Windsurf Editor Alternatives

Windsurf Editor is described as 'The first agentic IDE, and then some. The Windsurf Editor is where the work of developers and AI truly flow together, allowing for a coding experience that feels like literal magic' and is a Code Editor in the development category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Windsurf Editor for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Visual Studio Code apps. The best Windsurf Editor alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like Windsurf Editor are VSCodium, Vim, Microsoft Visual Studio and Zed Editor.

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  1. OpenAI 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.

    70 OpenAI Codex alternatives

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    • Paid
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Node.JS
     
    • OpenAI Codex is the most popular SaaS alternative to Windsurf Editor.

    • OpenAI Codex is Paid and ProprietaryWindsurf Editor is Freemium and Proprietary
  2. Jules icon
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    Jules is an asynchronous agent that gets out of your way. It lets you focus on the coding you want to do, meawnwhile picking up all the other random tasks that you rather not do.

    69 Jules alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • GitHub
     
  3. CodeEdit icon
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    CodeEdit is a code editor built by the community, for the community, written entirely and unapologetically for macOS. Features include syntax highlighting, code completion, project find and replace, snippets, terminal, task running, debugging, git integration, code review...

    29 CodeEdit alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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

    49 Qoder IDE alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Cline icon
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    Autonomous coding agent right in your IDE, capable of creating/editing files, executing commands, using the browser, and more with your permission every step of the way.

    78 Cline alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Open Source

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    • Visual Studio Code
     
  6. Athas icon
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    Lightweight, open-source code editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux featuring Vim keybindings, built-in Git support, agentic AI editing with multiple models, syntax highlighting, LSP for intelligent completion, fast performance, and efficient workflows.

    55 Athas alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. Mistral Code 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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    • Online
     
  8. TabNine icon
     19 likes
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    Auto-completion for any programming language, using machine-learning.

    71 TabNine alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. 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.

    22 Eclipse Theia alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Electron
     
  10. 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.

    61 CodeGeeX alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  11. Clinde icon
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    Experience powerful AI without limits. Use our desktop app for everyday AI assistance, or boost your coding productivity with our JetBrains plugin.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
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