Best Free IDEs, Code Editors & AI Coding Tools

Free 1-year All Products Pack subscription (IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, WebStorm, PyCharm, CLion, Rider, GoLand, RubyMine, etc.) for active open source project contributors. Renewable annually

Android Studio provides the fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device. Open Source IDE is free for everyone and the best Android app development. Available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and even ChromeOS!

An Open Source IDE to develop real, Gradle-based Android applications on Android devices.

Development Environment, Tooling Platform and Application Framework.

BBEdit is a popular and extensible editor for macOS. Free Mode provides a [powerful core feature set](https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/comparison.html) and an upgrade path to advanced features.

Brackets is an open-source text editor specifically designed for web development. It is lightweight, easy to use, and highly customizable.

Free Fortran & C/C++ IDE. Open Source and runs on Windows,macOS & Linux.

Sublime Text is a popular, versatile, and highly customizable text editor used for coding and text editing tasks.

Code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Developed by Microsoft.

Fully-featured IDE with thousands of extensions, cross-platform app development (Microsoft extensions available for download for iOS and Android), desktop, web and cloud development, multi-language support (C#, C++, JavaScript, Python, PHP and more).

Community-driven, without telemetry/tracking, and freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode

Wave is an open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows. Render anything inline. Save sessions and history. Powered by open web standards. MacOS and Linux.

Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.

Cloud development environments — 120 core hours/month (60 hours on 2-core machine) + 15 GB storage free for all GitHub users. Pre-configured dev containers with VS Code in browser

Visual Studio Code for CS50 is a web app at code.cs50.io that adapts GitHub Codespaces for students and teachers.

Front-end code playground — unlimited public pens (HTML/CSS/JS), 1 project with 10 files, asset hosting, embedded previews, console, live collaboration. Supports preprocessors (Sass, LESS, TypeScript)

Cloud IDE — unlimited Browser & VM Sandboxes, 5 members, 40 hrs/month VM credits (up to 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 20 GB storage per VM). SDK lite capped at 10 concurrent VM Sandboxes, 20 new Sandboxes/hour, 1,000 hourly API requests. Real-time collaboration, GitHub integration, instant previews

Web-based and Kubernetes-Native IDE for Developer Teams with multi-language support. Open Source and community-driven. An online instance hosted by Red Hat is available at [workspaces.openshift.com](https://workspaces.openshift.com/).

Instant free Linux and IDEs chrome sidebar. The free tier includes 5 VMs per day.

Online compiler and editor for more than 60 programming languages with a free plan for REST API code compiling up to 200 credits per day.

Cloud IDE with AI coding assistant — code completion, debugging, code explanation, unit test generation. 2 GB workspace storage, supports 100+ languages and frameworks

Free online compiler supporting 70+ languages including Java, Python, C++, JavaScript.

Develop Web apps in Browser without needing to set up anything. Free Plan offers one server with 24 24-hour lifetime and 4 hours of running time per day with 2 CPU cores, 2 GB RAM, and 1 GB storage.

Online development environment for PHP

Cloud IDE with AI code assistant — 10 GiB account storage, multiplayer collaboration, unlimited public Repls. Supports 50+ languages. Built-in hosting, version history, and package management. Core plan $20/month (was $25, now includes up to 5 collaborators), new Pro plan $100/month with Agent modes and up to 15 builders. Teams plan sunset (migrated to Pro). Free tier unchanged (limited AI credits, basic compute)

A cloud programming playground well-suited for running code snippets. Supports various programming languages. No registration is required for running code, but it is necessary when saving code on their platform. Also offers free courses for beginners and intermediate-level coders.

Browser-based IDE with WebContainers — unlimited public projects and GitHub repos. Runs Node.js natively in the browser with no remote server. Instant environment setup, offline support

In-browser IDE to code web components in isolation with 58 templates available, supporting stories, and tests.

FlutLab is a modern Flutter online IDE and the best place to create, debug, and build cross-platform projects. Build iOS (Without a Mac) and Android apps with Flutter.

