Discover the AI coding assistants developers are raving about worldwide.
Boost your workflow and code smarter, faster, better.
IDE
Cursor is currently the best AI-native code editor. Built on VS Code, it is fully compatible with the VS Code plugin ecosystem. Cursor's core advantage is its unique Composer mode, which allows AI to understand and modify multiple files simultaneously, truly achieving project-level intelligent editing.
IDE
Windsurf is the first agentic IDE that keeps you in the flow. Built by Codeium on top of VS Code, it introduces "Cascade," an AI agent that deeply understands your codebase and acts independently. Unlike traditional chat assistants, Windsurf shares a single context between the editor and the AI, allowing for seamless collaboration and "Supercomplete" code prediction.
Extension
GitHub Copilot is the world's most widely adopted AI developer tool. Developed by GitHub and OpenAI, it integrates directly into your editor (VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Vim) as an extension. It turns natural language prompts into coding suggestions and offers a chat interface to explain code, fix bugs, and generate tests.
Web Generator
Bolt.new is an AI-powered web development agent running entirely in your browser. Powered by StackBlitz's WebContainers technology, it allows you to prompt for a full-stack application, installs packages, runs the dev server, and gives you a live preview instantly—all without setting up a local environment.
IDE
Trae is a next-generation AI IDE developed by ByteDance. It distinguishes itself with a dual-mode interaction: "Chat" for quick questions and "Builder" for complex, multi-file autonomous coding tasks. Currently, Trae offers free unlimited access to top-tier models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o, making it the most cost-effective AI coding solution on the market.
IDE
Zed is a next-generation code editor written in Rust, engineered for extreme performance and responsiveness. Zed AI is its integrated assistant, powered by Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Unlike Electron-based editors (VS Code, Cursor), Zed uses GPU acceleration to render instantly. Its "Assistant Panel" offers a unique, text-editor-first approach to AI chat, allowing you to edit context and conversation history like code.
Extension
Supermaven is the first AI code completion tool to offer a 1-million-token context window. Created by Jacob Jackson (founder of Tabnine), it uses a proprietary new neural network architecture designed for ultra-low latency. It remembers literally every file in your project, allowing it to suggest code based on definitions and patterns from across your entire codebase instantly.
Web Generator
Lovable is an AI-powered full-stack application builder that evolved from the popular GPT Engineer project. Unlike general-purpose code generators, Lovable focuses on creating beautiful, production-ready web applications using a specific, high-quality stack (React, Tailwind, Supabase). It features a unique visual editing capability, allowing you to click on any UI element and prompt changes specifically for that component.
Extension
Continue is the leading open-source AI code assistant that works inside VS Code and JetBrains IDEs. Unlike proprietary tools, Continue lets you bring your own models (BYOK). You can connect to local LLMs via Ollama, or use API keys for GPT-4, Claude 3.5, and DeepSeek. It gives you full control over your data privacy and the AI stack you use.
Web Generator
Replit is a collaborative, cloud-based IDE that has evolved into an AI-first platform. Its flagship feature, "The Replit Agent," acts as an autonomous software engineer that can plan projects, write code, manage dependencies, and fix errors in real-time. Because Replit runs in the cloud, it offers instant environments for any language and one-click deployment, making it the fastest path from prompt to live URL.
Extension
Augment is an AI coding assistant built specifically for professional teams and large codebases. Founded by ex-Google and Microsoft engineers, it differentiates itself with a proprietary codebase indexing engine that understands intent and context far better than standard RAG solutions. It focuses on speed, correctness, and enterprise-grade security, ensuring your code never leaks.
CLI
Aider is a command-line tool that lets you pair program with LLMs to edit code in your local git repository. Unlike IDE plugins, Aider works directly with your files and git history. It is famous for its "Repository Map" technology which intelligently selects context, allowing it to solve complex multi-file tasks with higher accuracy than almost any other tool on the SWE-bench leaderboard.
IDE
Google Antigravity is a revolutionary IDE designed for the Gemini 3 era. It introduces an "Agent-First" interface with a "Mission Control" view to orchestrate multiple autonomous agents. Antigravity allows developers to delegate end-to-end engineering tasks—planning, coding, browsing, and verifying—to agents powered by Google's most capable models.