Cursor Alternatives

Cursor is described as 'The AI-first Code Editor. Build software faster in an editor designed for pair-programming with AI' and is a popular ai coding assistant in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Cursor for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Visual Studio Code apps. The best Cursor alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like Cursor are Sublime Text, VSCodium, Zed Editor and Kate.

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Cursor alternatives are mainly AI Coding Assistants, but if you're looking for Code Editors or IDEs you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free, Open Source and EU. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Cursor.
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  1. Mistral Vibe icon
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    Lightning-fast completions, deep code understanding, and agentic software engineering—right where you work.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Python
     
  2. Qoder IDE icon
     9 likes

    Qoder is an AI-powered agentic coding platform and IDE that automates complex software development tasks using autonomous AI agents.

    78 Qoder IDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Eclipse Theia icon
     21 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Electron
     
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  4. 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)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. 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

    Application type

    Platforms

    • IntelliJ IDEA
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Linux
    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  6. CodeGeeX icon
     22 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  7. 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)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
     
  8. 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.

    84 Supermaven alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Neovim
     
  9. Clinde icon
     6 likes

    Experience powerful AI without limits. Use our desktop app for everyday AI assistance, or boost your coding productivity with our JetBrains plugin.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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