The best GitHub Copilot alternatives
9 tools that do a similar job to GitHub Copilot, 3 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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GitHub CopilotGitHub's AI coding assistant for code completion, chat and agent tasks in editors and on GitHub.
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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
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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
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Cursor
AI tool · Freemium
An AI-first code editor (based on VS Code) with codebase-aware chat, multi-file edits and agents.
Best for: AI-assisted multi-file changes; Developers who want AI built into the editor
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Cline
AI tool · Open source
An open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code that plans, edits files and runs commands with your approval.
Best for: Bring-your-own-model agent in VS Code; Transparent step-by-step agent work
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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
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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
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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
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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
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FauxPilot
Open source · MIT · ★ 14.7k
A self-hosted server that aims to stand in for GitHub Copilot, running code models on your own GPU.
Best for: Developers with an NVIDIA GPU who want to keep their code on their own machines; Teams experimenting with self-hosted code completion
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 GitHub Copilot. We don't take payment for placement.