AI-powered code editor built on VS Code. Hobby is the free plan: no credit card required, limited Agent requests, access to Composer — cursor.com/pricing states no completion or request figure for it. Individual paid plans: Pro $20/month, Pro+ $60/month (3x Pro's Agent limits), Ultra $200/month (20x). Teams $40/user/month (Standard; Premium at 5x Standard's Agent limits). Enterprise is custom-priced with pooled usage, invoice/PO billing and SCIM. Cursor renders only the selected tier's price in the page body; the full ladder is published in the page's JSON-LD Offer list.

Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, supermaven.com reads: The free tier is $0/month and includes fast, high-quality code suggestions, works with large codebases, and has a 7-day data retention limit. We are not publishing our stored Supermaven terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓

AI-enabled pair programmer for Claude, GPT4 Series, Grok, Deepseek, Gemini and all frontier models. Works natively with your CLI and integrates seamlessly with any IDE. Free tier includes basic AI model access with local processing.

Agentic coding tool by Anthropic — terminal-based AI coding agent that reads/writes files, runs commands, and manages git workflows. Available to Claude Pro ($20/mo), Team ($25/seat/mo), and Max ($100-200/mo) subscribers. Uses Claude Sonnet/Opus models. Also available via Anthropic API with usage-based pricing. Free tier via Claude.ai (limited Sonnet usage, Projects, Artifacts). April 2026 changes: (1) Third-party tool restrictions — external tools like OpenClaw now billed separately on pay-as-you-go basis, can no longer apply standard usage limits. (2) Extra usage option — all paid plans (Pro, Max 5x, Max 20x) now have pay-as-you-go overage at standard API rates beyond included usage. (3) Peak-hour throttling — 5-hour session limits reduced during weekdays 5 AM–11 AM Pacific.

AI coding assistant by GitHub/Microsoft. Works in VS Code/JetBrains/GitHub.com. Copilot Free: 2,000 completions/month, an allowance of GitHub AI Credits, limited agents, auto model selection only. Copilot Student is free to verified students. Pro $10/mo (base 1,000 AI credits), Pro+ $39/mo (3,900), Max $100/mo (10,000), Business $19/granted seat/mo (1,900 per user), Enterprise $39/granted seat/mo (3,900 per user). Usage beyond the allowance is billed at $0.01/AI credit; code completions and next edit suggestions are unlimited on paid plans and not billed in credits. The April 2026 pause on new Pro, Pro+ and Student signups has been lifted — all individual plans accept new signups today. New self-serve purchase of Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise remains paused (2026-04-22), with GitHub saying sign-ups reopen soon for card and PayPal customers.

AI coding assistant by AWS. Free tier: inline code suggestions, chat, 1,000 lines code transformation/month, 50 agentic requests/month, access to latest Claude models. Supports VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, and AWS Console. Pro plan $19/user/month (higher limits, admin controls, IP indemnity)

Open-source autonomous AI coding agent for VS Code. Fully free — users provide their own API keys (OpenRouter, Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.). Supports file editing, terminal commands, browser interaction. No usage limits beyond API provider costs. MIT licensed.

Open-source AI pair programming CLI tool. Fully free — users provide their own LLM API keys (supports GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama local models). Git-aware editing, multi-file changes, voice coding, in-chat image support. Apache 2.0 licensed.

AI-powered IDE by Codeium (formerly Codeium Editor). Free tier: limited daily quotas for Cascade AI flows, code completions, AI chat (credit system replaced by quotas Mar 2026). Pro $20/mo, Teams $40/mo, Max $200/mo. SWE-1.5 Fast Agent model for faster iteration. Grandfathered Pro subscribers keep $15/mo indefinitely. All tiers include premium models

AI coding assistant with deep codebase understanding. No free tier. Standard $20/month flat and Business $100/month flat, each covering up to 50 seats with $20 and $100 of included monthly usage respectively across LLM, Context Engine and compute; top-ups are pay-as-you-go. Enterprise is custom-priced. Flat team pricing with no per-seat charge. Supports VS Code, JetBrains and CLI. SOC 2 Type II certified

Open-source terminal AI coding agent by Google. Free tier with personal Google account: 60 requests/minute, 1,000 requests/day, 1M token context window. Powered by Gemini 3. Supports MCP tools, shell commands, file editing. Apache 2.0 licensed

