Free Cursor Alternatives

The best free alternative to Cursor is Visual Studio Code. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Cursor and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Cursor are Sublime Text, VSCodium, Zed Editor and Kate.

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  1. Eclipse Theia icon
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    With Theia you can develop one IDE and run it in browsers or native desktop application from a single source. Theia is designed in a modular way to allow extenders and adopters customizing and extending every aspect of it.

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    • Mac
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    • Self-Hosted
    • Electron
     
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  2. Rivet AI icon
     17 likes

    Visual AI programming platform with a graphical interface for creating, editing, and debugging LLM agent workflows, supporting real-time collaboration, YAML-based version control, open-source TypeScript library integration, and scalable deployment in production environments.

    94 Rivet AI alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  3. Amazon CodeWhisperer is a general purpose, machine learning-powered code generator that provides you with code recommendations in real time. As you write code, CodeWhisperer automatically generates suggestions based on your existing code and comments.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • IntelliJ IDEA
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  4. Twinny icon
     9 likes

    The most no-nonsense locally hosted (or API hosted) AI code completion plugin for Visual Studio Code, like GitHub Copilot but 100% free and 100% private.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
     
  5. CodeGeeX icon
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    CodeGeeX is an AI-based coding assistant, which can suggest code in the current or following lines. It is powered by a large-scale multilingual code generation model with 13 billion parameters, pretrained on a large code corpus of more than 20 programming languages.

    74 CodeGeeX alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. Bolt.new icon
     9 likes

    Bolt.new is an in-browser AI web development agent that leverages StackBlitz’s WebContainers to allow for full stack application development. The application presents users with a simple, chat-based environment in which one prompts an agent to make code changes that are updated...

    126 Bolt.new alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Supermaven icon
     8 likes

    Supermaven is a coding assistant that uses AI to help you write code faster. Breeze through code refactoring with Supermaven's fast and accurate suggestions.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Neovim
     
  8. Trag icon
     7 likes

    Trag enhances code review efficiency through AI, allowing specific instructions and pattern linting. Requires GitHub integration, free for open-source uses. Saves substantial engineer time by providing AI-reviewed code ahead of manual inspection.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  9. CodinIT.dev icon
     4 likes

    CodinIT is a free, local, and open-source AI app builder designed to empower users to create powerful custom applications without coding and without vendor lock-in. It runs entirely on your own computer, ensuring full control over your source code and data privacy with over 300+...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
     
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