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

Create, share, and use custom AI code assistants with our open-source IDE extensions and hub of models, rules, prompts, docs, and other building blocks

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

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.

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

Your local AI agent, automating engineering tasks seamlessly.

AI coding agent, built for the terminal.

Type less, code more: Cody is an AI code assistant that uses advanced search and codebase context to help you write and fix code.

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.