or multi-step questions. By combining high reasoning capacity with improved clarity, GPT-5.1 Thinking offers a powerful tool for tackling complex tasks, such as detailed analysis, coding, research, or technical explanations, while reducing unnecessary latency for routine queries.
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