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20 GitHub Copilot alternatives

GitHub Copilot: Everything you need, right where you code. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Developers, Code Generation and Code Review, ranked by how much they have in common with GitHub Copilot.

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  1. 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, VS Code

  2. Stacked pull requests plus AI review — a workflow built around small, fast-moving changes.

    Also: Code Review, Developers, GitHub

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

    Also: Code Generation, Developers, VS Code

  4. 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

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

    Also: Autocomplete, Code Generation, Developers

  6. Highly personalized AI that fits how you work · Context-aware suggestions based on your code and patterns

    Also: Autocomplete, Code Generation, Developers

  7. Continue

    Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal; acquired by Cursor in 2026 and no longer maintained.

    Also: Autocomplete, VS Code

  8. AI code review that builds and runs your app on every pull request, then attaches a failing test, video and repro steps to each bug it finds.

    Also: Code Review, GitHub

  9. Google

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

    Also: Code Generation, GitHub

  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: Autocomplete, Code Generation

  11. 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

  12. Cursor

    Cursor's Git forge for the agentic era — host repos, review pull requests and let coding agents work in the same place.

    Also: Code Review, Developers

  13. Prelint, Inc.

    Reviews every pull request against your product specs, catching business-logic, compliance and scope drift that code review alone misses.

    Also: Code Review, Developers

  14. Cursor

    Cursor's automated PR reviewer, tuned to find genuine logic bugs with a low false-positive rate.

    Also: Code Review, Developers

  15. Code integrity tooling — AI review, test generation, and an agentic IDE assistant grounded in your repository.

    Also: Code Review, Developers

  16. Code review that reads your entire codebase, so it catches the bugs a diff-only reviewer cannot see.

    Also: Code Review, Developers

  17. AI pull request review that leaves line-by-line comments, suggests fixes, and learns your team's preferences.

    Also: Code Review, Developers

  18. Anthropic

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

    Also: Code Generation, Developers

  19. Google

    Google's browser workbench for prototyping with Gemini models, then shipping the same prompt as production API code.

    Also: Code Generation, Developers

  20. Cognition AI

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

    Also: Code Generation, Developers