Free Cursor AlternativesAI Coding Assistants & Code Editors like Cursor

The best free alternative to Cursor is Visual Studio Code. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 100 alternatives to Cursor and loads of them is free so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free alternatives to Cursor are VSCodium, Zed Editor, opencode and Google Antigravity.

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  1. Visual Studio Code icon
     1479 likes

    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.

    234 Visual Studio Code alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Snapcraft
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  2. VSCodium icon
     448 likes

    This repository contains a build file to generate FLOSS release binaries of Microsoft's Visual Studio Code - Open Source ("Code - OSS") project, the open source core of the proprietary Visual Studio Code.

    221 VSCodium alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Electron
    • Snapcraft
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
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  3. Zed Editor icon
     150 likes

    Blazing fast code editor offering real-time multi-user collaboration, language-aware syntax highlighting, integrated terminal, multi-buffers for tab-free editing, built-in Vim mode, searchable outline, AI coding assistance, advanced keyboard commands, and cross-platform support.

    118 Zed Editor alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
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  4. opencode icon
     55 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.

    112 opencode alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  5. 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...

    82 Google Antigravity alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Xcode
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
    • Zed
    • JetBrains IDE
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  6. Void icon
     36 likes

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

    97 Void alternatives

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  7. 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.

    116 Devin Desktop alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  8. GitHub Copilot icon
     39 likes

    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...

    154 GitHub Copilot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Neovim
    • Microsoft Visual Studio
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  9. Gram icon
     12 likes

    Gram is a powerful and modern source code editor. It features solid performance and is highly configurable, yet comes with batteries included out of the box. Gram supports many popular programming languages and file formats, and can use Zed extensions to support additional...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Gentoo
    • Homebrew
    • Windows
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  10. 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.

    96 Firebase Studio alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
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  11. Athas icon
     20 likes

    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.

    78 Athas alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  12. Emdash icon
     15 likes

    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).

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    • Linux
    • Homebrew
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