Cursor
The AI-first code editor most startups switched to
Cursor is a VS Code fork rebuilt around AI: predictive Tab edits, codebase-aware chat and background agents that take a task and return a diff. It is…
GitHub Copilot
The most widely used AI pair programmer, inside your editor
Copilot lives in VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim and GitHub itself, offering completions, chat and an agent mode that opens pull requests. The free tier is real, and Pro is cheap enough that most developers just pay it.
Am besten für: developers in VS Code or GitHub
Was funktioniert
- Works in every major editor
- Tight GitHub PR and issue integration
- Choice of underlying models
Was du wissen solltest
- Premium request caps on Pro
- Agent mode lags Claude Code and Cursor on hard tasks
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Windsurf
AI IDE with the Cascade agent, now part of Cognition
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