AI coding tools
Coding agents, AI editors and app builders that write and change code for you.
- Claude Code Anthropic
Anthropic’s coding agent: it reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and opens PRs, in the terminal, IDE, desktop and web.
Paid API - GitHub Copilot GitHub (Microsoft)
Code completion, chat and a coding agent across VS Code, JetBrains IDEs and github.com, with a choice of models.
Free plan + paid - Cursor Anysphere
An AI code editor built on VS Code, with tab completion, chat and agents that change many files at once.
Free plan + paid - OpenAI Codex OpenAI
OpenAI’s coding agent, in ChatGPT, a terminal CLI and IDE extensions, that works on tasks in the cloud or locally.
Paid Open source API - Windsurf Cognition
An AI code editor with an agent, Cascade, that plans and carries out multi-file changes.
Free plan + paid - Devin Cognition
An autonomous software engineer that takes tickets, works in its own cloud environment and opens pull requests.
Paid API - Cline Cline
An open source coding agent for VS Code that works with any model provider and asks before each step.
Free Open source - Aider Aider (community)
An open source pair programmer in the terminal that edits your git repo and commits as it goes.
Free Open source - Replit Replit
A browser IDE whose Agent builds, hosts and deploys full apps from a description.
Free plan + paid - Lovable Lovable
Describe a web app and Lovable builds it, with a database, auth and hosting, editable by chat.
Free plan + paid - Bolt.new StackBlitz
Prompt, run, edit and deploy full-stack web apps in the browser.
Free plan + paid - v0 Vercel
Vercel’s app builder that turns prompts and screenshots into React and Next.js apps.
Free plan + paid API - Tabnine Tabnine
Code completion and chat for companies that need private or on-premises deployment.
Paid
At a glance
| Tool | Maker | Pricing | Open source | API | Where |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic | Paid | Terminal, IDE, Desktop, Web | |||
| GitHub (Microsoft) | Free plan + paid | IDE, Terminal, Web | |||
| Anysphere | Free plan + paid | IDE, Desktop, Terminal | |||
| OpenAI | Paid | Terminal, IDE, Web | |||
| Cognition | Free plan + paid | IDE, Desktop | |||
| Cognition | Paid | Web | |||
| Cline | Free | IDE, Terminal | |||
| Aider (community) | Free | Terminal | |||
| Replit | Free plan + paid | Web, Mobile | |||
| Lovable | Free plan + paid | Web | |||
| StackBlitz | Free plan + paid | Web | |||
| Vercel | Free plan + paid | Web | |||
| Tabnine | Paid | IDE, Self-hosted |