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20 Z.ai alternatives

Z.ai: The assistant for Zhipu's GLM models, with a strong bent toward coding, long-horizon agent tasks, and artifact building. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Coding Agent, Code Generation and Chatbot, ranked by how much they have in common with Z.ai.

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  1. Anthropic

    Claude is a family of large language models developed by Anthropic.

    Also: Chatbot, Code Generation

  2. Moonshot AI

    Moonshot AI's assistant, known for very long context windows and strong agentic coding and research workflows.

    Also: Chatbot, Coding Agent

  3. Mistral AI

    Mistral's unified AI agent — Work mode for long-horizon research, analysis and drafting, Code mode for sandboxed coding with GitHub pull requests.

    Also: Chatbot, Coding Agent

  4. Anthropic

    Anthropic's agentic coding tool — a terminal-native agent that reads your codebase, edits files, runs tests, and opens PRs.

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  5. An open-source coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains that plans before it edits and asks before it acts.

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  6. 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: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  7. Cognition AI

    An autonomous AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, and ships code in its own cloud development environment.

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  8. Browser-based coding platform whose AI Agent builds, edits, and deploys full-stack apps from natural-language prompts.

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  9. AI design engineer that generates distinctive UI designs and production code inside your own repo, Figma and design system.

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  10. AWS

    Amazon Q Developer (formerly CodeWhisperer) is AWS's AI coding assistant; its IDE plugins end support in April 2027 in favour of Kiro.

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  11. JetBrains

    JetBrains AI Assistant adds project-aware chat, code completion and agents like Junie, Claude Agent and Codex to JetBrains IDEs.

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  12. 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: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  13. Cursor is an AI-powered IDE built to significantly speed up software development.

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  14. A coding agent tuned for latency: routes easy work to fast models, pulls only the code it needs, and fans out tool calls in parallel.

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  15. Sourcegraph

    Sourcegraph's frontier coding agent for the terminal and editor, built to use the strongest models without limits.

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  16. AI pair programming in your terminal, with git-aware edits and a sensible commit for every change.

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  17. A coding agent built for very large codebases, with a context engine that indexes millions of lines.

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  18. ByteDance

    An AI-native IDE with a builder mode that takes a project from prompt to running application.

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  19. Google

    Google's asynchronous coding agent: hand it a GitHub issue, walk away, and come back to a reviewed pull request.

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent

  20. Julian Storer

    Open-source GUI coding agent whose sessions are branching, resumable documents instead of a linear chat transcript.

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent