AI-enhanced integrated development environments

Visual Studio Code

A free, open-source code editor with extensive language support and an ecosystem of extensions (including AI agents like GitHub Copilot) for editing, debugging, and version control.

MicrosoftMIT

Cursor

An AI-powered code editor built on VS Code with advanced AI capabilities for code generation, editing, and understanding.

AnysphereProprietary

Windsurf Editor

An AI-native IDE featuring the "Cascade" assistant that autonomously generates, edits, tests, and deploys code. Integrates MCP servers and plugin hooks to maintain developer flow state.

CognitionProprietary

TRAE

An AI-powered IDE that acts as a 10x "AI engineer," providing real-time code completion, chat-based assistance, and autonomous code generation (Builder/SOLO mode) for end-to-end development.

ByteDanceProprietary

Kiro

AWS's agentic IDE that brings spec-driven development to VS Code. Uses AI agents to convert natural language specs into code, automate tasks, and integrate with workflows.

Amazon Web ServicesProprietary

Qoder

An agentic AI coding platform for real software development, integrating context-aware intelligent agents to handle code generation and project-level tasks.

AlibabaProprietary

CodeBuddy IDE

Tencent's AI coding assistant offering intelligent code completion, multi-file code generation (Craft Mode), design-to-code conversion, and integrated deployment tools.

TencentProprietary

Droid

An AI development platform providing "Droids" - autonomous coding agents that automate software tasks across workflows. Droids refactor code, handle debugging and tests, and generate features.

Factory.aiProprietary

Zed

A next-generation code editor built in Rust for high-performance collaboration with humans and AI. Features agentic editing, multibuffer editing, and native Git support.

Zed IndustriesGPL-3.0

IntelliJ IDEA

A powerful Java IDE with intelligent code assistance, refactoring tools, and support for multiple languages. Available in Community (free) and Ultimate (paid) editions.

JetBrainsProprietary

CodeFlicker

An AI-powered intelligent code editor designed to unleash your coding imagination with advanced AI assistance.

StreamLakeProprietary
IDEs - Best AI-Powered IDEs 2025 | VS Code, Cursor, TRAE - VCPanel