60 other coding & development tools you can use instead of Cursor, with their free plans and starting prices side by side.
Tools with prices verified on the vendor's own pricing page are listed first, then the rest, each group A to Z. This is not a ranking and no tool pays for its place. See the full Coding & Development list for every tool.
Cursor for reference: From $20/mo (Pro (legacy name)) · Free plan · UnverifiedFull Cursor pricing
No-code builder for mobile and web apps with an AI app generator, drag-and-drop screens and a hosted database. Publish to the App Store, Google Play or a custom domain on paid plans.
Open-source (MIT) workspace for building AI coworkers and agents that run in Slack, web embeds and on schedules, with traces and cost tracking. Cloud plans use credits and have no per-seat price.
From $29/mo (Starter)Free plan: 500 credits (one time)
Managed RAG platform: connect your documents and get retrieval through an API, SDKs and hosted search. Priced by pages processed, with extra connectors billed separately.
From $49/mo (Pro)Free plan: 10,000 retrievals per month
Turns plain-English questions into SQL, runs it read-only on your own database, and explains, fixes and optimizes queries. Paid plans start with a 7-day trial that needs a card.
Open-source AI pair programming tool that runs in your terminal and edits code in your git repo. Free under Apache 2.0; you pay only for the LLM API you connect.
AI agency and coding platform that builds and runs apps from a description, plus an OpenAI-compatible API. Free monthly tokens, then token-credit plans priced by how many apps you run.
AI assistant from Anthropic for chat, writing, analysis and coding help, with a free tier and paid tiers that raise usage limits. Pro includes the Claude Code coding tool.
Finds and fixes data and label errors in datasets, and offers a Trustworthy Language Model that scores how reliable an LLM answer is. TLM is pay-per-token after free tokens.
Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal. The extension is free; you pay only the model provider for usage. Enterprise adds SSO, audit logs and support.
AI optimizer that finds faster versions of your Python, JavaScript, TypeScript and Java code, benchmarks them and opens verified pull requests on GitHub.
From $20/mo (Pro)Free plan: 25 optimizations per month
Enterprise language-model API (Command family) for RAG, agents and multilingual apps. Free trial keys for testing; production keys are billed per million tokens.
MCP server from Upstash that feeds current library documentation into Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf and other AI coding tools so the model stops using stale APIs.
AI software-engineering agent with a CLI and cloud workspace, billed by monthly credits shared across the whole team with no per-seat price. It can also route through your ChatGPT or Claude subscription.
Free text-to-diagram tool from Eraser that turns prompts or code into technical diagrams. The full Eraser app adds AI credits, maps, Git and data sources, priced per member.
From $60/mo (Business)Free plan: 3 AI credits (one time)
AI documentation platform that connects to your repositories and writes, organizes and updates documentation for a whole codebase. One AI-generated page uses one credit.
Builds and maintains documentation, specs and agent memory from your repos, issues and chats so coding agents keep context. Free for public repositories.
Web search API built for AI agents. It runs its own index and returns ranked pages with text and highlights in one call. Pay-as-you-go with no subscription; search starts at $4 per 1,000 requests.
Paid price not foundFree plan: 10 dollars in credits per month
Fast inference platform for open models. Serverless is billed per token against prepaid credits; fine-tuning, dedicated GPUs and enterprise reserved capacity are also offered.
AI coding assistant that works inside code editors and on GitHub. Individual plans bundle code completions with a monthly balance of AI credits for chat and agent features.
From $10/mo (Pro)Free plan: 2,000 code completions per month
Builder for internal business apps from a spreadsheet, prompt or file. The current product is GlideOS (credit based); the older Glide Classic is priced separately.
Free desktop app from Nomic that runs open-source chat models on your own laptop with no internet, plus LocalDocs for chatting with your files. No account or key needed.
AI code reviewer that reads your whole codebase and comments on pull requests. Pro has no seat fee: you pay per credit, shared across the organisation.
Fast AI inference cloud (GroqCloud) with an OpenAI-compatible API for open models and Whisper speech-to-text. The free tier is for testing; the Developer tier is pay-as-you-go per token.
Open-source LLM observability and gateway: log, monitor and debug AI app requests with a one-line proxy change. Flat monthly plans, plus usage-based fees for requests and storage above the included amounts.
From $79/mo (Pro)Free plan: 10,000 requests per month
Test automation platform: Katalon Studio IDE with AI script generation, TestOps for test management, and TestCloud for cloud browsers and devices. Sold per seat.
Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the CLI with 500+ models. Individual use is free; you pay model providers at cost, or use Kilo credits and an optional Kilo Pass.
