IDEs & Code Editors brand directory

GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered developer platform combining real-time code completions, conversational chat, autonomous agentic coding, and AI-driven code review across IDEs, the command line, and GitHub.com. It supports multiple leading LLMs—OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, xAI Grok, and others—and integrates natively with the world's largest code hosting platform, giving it unique distribution breadth and deep contextual awareness of developer workflows from commit to deployment.

JetBrains offers a broad ecosystem of language-specific professional IDEs built on the IntelliJ platform, complemented by CI/CD (TeamCity), issue tracking (YouTrack), code quality (Qodana), and AI-assisted development tools (AI Assistant, Junie agent, Mellum LLM). The company also created and maintains the Kotlin programming language and Kotlin Multiplatform. Products are available individually or bundled in the All Products Pack subscription.

Cursor is an AI-first integrated development environment (IDE) built by Anysphere as a fork of Visual Studio Code. It embeds AI across the entire software development lifecycle: a specialized Tab model delivers fast, multi-line predictive autocomplete; the Composer/Agent system executes natural-language-described tasks as autonomous, multi-file edits across entire repositories; cloud agents run tasks in parallel on remote machines; Bugbot reviews pull requests automatically on GitHub and GitLab; and a CLI agent brings AI assistance to the terminal. Cursor supports frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and xAI, as well as its own proprietary Composer 2 model optimized for cost-efficient sub-agent coordination. Enterprise features include SAML/OIDC SSO, SCIM, audit logs, privacy mode (with SOC 2 Type 2 certification), pooled usage, and granular model controls. The editor inherits the VS Code extension ecosystem, making adoption frictionless for the large developer population already on VS Code.

Visual Studio Code is Microsoft's free, open-source, cross-platform code editor—the most widely used developer tool globally, with 75.9% adoption among professional developers as of 2025. It delivers a lightweight yet powerful editing experience extensible through 80,000+ marketplace plugins, with GitHub Copilot providing integrated AI agent, chat, and code completion capabilities. It runs on desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux) and in the browser via vscode.dev.

Zed is a native, Rust-based code editor for macOS, Linux, and Windows that combines GPU-accelerated performance, real-time CRDT-powered multiplayer collaboration, and deeply integrated agentic AI capabilities—including a parallel agents feature and the open-weight Zeta2 edit prediction model—in a single open-source application.

Gitpod (now rebranded as Ona) is a cloud development environment platform that spins up fully pre-configured, ephemeral development workspaces in seconds from any Git repository. Workspaces are defined declaratively via .gitpod.yml or devcontainer.json, run in isolated Linux containers, and support browser-based VS Code and JetBrains IDEs. Enterprise deployments run inside customer VPCs with audit logging, RBAC, and OIDC. Since its September 2025 rebrand to Ona, the platform has expanded to AI agent orchestration — enabling autonomous software engineering agents to write code, run tests, and open pull requests inside sandboxed, kernel-isolated cloud environments governed by enterprise-grade compliance controls.

Tabnine is an enterprise AI coding platform offering code completions, AI chat, and agentic SDLC workflows, deployable in SaaS, VPC, on-premises, or air-gapped environments. Its Enterprise Context Engine learns organizational architecture, coding standards, and dependencies to ground AI suggestions in each team's unique context. The platform supports 80+ programming languages, all major IDEs, and multiple LLMs including models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Mistral, with bring-your-own-model options.

Windsurf is an agentic AI IDE built around Cascade, an AI system that understands entire codebases, autonomously edits across multiple files, executes terminal commands, and maintains persistent memory of project conventions between sessions. Distributed as both a standalone VS Code-based editor and plugins for 40+ IDEs, it targets developers who want AI to be a first-class participant in the development process rather than a sidebar autocomplete tool.

Replit is a browser-based, AI-first software creation platform that combines a cloud IDE, autonomous coding agent, full-stack infrastructure, and one-click deployment into a single environment. Its flagship product, Replit Agent, enables users to describe apps in natural language and have Agent autonomously generate, test, and deploy production-ready code — without any local setup, downloads, or deep programming expertise required. The platform targets a broad audience from professional developers to non-technical knowledge workers, and offers built-in authentication, databases, hosting, security scanning, mobile development tooling, and 100+ integrations with services like Stripe, Snowflake, Databricks, OpenAI, and Figma.

StackBlitz provides browser-native development environments powered by its proprietary WebContainers runtime, which boots complete Node.js toolchains inside the browser sandbox in milliseconds. Its product suite spans a collaborative online IDE (StackBlitz Classic/Codeflow), an enterprise self-hosted server, a public WebContainer API for embedding dev environments in third-party apps, and Bolt.new—an AI-native full-stack application builder that generates, edits, and deploys complete web applications from plain-English descriptions using Anthropic's Claude models.

CodeSandbox provides cloud-based isolated development environments (sandboxes and devboxes) powered by proprietary Firecracker microVM infrastructure, the Sandpack open-source embeddable code playground toolkit, and the CodeSandbox SDK—an API-driven platform for programmatic, large-scale sandbox creation and management targeting AI agent workflows and developer tooling teams.