aicoolies

aicoolies is an open directory and knowledge graph of AI and developer tools. It catalogs coding assistants, AI-native IDEs, terminal and CLI agents, design-to-code tools, DevOps platforms, databases and more, and currently lists 1,323 developer tools. It is built for developers and engineering teams who need to pick a tool for a specific job and want to see the evidence behind a recommendation.

Reviews can carry four 0–100 scores (overall, speed, privacy and developer experience) plus an explicit evidence state: Verified, Partial, Not yet evidenced, or Legacy. Verified reviews require a documented test context and cited sources, and source-check, test and verification dates are shown separately. The site has 416 published reviews and a leaderboard ordered by score.

Publication-eligible tools have a pricing page with recorded plans and free-tier limits, preferring source-checked structured plans and falling back to an editorial summary where none exist. The Insights section keeps a log of recorded price changes, showing which plan changed, from what and to what.

There are 642 head-to-head comparisons with trade-offs and verdicts, and editor-selected alternatives that explain the direction and trade-offs of each switch. Discontinued tools move to a Graveyard with dates and replacements.

For builders and agents, aicoolies publishes a typed public API described at aicoolies.com/openapi.json, versioned under /api/v1, plus an MCP server, an npm CLI and CC-BY 4.0 JSON datasets. Public reads need no signup or API key. Browsing the site is free, and sponsored placements are labeled and never affect scores or rankings.