Cloud-native coding agent by OpenAI. Available with a ChatGPT subscription and, separately, with an API key billed on token use; both routes are current. ChatGPT Business has two seat types, both carrying Codex: Standard at $20/user/mo billed annually ($25 monthly) and Premium at $100/user/mo billed annually ($125 monthly), where Premium buys 5x more usage than Standard and removes the five-hour usage limit. Also in ChatGPT Plus ($20/mo) and Pro (from $100/mo). Codex-only pay-as-you-go seats closed to new Business workspaces in June 2026; existing seats continue. The Codex pricing page we cite lists only the Standard seat — the Premium seat is published on OpenAI's business pricing page. $100 credit per new Codex team member (up to $500/team, limited time). 2M+ weekly users. API via codex-mini at $1.50/1M input, $6/1M output tokens.

Converts Figma designs into dynamic Flutter and React applications. Its code generation technology is designed to optimize workflows for building production-ready mobile and web experiences.

An AI-powered site builder and editor that generates production-ready frontend code from text prompts, sketches, or resumes. Features include native Android (APK) export and a free tier with 5 generations per month (unlimited via custom Gemini API key).

Created by Vercel, v0 generates copy-and-paste friendly React code using shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS. Free plan: $5 of included monthly credits, 7 messages/day limit. Visual editing with Design Mode, GitHub sync, and deploy to Vercel included. (v0.dev now redirects to v0.app.)

Autonomous AI software engineer by Cognition Labs. Core plan pay-as-you-go starting at $20 (ACUs at $2.25 each). Team plan $500/mo (250 ACUs at $2.00 each). Enterprise with custom pricing, VPC deployment, SSO. Previously $500-only pricing before January 2026 restructuring

AI app builder by StackBlitz — generates frontend, backend, and database code in a live runtime environment. Free tier: 1M tokens/month (300K daily cap), unlimited databases, public + private projects, native hosting with Bolt branding, 10MB file upload limit. Paid plans from $20/mo for higher token limits.

AI app builder (formerly GPT Engineer) — generates full-stack apps from natural language. Free tier: 5 daily credits (up to 30/month), public projects only (private projects require paid plan), cloud hosting on lovable.app, Lovable branding badge. Credits consumed at variable rates (simple styling ~0.50, auth setup ~1.20, full landing page ~1.70). Pro $25/mo (100 credits + 5 daily). Business $50/mo.

Agent-first IDE by Google, powered by Gemini 3. 100% free during public preview — no paid tiers yet. Built-in browser automation, multi-agent orchestration, cross-platform (Mac/Windows/Linux). Announced November 2025.

A free cloud-based code snippet manager for personal and collaborative code.

Free code interview platform with embedded video chat, drawing board, and online code editor where you can compile and run your code on the browser. You can create a remote interview room with just one click.

A C#-specific tool that generates boilerplate code on the fly during compilation to keep source code clean. It is free for open-source projects; its commercial-friendly free tier includes up to three aspects.

A free Java Development Environment designed for beginners, used by millions worldwide. Powered by Oracle & simple GUI to help beginners.

Code snippet organizer with labels and support for 100+ programming languages.

Coding activity tracker via editor plugins — 1-week dashboard history, 1 programming goal, weekly email reports, public leaderboard. Supports 60+ IDEs including VS Code, JetBrains, Vim

an extension for time-tracking and coding metrics in VS Code, Atom, IntelliJ, Sublime Text, and more.

AI coding assistant by Google — 6,000 code completions/day, 240 chat requests/day, 1,000 Gemini CLI + Agent Mode requests/day (shared pool), powered by Gemini 2.5 on the free Individual tier. Gemini 3 is available to Google AI Ultra subscribers; others can join the waitlist. Available in VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Android Studio, Cloud Workstations. Requires only a Gmail account, no credit card. 90x more completions than GitHub Copilot free tier

Superseded: As of 2026-09-03, kiro.dev/pricing reads: KIRO FREE $0 per month 50 credits. KIRO PRO $20 per user / month 1,000 credits. KIRO PRO+ $40 per user / month 2,000 credits. KIRO PRO MAX $100 per user / month 5,000 credits. KIRO POWER $200 per user / month 10,000 credits. Add-on credits are $0.04/credit. $20 credit towards first paid plan upgrade. We are not publishing our stored Amazon Kiro terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-09-03, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