Alternatives to Zed

Amazon CodeWhisperer is now Amazon Q Developer — an AI coding assistant with AWS expertise, built into your IDE and CLI

Context7 feeds version-pinned library docs into Claude, Cursor, and Codex agents so they stop inventing APIs.

Devin Desktop is an agent-native IDE for dispatching and reviewing fleets of local and cloud coding agents.

Kiro turns prompts into validated specs, then ships them with parallel AI coding agents

MarsCode is a browser-based cloud IDE where a built-in AI assistant handles code completion, generation, and debugging.

Sourcegraph Cody: an AI coding assistant that grounds chat, completions, and agents in context from your entire multi-repo codebase.

Warp Factories runs fleets of cloud coding agents across your SDLC, defined in code as factory.yaml.

Windsurf Editor (now Devin Desktop) runs fleets of local and cloud coding agents from one Sessions Board.

Open-source AI pair programming in your terminal, Git-native, with whole-codebase awareness.

Z.ai is a free browser AI assistant and code generator built on the open-weights GLM model family.

Ponytail is an MIT-licensed ruleset that makes AI coding agents write 53% less code without breaking correctness.

WeSight is an open-source desktop workspace that runs Claude Code, Codex and other CLI coding agents side by side.

OpenSpec is an open-source spec framework that keeps AI coding agents building the right thing, with verify and archive built into the loop.

PearAI is a desktop AI code editor with a router that picks the top-scoring coding model for you.

Bito Governor is an AI model router with a code context engine that cuts coding-agent spend by 40-70%.

Poolside builds open-weight agentic coding models — Laguna XS 2.1 (33B) and Laguna S 2.1 (118B) — for code that stays inside your security

Roo Code is a pre-launch multi-agent AI coding assistant for VS Code, currently collecting email signups on a landing page only

Cosine Genie applies codegen to niche and legacy languages like COBOL, Fortran, Verilog and SQL, with air-gapped sovereign deployment.

Open-source dev platform that combines no-code, full-code, and AI with reusable full-stack MicroApps.

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding agent that completes code, reviews pull requests, and runs agent tasks from issue to merge.

Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains — free to fork since Cursor acquired Continue in January 2026.

Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf): run fleets of local and cloud coding agents from one Sessions board.

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding assistant for multi-file repo work from the terminal, IDE, browser, or cloud.

JetBrains Air is one system for building software with agents across JetBrains IDEs, the browser, CLI and mobile

Finden is an AI-native services firm that co-creates and co-distributes enterprise AI products alongside your team.

ReadMe turns your OpenAPI spec into interactive API docs with AI linting, Git-synced review branches, and an MCP server AI agents can query.

Research lab building frontier code models with ultra-long context to automate software engineering and AI research.

Deterministic recipe engine that makes estate-wide code changes across thousands of repositories.

Open-source autonomous AI coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains that plans, executes, and deploys tasks with step-by-step reasoning.

GitLab Duo adds policy-governed AI agents and flows across the DevSecOps lifecycle inside GitLab