Kiro AlternativesAI Coding Assistants & IDEs like Kiro

Apps similar to Kiro include Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other options are Google Antigravity, Cursor, Devin Desktop and Mellum. There's no shortage of AI Coding Assistants like Kiro, with more than 50 alternatives for Mac, Windows, Linux, the web and self-hosting.

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  1. Visual Studio Code icon
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    Free and extensible code editor with built-in Git support, smart IntelliSense, integrated debugger, 30,000+ extensions, works offline, supports markdown and syntax highlighting for numerous languages.

    241 Visual Studio Code alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Snapcraft
    • Chocolatey
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  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...

    87 Google Antigravity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Xcode
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
    • Zed
    • JetBrains IDE
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  3. Cursor icon
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    The AI-first Code Editor. Build software faster in an editor designed for pair-programming with AI.

    177 Cursor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  4. Devin Desktop icon
     38 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.

    120 Devin Desktop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. Mellum icon
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    Mellum-4b-base is JetBrains' first open-source large language model (LLM) optimized for code-related tasks.

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    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Python
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  6. Codex icon
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    Automates code writing, editing, and answering codebase questions using secure cloud sandboxes and local terminal agents, enables parallel task execution, handles pull requests, integrates with repositories, and supports ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, and Team users.

    135 Codex alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Cursor
    • JetBrains IDE
    • Windsurf
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Node.JS
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
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  7. GitHub Copilot icon
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    GitHub Copilot leverages the power of OpenAI Codex to provide real-time suggestions for code and complete functions, all within your editor. With its training on vast amounts of code, GitHub Copilot translates natural language prompts into coding suggestions across multiple...

    161 GitHub Copilot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Neovim
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
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  8. Emdash icon
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    Emdash is a provider-agnostic desktop app that lets you run multiple coding agents in parallel, each isolated in its own git worktree, either locally or over SSH on a remote machine. We call it an Agentic Development Environment (ADE).

    78 Emdash alternatives

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
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  9. Firebase Studio icon
     23 likes

    A cloud-based, agentic development environment designed to accelerate how you build, test, deploy and run production-quality AI applications, all in one place.

    98 Firebase Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
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  10. Trae icon
     16 likes

    Trae is an adaptive AI IDE that transforms how you work, collaborating with you to run faster.

    57 Trae alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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  11. Terminal-native open-source AI coding assistant for Mac, Windows, Linux, and BSD, featuring cross-session memory, reading and writing code, Git management, command execution, built-in MiMo Auto for zero configuration start, and integration with mainstream LLM provider APIs.

    57 Xiaomi MiMo Code alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  12. Lightning-fast completions, deep code understanding, and agentic software engineering—right where you work.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Python
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