GitHub Copilot

Alternatives to GitHub Copilot

Ranked by category and the features they share with GitHub Copilot.

1. 
   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

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2. 
   Windsurf Cognition

   An AI code editor with an agent, Cascade, that plans and carries out multi-file changes.

   Free plan + paid

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3. 
   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

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4. 
   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

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5. 
   Devin Cognition

   An autonomous software engineer that takes tickets, works in its own cloud environment and opens pull requests.

   Paid API

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6. 
   Cline Cline

   An open source coding agent for VS Code that works with any model provider and asks before each step.

   Free Open source

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7. 
   Tabnine Tabnine

   Code completion and chat for companies that need private or on-premises deployment.

   Paid

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8. 
   Aider Aider (community)

   An open source pair programmer in the terminal that edits your git repo and commits as it goes.

   Free Open source

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9. 
   Replit Replit

   A browser IDE whose Agent builds, hosts and deploys full apps from a description.

   Free plan + paid

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10. 
    Lovable Lovable

    Describe a web app and Lovable builds it, with a database, auth and hosting, editable by chat.

    Free plan + paid

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