20 Amazon Q Developer alternatives
Amazon Q Developer (formerly CodeWhisperer) is AWS's AI coding assistant; its IDE plugins end support in April 2027 in favour of Kiro. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Coding Agent, CLI and Code Generation, ranked by how much they have in common with Amazon Q Developer.
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Amazon Web Services
AWS's spec-driven agentic IDE, CLI and web workspace: prompts become requirements, design docs and tracked tasks before any code is written.
Also: AWS, Code Generation, Coding Agent
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JetBrains
JetBrains AI Assistant adds project-aware chat, code completion and agents like Junie, Claude Agent and Codex to JetBrains IDEs.
Also: Autocomplete, Code Generation, Coding Agent
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Cursor is an AI-powered IDE built to significantly speed up software development.
Also: Autocomplete, Code Generation, Coding Agent
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Anthropic
Anthropic's agentic coding tool — a terminal-native agent that reads your codebase, edits files, runs tests, and opens PRs.
Also: CLI, Code Generation, Coding Agent
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Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal — 500+ models at provider cost, task-specific modes, parallel agents in isolated git worktrees.
Also: CLI, Code Generation, Coding Agent
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Sourcegraph
Sourcegraph's frontier coding agent for the terminal and editor, built to use the strongest models without limits.
Also: CLI, Code Generation, Coding Agent
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AI pair programming in your terminal, with git-aware edits and a sensible commit for every change.
Also: CLI, Code Generation, Coding Agent
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Continue
Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal; acquired by Cursor in 2026 and no longer maintained.
Also: Autocomplete, CLI
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Sourcegraph
Cody is Sourcegraph's codebase-aware AI coding assistant, now only for Sourcegraph Enterprise customers since Free and Pro ended in 2025.
Also: Autocomplete, Code Generation
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Cognition AI
Windsurf Plugins (formerly Codeium) add AI autocomplete and chat to JetBrains, VS Code, Vim, Visual Studio, Jupyter and Eclipse.
Also: Autocomplete, Code Generation
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Highly personalized AI that fits how you work · Context-aware suggestions based on your code and patterns
Also: Autocomplete, Code Generation
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Cognition AI
Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf) is Cognition's AI IDE for running and reviewing local and cloud coding agents.
Also: Autocomplete, Coding Agent
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Meta
Meta's terminal coding agent for long-horizon work in large repositories, running the Muse Spark 1.2 model with parallel subagents and a replayable event log.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent
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Agentic AI Foundation
Open-source AI agent from the Agentic AI Foundation — a native desktop app, CLI and API that runs tasks locally with 70+ MCP extensions.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent
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Abhishek Iyer
A local, keyboard-driven diff viewer built for the huge changes coding agents produce - and it remembers what you have already seen.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent
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Mario Zechner
Minimal, MIT-licensed terminal coding agent that adapts to your workflow via TypeScript extensions.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent
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Vercel Labs
Vercel Labs' tiny open-source coding agent: a ~6MB Zig binary that cold-starts in microseconds and embeds anywhere.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent
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Publish Studio
A macOS script runner where you and your coding agent drive the same terminal processes — menu bar, CLI and a built-in MCP server over one local socket.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent
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Ad-supported coding agent suite — CLI, parallel desktop workspaces, cloud IDE and a prompt-to-deploy web builder, with no subscription or API key.
Also: CLI, Coding Agent