GitHub Copilot is the default choice for organisations already building on GitHub | AI Coding Tools | 4.5 | — | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.0 | Founded 2021 HQ San Francisco Funding Subsidiary of Microsoft |
Cline is the right choice for developers and teams who want maximum flexibility in their AI coding workflow | AI Coding Tools | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 3.0 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.5 | Founded 2024 HQ Sacramento Funding $32M seed and Series A |
Cursor is the right choice for development teams that want AI deeply integrated into their editing workflow, not | AI Coding Tools | 4.0 | — | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.0 | Founded 2022 HQ San Francisco Funding $3.3B total |
Microsoft Copilot Studio is the strongest choice for enterprises already invested in Microsoft 365 that want AI agents embedded into | AI Coding Tools | 4.0 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 2.5 | Founded 1975 HQ Redmond Funding Public (NASDAQ: MSFT) |
Windsurf is the right choice for developers and teams who want an agentic coding experience at a competitive price | AI Coding Tools | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.5 | Founded 2021 HQ Mountain View Funding $243M |
Augment Code is built for a specific buyer: enterprise engineering teams managing large, multi-repository codebases where | AI Coding Tools | 3.5 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 5.0 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 2.5 | Founded 2022 HQ Palo Alto Funding $252M total |
Replit occupies a unique position in the AI development landscape | AI Coding Tools | 3.5 | — | — | 4.5 | 4.0 | 3.0 | — | 3.5 | 3.0 | Founded 2016 HQ San Francisco Funding $222M |