20 Cursor alternatives
Cursor is an AI-powered IDE built to significantly speed up software development. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Code Generation, Coding Agent and Developers, ranked by how much they have in common with Cursor.
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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, IDE
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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, Developers, IDE
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ByteDance
An AI-native IDE with a builder mode that takes a project from prompt to running application.
Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent, Developers, IDE
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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, IDE
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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: Autocomplete, 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: Code Generation, Coding Agent, IDE
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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: Code Generation, Coding Agent, IDE
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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, Developers
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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, Developers
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Zed Industries
A GPU-accelerated code editor written in Rust, with collaborative editing and coding agents built into the core.
Also: Coding Agent, Developers, IDE
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Alibaba Group
Alibaba's agentic coding platform — a desktop IDE where a lead agent dispatches specialist sub-agents, backed by an auto-generated wiki of your repository.
Also: Coding Agent, Developers, IDE
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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: Code Generation, Coding Agent, Developers
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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, Developers
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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, Developers
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Browser-based coding platform whose AI Agent builds, edits, and deploys full-stack apps from natural-language prompts.
Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent, Developers
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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, Developers
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Sourcegraph
Sourcegraph's frontier coding agent for the terminal and editor, built to use the strongest models without limits.
Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent, Developers
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AI pair programming in your terminal, with git-aware edits and a sensible commit for every change.
Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent, Developers
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A coding agent built for very large codebases, with a context engine that indexes millions of lines.
Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent, Developers