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| Tagline | VS Code fork that made AI coding actually work. | Spreadsheets with AI + live integrations baked in. | Commercially safe image gen, deeply integrated with Photoshop. | The one that actually gets text in images right. |
| Category | coding | data | image | image |
| Pricing | Free + $20/mo Pro + $40/mo Business | Free + $19-$89/user/mo | Free + included with Creative Cloud | Free + $8/mo + $20/mo + $60/mo |
| Best for | Developers. Non-developers who want to ship working code. | Ops teams, marketers, anyone building dashboards from multiple sources. | Anyone in Creative Cloud. Brands that need copyright clarity. | Anything with text — posters, ads, album covers, slide decks. |
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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. | A-tier. The most interesting spreadsheet in years. Great for ops dashboards. | S-tier inside Photoshop (Generative Fill). B-tier standalone. | S-tier for text-in-image. Use this for posters, Midjourney for art. |
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