Tempr review
A broad BYOK toolkit for IDE coding, terminal agents, and OpenAI-compatible API access.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
Tempr is a bring-your-own-key AI coding assistant for developers working in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs, terminals, and API workflows. Its IDE features include Markdown chat with code actions, ghost-text inline completion, semantic code search, autonomous multi-step agents, personas, MCP servers, and multi-agent delegation. The Tempr CLI extends the same agent to terminal and script workflows, while Gateway provides an OpenAI-compatible API. It suits individual developers and teams that want one interface across multiple AI providers and coding environments.
Pricing is split between IDE and CLI plans and separate Gateway plans. Standard costs $15 per month and includes the full model catalog with delayed access to new models, chat, inline completion, agent tools, built-in personas, and the Tempr CLI. Pro costs $20 per month and adds immediate access to new models, custom personas and models, multiple saved sessions, and higher agent-turn limits. Teams costs $35 per seat per month and adds centralized billing, seat management, shared configuration, admin controls, SSO using SAML/OIDC, and organization-managed virtual keys. Gateway Free costs $0 per month; Gateway Pro costs $49 per month with 250,000 requests included, while Gateway Scale costs $249 per month with 2,000,000 requests included. Gateway Enterprise adds SSO with enforced domains, an uptime SLA, priority support, VPC deployment or self-hosting, and volume pricing.
The product’s main strength is breadth: coding assistance, terminal tooling, workspace search, external MCP servers, delegation, and an API gateway sit in one offering. The trade-off is that chat and CLI depend on a provider API key, so model access involves an additional provider relationship outside Tempr. Standard also places new-model access behind a delay, while Gateway is priced and managed separately. Choose Tempr if your workflow spans IDEs, terminals, and API-based applications; consider another tool if you want provider access bundled directly into the coding subscription or need a narrower, simpler assistant.
Tempr pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Combines chat, completion, agents, search, CLI, MCP, and delegation
- Supports Visual Studio, VS Code, and IntelliJ Platform IDEs
- Gateway offers OpenAI-compatible API access with logs and analytics
- Where it doesn't
- Chat and CLI require users to supply a provider API key
- Standard delays access to new models
- Gateway API plans are separate from IDE and CLI plans
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