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Side-by-side: what they do, what they cost, what Kai actually thinks. Pass up to 4 tools via
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Cursor S | Adobe Firefly A | Replicate S | |
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| Tagline | VS Code fork that made AI coding actually work. | Commercially safe image gen, deeply integrated with Photoshop. | Run any open-source AI model with an API call. |
| Category | coding | image | dev platform |
| Pricing | Free + $20/mo Pro + $40/mo Business | Free + included with Creative Cloud | Pay per second of compute |
| Best for | Developers. Non-developers who want to ship working code. | Anyone in Creative Cloud. Brands that need copyright clarity. | Developers using open-source models (Flux, SDXL, Whisper, etc). |
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| Kai's verdict | S-tier for coding. If you write code of any kind, this pays back the $20 in a day. | S-tier inside Photoshop (Generative Fill). B-tier standalone. | S-tier for open-source model APIs. The default in this space. |
| Link | Open → | Open → | Open → |