CursorAI code editor; Cursor 3 adds an agents window to run parallel agents.Claude CodeAnthropic's agentic coding tool: delegate engineering tasks from your terminal.LovableBuild and publish full-stack web apps by chatting with AI.Bolt.newPrompt, run, edit and deploy full-stack apps entirely in your browser.v0Vercel's prompt-to-app builder with Design Mode and one-click deploy.ReplitBrowser IDE whose Replit Agent builds and deploys apps from a description.WindsurfAgentic IDE with Cascade; now part of Cognition (Devin Desktop).ZedOpen-source Rust editor at 120fps with an agent panel and parallel agents.GitHub CopilotCopilot agent mode in VS Code: edits files, runs commands, fixes its own errors.Codex CLIOpenAI's open-source coding agent that runs locally in your terminal.Gemini CLIGoogle's open-source terminal agent; free tier moved to Antigravity CLI in 2026.Base44Describe an app, get a working app with auth, database and hosting. Owned by Wix.n8nVisual workflow automation with AI agent nodes; self-host free.LangSmith Agent BuilderLangChain's no-code agent builder: describe the job, it writes its own instructions.DifyOpen-source platform for LLM apps: visual workflows, RAG and agents.RunwayGen-4.5 video generation with consistent characters and worlds.Kling AIKuaishou's video model: 15s clips, native audio, multi-shot storyboards.Google VeoGoogle DeepMind's video model with native sound, in Flow and the Gemini app.PikaPlayful text/image-to-video with effects like Pikaffects.HeyGenTurn one recording into a realistic AI avatar that presents any script.MidjourneyDistinctive art-quality images, now animated with V1 video.IdeogramImage generator famous for clean, accurate text in logos and posters.RecraftDesign-grade images and real vector SVGs, logos and brand styles.ClineOpen-source coding agent in VS Code with Plan/Act modes; bring any model.DevinCognition's autonomous AI software engineer, in the cloud or locally.KiroSpec-driven agentic IDE: turns prompts into specs, then code.Google AntigravityGoogle's agent-first IDE: agents plan, build and verify apps in a browser.WarpAgentic development environment: a modern terminal with built-in coding agents.Luma Dream MachineRay3 video model with HDR and fast Draft Mode.Adobe FireflyAdobe's commercially-safe image, video and vector generator.

CursorAI code editor; Cursor 3 adds an agents window to run parallel agents.Claude CodeAnthropic's agentic coding tool: delegate engineering tasks from your terminal.LovableBuild and publish full-stack web apps by chatting with AI.Bolt.newPrompt, run, edit and deploy full-stack apps entirely in your browser.v0Vercel's prompt-to-app builder with Design Mode and one-click deploy.ReplitBrowser IDE whose Replit Agent builds and deploys apps from a description.WindsurfAgentic IDE with Cascade; now part of Cognition (Devin Desktop).ZedOpen-source Rust editor at 120fps with an agent panel and parallel agents.GitHub CopilotCopilot agent mode in VS Code: edits files, runs commands, fixes its own errors.Codex CLIOpenAI's open-source coding agent that runs locally in your terminal.Gemini CLIGoogle's open-source terminal agent; free tier moved to Antigravity CLI in 2026.Base44Describe an app, get a working app with auth, database and hosting. Owned by Wix.n8nVisual workflow automation with AI agent nodes; self-host free.LangSmith Agent BuilderLangChain's no-code agent builder: describe the job, it writes its own instructions.DifyOpen-source platform for LLM apps: visual workflows, RAG and agents.RunwayGen-4.5 video generation with consistent characters and worlds.Kling AIKuaishou's video model: 15s clips, native audio, multi-shot storyboards.Google VeoGoogle DeepMind's video model with native sound, in Flow and the Gemini app.PikaPlayful text/image-to-video with effects like Pikaffects.HeyGenTurn one recording into a realistic AI avatar that presents any script.MidjourneyDistinctive art-quality images, now animated with V1 video.IdeogramImage generator famous for clean, accurate text in logos and posters.RecraftDesign-grade images and real vector SVGs, logos and brand styles.ClineOpen-source coding agent in VS Code with Plan/Act modes; bring any model.DevinCognition's autonomous AI software engineer, in the cloud or locally.KiroSpec-driven agentic IDE: turns prompts into specs, then code.Google AntigravityGoogle's agent-first IDE: agents plan, build and verify apps in a browser.WarpAgentic development environment: a modern terminal with built-in coding agents.Luma Dream MachineRay3 video model with HDR and fast Draft Mode.Adobe FireflyAdobe's commercially-safe image, video and vector generator.

Cline

Open-source VS Code agent

Open-source autonomous coding agent extension for VS Code.

Visit Cline · Pricing: See official site · Last verified 2026-10-17

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