Cursor IDE alternatives - free, open source and self-hostable

Zed is a next-generation code editor designed for high-performance collaboration with humans and AI.

Autonomous coding agent right in your IDE, capable of creating/editing files, executing commands, using the browser, and more with your permission every step of the way.

aider is AI pair programming in your terminal

Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

Void is an open source Cursor alternative. Write code with the best AI tools, use any model, and retain full control over your data.

Roo Code (prev. Roo Cline) gives you a whole dev team of AI agents in your code editor.

Claude Code is an agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster by executing routine tasks, explaining complex code, and handling git workflows - all through natural language commands.

The most no-nonsense, locally or API-hosted AI code completion plugin for Visual Studio Code - like GitHub Copilot but completely free and 100% private.

Machtiani (mct) is an experimental terminal based, locally ran code chat service. It's designed to work with real projects. Thousands of commits. Thousands of files. For most cases, you’ll get faster, higher quality answers at a fraction of the cost than token-guzzling alternatives.