Best AI Coding Assistants · FREE
Best free AI Coding Assistants (2026)
6 ai coding assistants that offer a genuine free plan, ranked by entry price. 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
- Cheapest: Amazon Q Developer at $0/mo.
- Qualifying: Amazon Q Developer, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Replit, Windsurf (now Devin), JetBrains AI Assistant.
- 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. 1 of 6 rows below is marked.
Comparison
| # | AI Coding Assistant | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amazon Q Developer | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | AWS-native development teams | aws.amazon.com |
| 2 | Cursor | $0/mo | Yes | — | Yes | Individual engineers wanting best-in-class autocomplete | cursor.com |
| 3 | GitHub Copilot | $0/mo | Yes | — | Yes | Individual developers on GitHub ecosystem | github.com |
| 4 | Replit STALE · 2026-06-14 | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Non-technical founders and product managers building internal tools | replit.com |
| 5 | Windsurf (now Devin) | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Engineering teams wanting to parallelize repetitive dev work | devin.ai |
| 6 | JetBrains AI Assistant | $10/mo | Yes | — | — | JetBrains IDE power users (Java/Kotlin, Python, Go, .NET, PHP, Ruby, Rust) | jetbrains.com |