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Best Cursor alternatives (2026)
7 alternatives to Cursor in ai coding assistants, ranked by entry price. Cursor starts at $0/mo. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Free alternatives: Amazon Q Developer, GitHub Copilot, Replit, Windsurf (now Devin), JetBrains AI Assistant.
- Closest by price: Amazon Q Developer ($0/mo), GitHub Copilot ($0/mo), Replit ($0/mo).
Cursor alternatives compared
| # | Alternative | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amazon Q Developer | $0/mo | Yes | — | AWS-native development teams | aws.amazon.com |
| 2 | GitHub Copilot | $0/mo | Yes | — | Individual developers on GitHub ecosystem | github.com |
| 3 | Replit STALE · 2026-06-14 | $0/mo | Yes | — | Non-technical founders and product managers building internal tools | replit.com |
| 4 | Windsurf (now Devin) | $0/mo | Yes | — | Engineering teams wanting to parallelize repetitive dev work | devin.ai |
| 5 | JetBrains AI Assistant | $10/mo | Yes | — | JetBrains IDE power users (Java/Kotlin, Python, Go, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Rust) | jetbrains.com |
| 6 | Tabnine | $39/mo | No | — | Regulated industries requiring air-gapped or on-prem deployment | tabnine.com |
| 7 | Sourcegraph Cody STALE · 2026-06-14 | not priced monthly | No | — | Large enterprises with multiple repositories needing cross-codebase AI context | sourcegraph.com |
Data current through 2026-09-05. STALE marks a row with at least one plan we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days. 2 of 7 rows above are marked. Compare any two directly on the AI Coding Assistants index.