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Top 12 alternatives to Codeium (Windsurf)

Free AI code assistant and agentic IDE. Here are 12 other developer tools tools — ranked by rating, review volume, and how well they overlap with your existing stack.

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Codeium (Windsurf)

Free AI code assistant and agentic IDE

4.5(2,800)

Free / from $10/mo

12 alternatives

GitHub Copilot

AI pair programmer that writes code with you

4.7(12,400)

From $10/mo

Claude Code

Agentic coding tool by Anthropic for the terminal

4.8(3,200)

Usage-based / included in Max plan

v0 by Vercel

AI-powered UI generation from text descriptions

4.7(9,800)

Free / $20/mo Premium

Cursor

The AI-first code editor built for productivity

4.8(5,600)

Free / from $20/mo

New this month

Google Antigravity

Google's free agentic IDE — Gemini 3 built in, 76% SWE-bench score

4.8(3,200)

Free

Lovable

Build full-stack apps from a plain English description

4.6(4,300)

Free / from $20/mo

New this month

Resend

The email API built for modern developers — transactional and broadcast in one platform

4.8(1,200)

Free / From $20/mo

Tabnine

AI code assistant with privacy-first approach

4.4(3,400)

Free / from $12/mo

Pieces for Developers

AI-powered code snippet manager and workflow copilot

4.4(3,400)

Free / $10/mo Pro

Vercel

AI-powered frontend deployment and development platform

4.7(6,200)

Free / from $20/user/mo

New this month

Cline

Open-source VS Code AI agent that runs on your own API keys

4.7(2,800)

Free (pay own API costs)

Linear

AI-powered project management for software teams

4.8(3,400)

Free / from $8/user/mo

How we ranked these

Alternatives are scored on a blend of average rating, review volume, integration overlap with Codeium (Windsurf), and editorial verification. We exclude apps from other categories so you only see real like-for-like options. All listings are independent — no tool pays to appear here.