Alternatives to Cursor

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Alternatives

GitHub Copilot: Completions and a cloud agent inside GitHub.
Windsurf: Cognition IDE if you want that stack.
Claude Code: Terminal-first agent if you do not want another IDE.

GitHub Copilot

GitHub's AI coding assistant for IDE, CLI, mobile, and cloud agents. Completions, chat, PR drafts, and paid plans from Free to Enterprise.

#Git

1567DR: 96AS: 95

Windsurf

Development Tools

Cognition's local AI IDE (Windsurf 2.0 / Devin Desktop). Plan on your machine, one-click handoff to Devin in the cloud, review the PR in the same app.

#Coding Agent

—DR: —AS: —

Claude Code

Development Tools

Anthropic's agentic coding tool for terminal, IDE, desktop, and browser. Reads the repo, edits files, runs commands, and connects MCP, skills, and hooks.

#Claude

15900000DR: 95AS: 94