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20 JetBrains AI Assistant alternatives

JetBrains AI Assistant adds project-aware chat, code completion and agents like Junie, Claude Agent and Codex to JetBrains IDEs. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Coding Agent, IDE and Code Generation, ranked by how much they have in common with JetBrains AI Assistant.

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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, IDE, JetBrains

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

    Also: Autocomplete, Code Generation, Coding Agent, IDE

  3. Continue

    Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal; acquired by Cursor in 2026 and no longer maintained.

    Also: Autocomplete, JetBrains, Local Models

  4. JetBrains s.r.o.

    JetBrains' agent platform: run Claude Agent, Codex, Junie or Copilot in the cloud, then review every diff inside your IDE.

    Also: Coding Agent, IDE, JetBrains

  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, JetBrains

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. ByteDance

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

    Also: Code Generation, Coding Agent, IDE

  11. System-wide AI autocomplete for macOS that finishes your sentences in any app — fully on-device, no account, no cloud.

    Also: Autocomplete, Local Models

  12. 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

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

    Also: Autocomplete, Code Generation

  14. Zed Industries

    A GPU-accelerated code editor written in Rust, with collaborative editing and coding agents built into the core.

    Also: Coding Agent, IDE

  15. Agentic desktop IDE for designers and programmers — edit a running app visually, drive an AI agent inside the repo, and manage Git without leaving the editor.

    Also: Coding Agent, IDE

  16. Agentic IDE that runs coding agents, self-healing QA tests and production monitoring in one workspace so fixes reach a PR automatically.

    Also: Coding Agent, IDE

  17. 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: Coding Agent, IDE

  18. 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, IDE

  19. Google

    Google's agent-first development platform, where you manage a fleet of coding agents across editor, terminal, and browser.

    Also: Coding Agent, IDE