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Best Cursor alternatives

10 tools similar to Cursor, ranked by how closely they match what it does among coding & development. All 10 have a free option.

Cursor alternatives at a glance

Tool	Pricing	Free option	API	Open source	Compare
Cursor(this tool)	Freemium · from $20/mo
GitHub Copilot	Freemium				vs Cursor
Windsurf	Freemium · from $20/mo				vs Cursor
Continue	Free				vs Cursor
Cody	Freemium
Cline	Freemium
Claude Code	Freemium
Tabnine	Freemium · from $12/mo
Aider	Free
Codemod	Freemium
Pieces	Freemium

Top 10 alternatives to Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Coding & development

AI pair programmer that autocompletes and generates code inside your editor.

Free ($0/user/mo, 2,000 completions/mo); Pro ($10/user/mo); Pro+ ($39/user/mo); Max ($100/user/mo); Business ($19/user/mo); Enterprise ($39/user/mo)

VS CodeGitHubClaudeOpenAI

OpenAI / Anthropic / Google10M+ users

Windsurf

Coding & development

Agentic AI code editor from Codeium — Cascade agent handles multi-file tasks end to end.

Free ($0): light quota, limited models, unlimited inline edits & Tab completions. Pro ($20/mo): increased quotas, frontier models (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, SpaceXAI), free SWE-2, cloud agents. Max ($200/mo): significantly higher quotas. Teams ($80/mo base + $40/mo per full seat, up to 200 users). Enterprise: custom pricing.

GitHubPyTorchClaude

Free tierDevAPISelf-host

Multiple providers: OpenAI, Anthropic (Claude), Google (Gemini), SpaceXAI, plus leading open source models, and Cognition's own SWE-2Growing

Continue

Coding & development

Open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains with bring-your-own-model flexibility

Freemium model (paid plans available)

FreeDevOSSSelf-host

Cody

Coding & development

AI coding assistant with deep codebase context powered by Sourcegraph Search

Free tier available; Enterprise version available

VS CodeJetBrainsVisual StudioGitHub+1

Free tierDevAPISelf-host

Multiple (latest LLMs)Popular

Cline

Coding & development

The open-source AI coding agent for your IDE, terminal, and SDK

Open source (Apache 2.0) · Enterprise plan available

VS CodeSlackDiscordLinear+1

Free tierEveryoneAPIOSSSelf-host

Bring Your Own (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Ollama, LM Studio, OpenAI-compatible)63k10M+ users

Claude Code

Coding & development

Agentic AI coding assistant by Anthropic that works directly in your terminal

Free tierDevAPI

Tabnine

Coding & development

Privacy-first AI code completion — runs locally or on private cloud, no data retention.

JetBrains IDEsVS CodeVisual StudioGitHub

Free tierDevSelf-host

Aider

Coding & development

AI pair programming in your terminal — code smarter with LLMs

Free · API keys required for LLM providers

GitClaude (Anthropic)DeepSeekOpenAI+1

FreeDevOSSSelf-host

Multi-provider: Anthropic (Claude 3.7 Sonnet), DeepSeek (R1 & Chat V3), OpenAI (o1, o3-mini, GPT-4o), and local models49kPopular

Codemod

Coding & development

Compiler-aware code migration and maintenance platform for enterprise scale

Free open-source MCP & CLI tools · Enterprise plans via contact

ClaudeCodexCursorGitHub+1

Free tierDevAPIOSS

Pieces

Coding & development

Infinite AI memory for developers — automatically captures everything you work on, across every app.

VS CodeChromeClaudeGitHub Copilot+1

Free tierDevAPISelf-host

Multiple (cloud and local providers, bring-your-own-key supported)Growing

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