- Fully fledged agentic IDE, built on VSCode.
- Pioneered the modern version of tab completion
GitHub CoPilot
- Similar to Cursor, built on the original VSCode.
- Evolution of the original AI coding model, but seems to have lagged behind the newer startups.
- Less performant for large edits.
Codex
- New (as of May 2025) from OpenAI.
- Not to be confused with their existing models called
codex.
- Less collaborative than IDEs.
- Available on the most expensive ChatGPT plan ($200 / month)
- Has a CLI that is billed separately.
- Creates pull requests for changes.
Windsurf
- Pending, haven't used this yet.