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Best AI coding assistants
Autocomplete, chat and agents inside your editor. 6 tools in this list, 6 with a free plan.
How this list is ranked. Tools are ordered by how strongly they are built for this job (as tagged in VERILO’s catalogue), then by editorial score and editor rating. Affiliate relationships and featured status are never inputs.
- 01
GitHub Copilot
Built for itGitHub's AI coding assistant with completions, chat, code review and a coding agent across major editors.
4.5From $10/moFree plan- This is a core use case of the product.
- Includes AI assistant, AI agents, Roles & permissions
- 02
Cursor
Built for itAI code editor forked from VS Code with autocomplete, codebase chat and agents that edit and run code.
4.4From $20/moFree plan- This is a core use case of the product.
- Includes AI assistant, AI agents, Roles & permissions
- 03
ChatGPT
Good at itOpenAI's AI assistant for writing, research, coding, image creation and voice conversations.
4.7From $8/moFree plan- Well supported, though not the product's main focus.
- Includes AI assistant, AI content generation, AI agents
- 04
GitHub
Good at itCode hosting platform with Git repositories, pull requests, issues, CI/CD via Actions and Copilot AI.
4.7From $4/moFree plan- Well supported, though not the product's main focus.
- Includes AI assistant, AI agents, Roles & permissions
- 05
Claude
Good at itAnthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis and coding, with Projects, connectors and the Claude Code agent.
4.6From $20/moFree plan- Well supported, though not the product's main focus.
- Includes AI assistant, AI content generation, AI agents
- 06
Replit
Good at itBrowser-based development environment with hosting, databases and an AI agent that builds apps from prompts.
4.0From $25/moFree plan- Well supported, though not the product's main focus.
- Includes AI assistant, AI content generation, AI agents
Choosing between the top two?
See GitHub Copilot and Cursor side by side on pricing, free plans, ease of use and features.
Compare GitHub Copilot vs Cursor6 tools compared. Each listing shows when its information was last reviewed; prices can change, so check the vendor’s pricing page before you decide.