Free GitHub Copilot AlternativesTop AI Coding Assistants and other similar apps like GitHub Copilot

The best free alternative to GitHub Copilot is Void, which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to GitHub Copilot and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to GitHub Copilot are Google Antigravity, Gemini CLI, opencode and Windsurf Editor.

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  1. Void icon
     35 likes

    The open source AI code editor. Write code with the best AI tools, use any model, and retain full control over your data.

    80 Void alternatives

    Cost / License

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  2. Google Antigravity is an agentic IDE and coding environment designed to support real world software projects through autonomous development workflows. It provides an agent first workspace where developers set direction while AI agents carry out tasks such as coding, debugging...

    39 Google Antigravity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Gemini CLI icon
     29 likes

    Open-source terminal AI connects to development tools, understands and edits code, generates, explains, and refactors using natural language, automates complex workflows, executes shell commands, grounds interactions with search, and supports extensibility via protocols and prompts.

    49 Gemini CLI alternatives

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    • Mac
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  4. opencode icon
     24 likes

    Terminal-based AI coding assistant featuring a themed native UI, automatic LSP integration, multi-agent sessions, 75+ supported LLMs, local and cloud model options, shareable debugging links, open source licensing, and session sharing for collaborative coding workflows.

    68 opencode alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Windsurf Editor icon
     34 likes

    Windsurf Editor is an IDE merging AI and developers for lockstep collaboration with Cascade capabilities, boosting speed and contextual coding through copilot and agent-like systems across Mac, Windows, and Linux.

    71 Windsurf Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. Mellum icon
     21 likes

    Mellum-4b-base is JetBrains' first open-source large language model (LLM) optimized for code-related tasks.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
     
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    Mellum vs GitHub Copilot Comments
    Guest
    Negative
    0

    Mellum is a language model, Copilot is a CLI and AI service

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • Mellum is Free and Open SourceGitHub Copilot is Freemium and Proprietary
  7. Kiro icon
     12 likes

    Kiro is an AI-powered IDE developed by Amazon Web Services to help developers build and ship production-ready software from prompt to deployment. Based on VS Code, it combines intuitive "vibe coding" with structured...

    42 Kiro alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. TabbyML icon
     20 likes

    Tabby is an open-source, self-hosted AI coding assistant. With Tabby, every team can set up its own LLM-powered code completion server with ease.

    79 TabbyML alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Visual Studio Code
     
  9. 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.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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    CodeGeeX vs GitHub Copilot Comments
    jues117
    Positive
    3

    Works like copilot, and it's free now. Nice to see a new extension that can compete with copilot.

    • CodeGeeX is Free Personal and Open SourceGitHub Copilot is Freemium and Proprietary
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