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. 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.

    78 Athas alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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  2. Emdash icon
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    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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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Homebrew
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  3. Trae icon
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    Trae is an adaptive AI IDE that transforms how you work, collaborating with you to run faster.

    55 Trae alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
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  4. Kiro icon
     15 likes

    Kiro is an AI-powered IDE developed by Amazon Web Services to help developers build and ship production-ready software from prompt to deployment. Based on VS Code, it combines intuitive "vibe coding" with structured...

    65 Kiro alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
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  5.  8 likes

    Pi aka Pi.dev is a minimal terminal coding harness. Adapt pi to your workflows, not the other way around, without having to fork and modify pi internals.

    65 Pi Agent alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Typescript
    • Termux
    • npm
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  6. TabbyML icon
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    Tabby is an open-source, self-hosted AI coding assistant. With Tabby, every team can set up its own LLM-powered code completion server with ease.

    99 TabbyML alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Visual Studio Code
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  7. Terminal-native open-source AI coding assistant for Mac, Windows, Linux, and BSD, featuring cross-session memory, reading and writing code, Git management, command execution, built-in MiMo Auto for zero configuration start, and integration with mainstream LLM provider APIs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
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    • Linux
    • BSD
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  8. Jules icon
     10 likes

    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.

    96 Jules alternatives

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Online
    • GitHub
    • US flagUnited States
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  9. v0 by Vercel icon
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    AI-powered user interface system generates copy-paste-ready React code using simple text prompts. Enhances design productivity with choices or customizable fine-tuning for refined outputs powered by shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS. Flexible to adapt to specific project needs straightforwardly.

    91 v0 by Vercel alternatives

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    • Freemium
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    • Online
    • iPhone
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  10. Zasper icon
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    A powerful IDE for data science, Zasper excels with massive concurrency support, enabling numerous simultaneous connections, minimal memory usage, and speedy performance. Suited for REPL-style data apps like Jupyter notebooks, fully supported on Mac with limited Linux support.

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