The AI-first code editor. Built on VSCode, supercharged with GPT-4 and Claude.
Cursor is the AI code editor that took the developer world by storm in 2024-2025. Built on top of VSCode (so you keep your keybindings, themes, and extensions), it adds native GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini integration that actually understands your entire codebase. Not a chat sidebar — a true pair programmer.
Who it's for: Software engineers, indie hackers, and teams who already live in an IDE. Especially powerful for greenfield projects, refactors, and test generation.
Highlight code, hit Cmd-K, describe the change. The AI rewrites the selection in place — refactors, type changes, docstring additions, all without leaving the file.
Cursor's killer feature. Ask for a feature in plain English, and it edits 5-10 files at once. Add a user auth system? It scaffolds routes, models, middleware, and tests.
Multi-line, context-aware completions that predict the next chunk of code based on what you just wrote. Fast — feels like Copilot on steroids.
Ask '@codebase where do we handle rate limiting?' and Cursor indexes your entire repo to give precise answers with file references.
If you write code for a living and you're not using Cursor (or Windsurf, or Cline) in 2026, you're shipping slower than you need to. The $20/mo pays for itself in the first hour.
The original AI pair programmer. Now with multi-model support and Chat integration.
The Cursor competitor that's catching up fast. Cascade agent is a serious Composer alternative.
AI pair programming in your terminal. Multi-file edits, git-aware, runs offline.
Open-source AI code assistant. Runs in VSCode/JetBrains with any model.