Cursor alternatives
Cursor turns ideas into code for teams. These 5 tools do the same job or overlap with it (see all AI coding agents).
Compared at a glance
| Tool | Pricing | Platforms | Standout |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cursor | Paid plans: see official pricing | Desktop | Turns ideas into code for teams |
| Claude Code | Paid plans: see official pricing | Web app, Desktop, Mobile, Plugin or MCP | Edits files and runs commands |
| GitHub Copilot | Free plan · Paid from $10/user/mo | Desktop, Mobile, Plugin or MCP | Free plan includes 2,000 completions per month |
| Amazon Q Developer | Free plan · Paid from $19/user/mo | Plugin or MCP, Mobile | Free Tier includes 50 agentic requests per month |
| OpenHands | Free plan · Paid plans: see official pricing | Web app, API | Web GUI, Terminal UI and CLI interfaces |
| Devin | Free plan · Paid plans: see official pricing | Desktop, API | Builds and delivers pull requests |
The alternatives
Claude Code: Anthropic's agentic coding tool that edits files, runs commands, and turns issues into pull requests, for developers.
GitHub Copilot offers a cloud agent that plans and executes assigned tasks autonomously in the background, and works in the editor, on the command line and on GitHub.
Choose GitHub Copilot if you are an individual developer, freelancer, student, educator or open source maintainer, or you work at an organization that wants Copilot
Amazon Q Developer covers part of Cursor's job, with agentic coding that reads, writes files and runs shell commands, plus code suggestions and AWS guidance.
Choose Amazon Q Developer if you work on AWS or need Java and .NET application transformation
OpenHands is an open source agent platform that plans, writes and applies code changes across codebases, with web, terminal and CLI interfaces.
Choose OpenHands if you are on a software engineering team and want a web-based GUI or terminal UI for autonomous coding agents
Devin is an AI coding agent from Cognition that builds, tests and delivers pull requests, with Free, Pro at USD 20/month and Max at USD 200/month plans.
