Cursor alternatives (2026)

AI code review and testing agents that work in the IDE, the terminal and pull requests to catch issues before merge.

Imbue

AI research company building tools for coding agents, including Sculptor for running parallel agents.

KaneAI

AI testing agent that plans, writes and evolves end-to-end tests from natural language.

Verdent

AI coding agent that plans, codes and verifies tasks in parallel.

Cleric

NewcodingEnterprise

AI SRE agent that investigates production alerts and finds root causes.

Nimbalyst

Visual workspace for working with coding agents like Claude Code on docs, code and plans.

Runcell

AI agent for Jupyter notebooks that writes and runs code cells.

Graphify

Turns a codebase plus its docs, SQL schemas, configs and PDFs into a knowledge graph that coding agents can query.

Claude-Mem

Gives coding agents memory across sessions by capturing what they do, compressing it and feeding the relevant context back in later.

Orca

Agent development environment for running a fleet of parallel coding agents on your own subscriptions and reviewing their work.

Strix

Open-source AI agents that run penetration tests on your app to find and help fix security vulnerabilities.

Goose

Extensible open-source AI agent that installs, runs, edits and tests code on your machine with any LLM and MCP extensions.

Herdr

Runtime for running and managing many coding agents side by side.

Codewhale

Rust agent engine and terminal coding client with model choice, tool approvals and review flows.

Oh My Claudecode

Multi-agent orchestration layer for Claude Code that coordinates teams of specialized agents.

DeepSeek-Reasonix

Coding agent built for complex software engineering tasks on DeepSeek models.

Oh My Pi

Terminal coding agent with IDE features wired in, from Stencil Labs.

PentAGI

Autonomous multi-agent system for running penetration testing tasks.

Context Mode

Context window optimizer for coding agents that sandboxes tool output and persists session memory.

AgentMemory

Persistent memory layer for AI coding agents.

Crush

Charm's terminal coding agent with a polished TUI, multiple models and MCP support.

Qwen Code

Open-source terminal coding agent from the Qwen team.

Vibe Kanban

Kanban board for planning and running tasks with Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents.

Beads

Issue-tracking memory for coding agents so they can keep track of long-running work.

Planning With Files

File-based planning for coding agents, keeping Markdown plans that survive crashes and session resets.

Happy Coder

Mobile and desktop app to run and control Claude Code, Codex and other agents using your own subscriptions.

Paseo

Orchestrate multiple coding agents from desktop and mobile.

jcode

High-performance coding agent harness written in Rust.

Coder

Self-hosted cloud development environments for developers and their coding agents.

DeepCode

Open agentic coding system that turns papers and specs into code with multi-agent orchestration.

Superset

Agentic IDE for orchestrating many coding agents in parallel.

Agent Orchestrator

Runs and supervises teams of coding agents from planning to merge.

HumanLayer

Tools for getting coding agents to solve hard problems in complex codebases.

OpenChamber

Agentic development environment built around the OpenCode agent.

Trail Code

Context layer that makes Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other coding agents faster and cheaper on large codebases.

Ralph for Claude Code

Autonomous development loop for Claude Code that keeps iterating until the task is done.

Hunk

Review-first terminal diff viewer for checking what coding agents changed.

Oh My OpenCode Slim

Lean multi-agent suite for OpenCode that mixes models and delegates tasks automatically.

Plannotator

Visually annotate and review coding-agent plans and diffs, then send feedback back to the agent.

Terax

Lightweight terminal-first AI development environment.

Worktrunk

CLI for managing Git worktrees so several AI agents can work in parallel.

mini-SWE-agent

Tiny 100-line agent that solves GitHub issues or helps on the command line, from the SWE-agent team.

SuperPlane

Open-source platform for orchestrating one-shot engineering work with agents.

Gentle AI

Configures the coding agents you already use with shared rules, skills and settings.

OpenRig

Builds persistent teams of Claude Code, Codex and Pi agents with roles and shared context.

Backlog.md

Markdown task board in your Git repo for coordinating work between people and AI agents.

Mission Control

Self-hosted control plane for dispatching tasks to agents, reviewing runs and tracking spend.

Semble

Fast code search for agents that uses far fewer tokens than grep and file reads.

Potpie

Builds a knowledge graph of your codebase so agents can help across the software lifecycle.

Tokscale

Tracks token usage across AI coding agents from your terminal.

Code-Graph-RAG

Graph-based RAG for monorepos that lets agents query and edit multi-language code.

Entire CLI

CLI that captures AI agent sessions alongside your Git commits.

Integuru

Agent that builds integrations by reverse engineering platforms' internal APIs.

gptme

Terminal agent with local tools that writes code, runs commands, browses the web and uses vision.

Jupyter AI

Official JupyterLab extension that connects AI agents and chat to notebooks.

Command Code

Coding agent built for open models.

abtop

htop-style monitor for Claude Code and Codex sessions and token use.

HolmesGPT

CNCF sandbox SRE agent that investigates alerts and incidents.

Grok CLI

Open-source coding agent for the Grok API.

Maestro

Command center for orchestrating multiple coding agents.

PentestAgent

Agent framework for black-box security testing and bug bounty work.

Ralph Orchestrator

Orchestrator for autonomous agent loops using the Ralph Wiggum technique.

Ruler

Applies one set of rules to all your coding agents.

CodeBoarding

Generates interactive architecture diagrams of codebases.

Nanocoder

Community-built open coding agent for your terminal.

Chaterm

Open-source AI terminal for deploying, troubleshooting and automating cloud infrastructure.

Coddo

Desktop app that puts a visual interface and voice input on top of terminal coding agents.

Munder Difflin

Free, open-source harness that runs Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and other terminal agents together like an office.

BackAnt Kairos

Backant's Kairos, an autonomous developer that runs Claude Code against your repository.

Coldtea

Agents that test every pull request on real devices, watch production and file issues before users hit them.

GitHub Agentic Workflows (gh-aw)

Run AI agents in GitHub Actions workflows; v0.91.10 pre-release (Oct 13) defaults read-only workflows to no network.

Jevgrep

CLI that finds relevant repo files and excerpts from natural-language questions for coding agents; claims ~40% cheaper agent runs.

Claude Code

Anthropic's terminal coding agent that edits code, runs commands and handles git.

OpenAI Codex CLI

OpenAI's open-source coding agent for the terminal; also runs in the cloud.

Devin

Cognition's autonomous software engineer that takes tickets and opens PRs.

OpenHands

Open-source platform for autonomous coding agents.

Aider

Pair-programming agent in your terminal that commits changes to git.

Cline

Autonomous coding agent inside VS Code with step-by-step approvals.

Roo Code

VS Code agent with custom modes (architect, code, debug).

Windsurf

AI IDE with the Cascade agent, now rebranded as Devin Desktop after Cognition acquired Windsurf (windsurf.com redirects there).

opencode

Open-source terminal coding agent that works with many model providers.

Amp

NewcodingUsage-based

Agentic coding tool for the terminal and editor.

Gemini CLI

Google's open-source terminal agent powered by Gemini.

GitHub Copilot