20 Zed alternatives
Zed: A GPU-accelerated code editor written in Rust, with collaborative editing and coding agents built into the core. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Coding Agent, IDE and Developers, ranked by how much they have in common with Zed.
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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, Desktop App, Developers, IDE
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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, Desktop App, 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: Coding Agent, Desktop App, IDE
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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: Coding Agent, Desktop App, IDE
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Cursor is an AI-powered IDE built to significantly speed up software development.
Also: Coding Agent, 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: Coding Agent, Developers, IDE
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Cursor
Cursor's Git forge for the agentic era — host repos, review pull requests and let coding agents work in the same place.
Also: Coding Agent, Collaboration, Developers
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A browser canvas where Claude Code, Codex, Kimi and other coding agents work the same repository at once without overwriting each other.
Also: Coding Agent, Collaboration, Developers
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Spotify
Spotify's vendor-neutral workspace for running dozens of Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI sessions in parallel with shared context.
Also: Coding Agent, Desktop App, Developers
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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: Coding Agent, Desktop App, Developers
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Intelligence Software, Inc.
A shared channel workspace where people and AI agents run recurring business work together — with goals, approvals and handoffs that survive a pause.
Also: Collaboration, Desktop App
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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
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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: Coding Agent, IDE
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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
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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: 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: Coding Agent, IDE
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Google
Google's agent-first development platform, where you manage a fleet of coding agents across editor, terminal, and browser.
Also: 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: Developers, IDE
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Code integrity tooling — AI review, test generation, and an agentic IDE assistant grounded in your repository.
Also: Developers, IDE
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pungme
An open-source Mac app that gives Claude Code a real browser, a live iOS Simulator and its own git worktree per chat.
Also: Coding Agent, Desktop App