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…
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 the editor that made AI coding feel native, and it supports every major model provider.
Ideal para: professional developers who want an AI-native IDE
Qué funciona
- Best-in-class Tab completions
- Agents run in the background
- Familiar VS Code base and extensions
Qué conviene saber
- Credit-based usage is hard to predict
- Pricing changes have frustrated users
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