The best AI coding assistants to try in 2025
What are AI coding assistants?
AI Coding Assistants help developers write, debug, and optimize code faster by leveraging artificial intelligence. These tools can autocomplete code snippets, suggest improvements, identify bugs, and even generate entire code blocks based on natural language input. They’re designed to increase productivity by handling repetitive tasks, reducing errors, and offering real-time solutions, allowing developers to focus on higher-level logic and problem-solving.
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Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best way to code with AI.
Lovable
—The world's first AI Fullstack Engineer
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The AI Fullstack Engineer that works. Ship lovable full-stack applications 20x faster than by writing code ❤
Windsurf
—The first agentic IDE. Tomorrow's editor, today.
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Windsurf is an IDE that enables anyone to collaborate in lockstep with AI. Built by the Codeium team, the Windsurf Editor combines the best of copilot and agent systems to help you ship products faster, leveraging better context to provide better suggestions.
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Zed is a next-generation code editor designed for high-performance collaboration with humans and AI.
Github Copilot
—Your AI pair programmer
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GitHub Copilot works alongside you directly in your editor, suggesting whole lines or entire functions for you. Powered by OpenAI its trained on billions of lines of public code, saving you time and helping you stay focused.
Claude Code
—Anthropic’s deep-context AI coder
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Anthropic’s AI coding assistant, designed for deep context understanding and capable of handling complex software tasks with a massive context window (up to 200K tokens).
Warp
—The first agentic development environment
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Warp is the agentic development environment, built for coding with multiple AI agents.
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Base44 empowers non-technical people to turn ideas into fully functional products. Just describe your vision—web apps, tools, games—and Base44 handles everything, no coding or integrations needed.
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Make development more productive and enjoyable with WebStorm, the IDE for JavaScript and related technologies.
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Cheat Layer builds entire automations for you from end-to-end in simple language, meeting all users at their level of understanding. We taught ChatGPT our internal library to solve the last-mile of automation roadblocks, enabling it to execute code instantly.
