--- title: "AI-native IDEs compared" description: "AI-native editors ship the agent inside the editor. Most are VS Code forks, a few are written from scratch. They tend to sell their own plans with included usage and an overage rate, which is where the compare table earns its keep." canonical_url: "https://whichcoding.tools/layers/editor" --- # AI-native IDEs > AI-native editors ship the agent inside the editor. Most are VS Code forks, a few are written from scratch. They tend to sell their own plans with included usage and an overage rate, which is where the compare table earns its keep. ## AI-native IDEs (13) - [Aide](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/aide) (Free): CodeStory's open source VS Code fork with a combined chat and edit flow, proactive agents and an inline editing widget, backed by the Sidecar binary. Sunset in February 2025. - [Cursor](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/cursor) (Free tier): The VS Code fork that popularised AI-native editing. Cursor 3 replaced Composer with an Agents window and Cursor Router picks models by cost, balance or intelligence. - [Devin Desktop](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/devin-desktop) (Free tier): Cognition's AI-native IDE, renamed from Windsurf over the air on 2 June 2026. Devin Local, a Rust rewrite of the Cascade agent, adds sub-agents and sandboxing. - [Google Antigravity](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/google-antigravity) (Free tier): Google's agentic development platform. A desktop app, a VS Code based IDE, a CLI and editor extensions share one harness. Free, with higher limits on Google AI Pro and Ultra. - [Kiro](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/kiro) (Free tier): AWS's agentic IDE on a VS Code foundation, with a CLI, a web agent and an iOS app sharing one .kiro config. Specs, steering and hooks drive the agent. Plans are priced in credits. - [PearAI](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/pearai) (Free tier): Open source VS Code fork with an agent built on a Roo Code and Cline fork and a chat panel forked from Continue. Your own keys or local models, or the PearAI Router on paid. - [Qoder](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/qoder) (Free tier): Alibaba's agentic IDE for macOS, Windows and Linux with a JetBrains plugin, a CLI and cloud agents. Quest runs multi agent tasks in a sandbox, with a phone app for approvals. - [Trae](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/trae) (Free tier): ByteDance's VS Code based IDE, now called TraeCode. IDE mode keeps you in control, SOLO mode lets the agent plan, code, test and preview. Plans include a monthly dollar balance. - [Visual Studio Code](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/vscode) (Free): Microsoft's free editor. Agent mode, chat and inline suggestions come from GitHub Copilot, and Claude Code, Codex, Cline and other agents install as extensions. - [Void](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/void) (Free): Open source VS Code fork with agent mode, checkpoints and tab completion that talked to any provider or local model directly. Deprecated in June 2026, old builds stay on GitHub. - [Xcode](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/xcode) (Free): Apple's IDE for its platforms. Since 26.3 the coding assistant runs Claude Agent and Codex inside Xcode, with ChatGPT, Claude or any Chat Completions provider for chat. - [ZCode](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/zcode) (Free tier): Z.ai's desktop Agentic Development Environment for GLM-5.3, with file management, terminal, Git commit and a live browser preview built around its ZCode Agent. - [Zed](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/zed) (Free tier): Open source editor written in Rust with GPU rendering. Hosts external agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI over ACP at no charge, with its own hosted models on Pro. ## Also available as an AI-native IDE (1) Products whose primary form is something else but ship one of these too. - [CodeBuddy](https://whichcoding.tools/tools/codebuddy) (Free tier): Tencent Cloud's AI coding assistant. It ships as the CodeBuddy Code CLI, a desktop IDE and an IDE plugin. ## Related [Open in the finder](https://whichcoding.tools/?where=editor) Data: CC BY 4.0. Credit whichcoding.tools and link to https://whichcoding.tools. Full terms in [LICENSE-DATA](https://github.com/benjamincanac/whichcodingtools/blob/main/LICENSE-DATA). ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](https://whichcoding.tools/sitemap.md) for all pages.