TL;DR: For everyday coding with AI, our top pick is Cursor. 5 tools ranked below.
Best AI code editors for everyday coding with AI
Editors and IDE extensions where you pair with AI line by line or hand off agent tasks.
Tier S
- Cursor
The most polished AI editor for everyday shipping.
Tier A
- Cline
The best free, model-agnostic agent inside VS Code.
- GitHub Copilot
Cheap and everywhere. The natural choice if your work lives on GitHub.
- Google Antigravity
A generous free tier and parallel agents make it the easiest way to start for free.
Tier B
- Windsurf (Devin Desktop)
Still a capable editor, but its direction is in flux after the merger.