Cursor Alternatives

Cursor is described as 'The AI-first Code Editor. Build software faster in an editor designed for pair-programming with AI' and is a popular ai coding assistant in the development category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Cursor for a variety of platforms, including Mac, Windows, Linux, Web-based and Visual Studio Code apps. The best Cursor alternative is Visual Studio Code, which is free. Other great apps like Cursor are VSCodium, Zed Editor, opencode and Claude Code.

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Cursor alternatives are mainly AI Coding Assistants, but if you're looking for Code Editors or IDEs you can filter on that. Other popular filters include Free, Open Source and EU. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Cursor.
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  1. LoopTroop icon
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    LoopTroop is an open-source, local GUI application that orchestrates AI coding agents to complete multi-file tickets. Unlike chat assistants or simple CLI tools, it is built to manage complex, long-running tasks across multiple repositories without filling the model's...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Git
    • Node.JS
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  2. Konxios icon
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    Konxios is a Mac desktop app that sits on top of Ollama/LMStudio and turns local models into a full AI assistant with an actual workspace.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • US flagUnited States
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  3. Stubs icon
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    Stubs takes your coding tasks, looks up the context within your repo, and produces a diff that you can approve. It's the quickest way to do tasks on an existing repo with AI. It can handle multi-file edits and large files.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
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  4. Kimi Code icon
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    A coding-focused perk of the Kimi membership, engineered to drop into any dev workflow, answer faster and more reliably, and get programming tasks done in record time.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Cursor
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  5. OpenBlock icon
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    OB-1 is a terminal-based coding agent — like Claude Code, but with multi-model access and self-optimizing workflows. You bring your own API keys (or use ours), pick the best model for each task, and let OB-1 handle the rest.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Mac
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  6. Ami icon
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    Ami is a native desktop app that lets you run coding agents locally, chat with your codebase in plain English, and see real-time edits tracked for confident commits.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • US flagUnited States
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  7. Verdent icon
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    Agentic AI coding suite with multiple parallel agents for planning, coding, verifying, and orchestrating complex software tasks.

    59 Verdent alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • JetBrains IDE
    • Visual Studio Code
    • Windows
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  8. LynxPrompt icon
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    Self-hosted & federated platform for AI IDE/Tools Rules and Commands via WebUI & CLI - Generate, browse, store, share AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and more.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Docker
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  9. nao icon
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    An AI-powered IDE for data teams that connects directly to your data warehouse to write SQL, Python, and dbt workflows with full schema context.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
    • US flagUnited States
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  10. Modo IDE icon
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    The open-source AI IDE that plans before it codes.

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    Platforms

    • Typescript
    • Windows
    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
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  11. Dropstone icon
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    Dropstone AI is a self-learning, AI-powered software development platform that automates aspects of the software engineering lifecycle, aiming to provide unlimited context memory for large codebases and to improve over time through a generational recursive self-improvement model.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Mac
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  12. Factory icon
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    A software development agents that work everywhere you do. From IDE to CI/CD - delegate complete tasks like refactors, incident response, and migrations to Droids.

    57 Factory alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Online
    • Linux
    • US flagUnited States
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