Best Cursor Alternatives (2026)
Looking for something different than Cursor? Here are the top 12 alternatives, ranked by our editors.
Updated June 2026
Top Cursor Alternatives
Cascade-powered AI IDE from Codeium.
Windsurf is Codeium's AI-first IDE. The Cascade agent can complete multi-step tasks autonomously across your codebase.
AI pair programmer inside your editor.
GitHub Copilot integrates AI completions into VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, and more. Backed by Microsoft and OpenAI.
AI pair programming in your terminal.
Aider is an open-source terminal AI pair-programmer that edits code in your local git repository with GPT-5 or Claude. It writes commits, refactors files, and runs tests on demand.
AI pair programming in your terminal.
Aider is an open-source terminal AI pair-programmer that edits code in your local git repository with GPT-5 or Claude. It writes commits, refactors files, and runs tests on demand.
Open-source autonomous coding agent in VS Code.
Cline is an open-source VS Code extension that gives you a fully autonomous AI coding agent — reads files, runs commands, and ships features end-to-end.
Open-source autonomous coding agent in VS Code.
Cline is an open-source VS Code extension that gives you a fully autonomous AI coding agent — reads files, runs commands, and ships features end-to-end.
AI coding assistant with full codebase context.
Cody by Sourcegraph reads your entire codebase to answer questions, write code, and refactor with deep context awareness.
AI coding assistant with full codebase context.
Cody by Sourcegraph reads your entire codebase to answer questions, write code, and refactor with deep context awareness.
The first autonomous AI software engineer.
Devin by Cognition is an autonomous AI engineer that plans, codes, debugs, and deploys tasks with minimal supervision.
The first autonomous AI software engineer.
Devin by Cognition is an autonomous AI engineer that plans, codes, debugs, and deploys tasks with minimal supervision.
Build full-stack apps by chatting with AI.
Lovable lets non-developers build full-stack apps just by describing them. Connects to Supabase, GitHub, and Vercel.
Generate React components from a prompt.
v0 by Vercel generates production-ready React + Tailwind + shadcn UI components from a prompt or screenshot.