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The best Cursor alternatives

8 tools that do a similar job to Cursor, 2 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.

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Cursor

An AI-first code editor (based on VS Code) with codebase-aware chat, multi-file edits and agents.

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    Kiro

    AI tool · Freemium

    An AWS-backed agentic IDE that works from specs, turning requirements into designs, tasks and code.

    Best for: Spec-driven development; Teams wanting more structure than vibe coding

    Full review Cursor vs Kiro
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    Zed

    AI tool · Open source

    A fast, open-source code editor written in Rust with built-in AI editing, agents and multiplayer.

    Best for: Developers who value speed; Collaborative editing

    Full review Cursor vs Zed
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    Claude Code

    AI tool · Paid

    Anthropic's agentic coding tool that works in your terminal, IDE and the web: it reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and supports skills.

    Best for: Agentic coding tasks across a repository; Terminal-centric developers

    Full review Cursor vs Claude Code
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    Gemini CLI

    AI tool · Open source

    Google's open-source terminal agent that uses Gemini models to read code, edit files and run commands.

    Best for: Free terminal coding agent; Large-context codebase questions

    Full review Cursor vs Gemini CLI
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    GitHub Copilot

    AI tool · Freemium

    GitHub's AI coding assistant for code completion, chat and agent tasks in editors and on GitHub.

    Best for: Inline code completion; Teams on GitHub

    Full review Cursor vs GitHub Copilot
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    OpenAI Codex

    AI tool · Paid

    OpenAI's coding agent that works in the cloud, a CLI and IDE extensions to write features, fix bugs and open pull requests.

    Best for: Delegating tasks to a cloud agent; ChatGPT subscribers who code

    Full review
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    Amp

    AI tool · Freemium

    An agentic coding tool from Sourcegraph for the terminal and editors, built to use frontier models without token limits.

    Best for: Heavy agentic coding; Teams sharing agent threads

    Full review
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    Augment Code

    AI tool · Paid

    An AI coding assistant and agent with a context engine designed for large, complex codebases.

    Best for: Large monorepos; Enterprise teams

    Full review Cursor vs Augment Code

How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Cursor. We don't take payment for placement.