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 annuallyThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-13, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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!The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

An Open Source IDE to develop real, Gradle-based Android applications on Android devices.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Development Environment, Tooling Platform and Application Framework.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Sublime Text is a popular, versatile, and highly customizable text editor used for coding and text editing tasks.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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).When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-13, we found no earlier figure of ours for the page to have narrowed, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Community-driven, without telemetry/tracking, and freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCodeThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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)The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-16, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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 previewsWe could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-24, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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/).The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Instant free Linux and IDEs chrome sidebar. The free tier includes 5 VMs per day.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

The free tier includes the full IDE, saved projects, and all 114 languages, frameworks and databases. It allows 1,000 code executions per day and 100 saved projects.

Cloud IDE with AI coding assistant — code completion, debugging, code explanation, unit test generation. 2 GB workspace storage, supports 100+ languages and frameworksThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Free online compiler supporting 70+ languages including Java, Python, C++, JavaScript.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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 PHPThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Cloud IDE with AI code assistant — The Starter (Free) plan includes daily agent credits, the ability to create anything from slides to apps, a built-in database, and the ability to publish 1 live project.

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.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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 supportThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

In-browser IDE to code web components in isolation with 58 templates available, supporting stories, and tests.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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 is $40/user/month for a Standard seat or $120/user/month for a Premium seat (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.

A high-speed AI code completion plugin for VS Code, JetBrains, and Neovim — 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.

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: it reads a codebase, edits files, runs commands and works with development tools, in the terminal, IDEs, a desktop app and the browser. No free plan: "Claude Code is included in all paid plans", and Claude's Free plan does not include it. Pro is $20/month billed monthly ($17/month billed annually), Max is $100/month (5x) or $200/month (20x), Team Standard seats are $25/seat billed monthly ($20 billed annually), and Enterprise is "$20 per seat per month plus usage billed at API rates". Plan usage is shared with Claude chat. At the limit, paid plans can turn on usage credits billed at standard API rates, or use an Anthropic API key billed pay-as-you-go.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

AI coding assistant by GitHub. Copilot Free is $0 with no credit card: 2,000 code completions a month, a limited monthly allowance of GitHub AI Credits for chat and agent features, and models through auto model selection only. Copilot Student is free for verified students. Paid plans include a monthly allowance of AI credits: Pro $10 (1,500 credits), Pro+ $39 (7,000) and Max $100 (20,000); Business $19 (1,900) and Enterprise $39 (3,900) per seat. Code completions are unlimited on paid plans, and usage beyond an allowance costs $0.01 per AI credit.

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). AWS will end support for the Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins on April 30, 2027, and points IDE users to Kiro.

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.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Windsurf is now Devin Desktop ("Devin Desktop is the new name for Windsurf."), Cognition's AI IDE. windsurf.com/pricing redirects to devin.ai/pricing, which prices it together with Devin. The Free plan ($0) includes a "Light quota to code with agents", "Limited model availability", "Unlimited inline edits" and "Unlimited Tab completions", with quotas that reset daily and weekly. Pro is $20/month, Max $200/month, and Teams "$80/month for team plan + $40/mo per full dev seat"; paid plans can buy extra usage at API list prices. Pro subscribers on the old $15/month price keep it indefinitely.The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-09-24, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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, Apache 2.0 licensed. Since 2026-06-18, Login with Google no longer works for personal accounts, according to Google's Gemini Code Assist deprecation notice; the README still advertises 60 requests a minute and 1,000 a day with a personal Google account. With a Gemini API key, use counts against the Gemini API's own free tier and pricing. A Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise licence is unaffected. Supports MCP tools, shell commands and file editing.

Coding agent by OpenAI. Available with a ChatGPT subscription, including the $0 Free plan, and separately with an API key billed on token use; both routes are current. OpenAI's Codex pricing page lists Free ($0/month, "Explore Codex capabilities on quick coding tasks") and Go ($8/month, "Use Codex for lightweight coding tasks"), both with GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the desktop app, subject to rollout. Plus ($20/month) adds Codex on the web, in the CLI, in the IDE extension and on iOS, cloud code review and Slack integrations, and GPT-6 Sol. Pro (from $100/month) gives 5x or 20x more Codex usage than Plus. 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. The Codex pricing page we cite lists only the Standard seat — the Premium seat is published on OpenAI's business pricing page. Codex-only pay-as-you-go seats closed to new Business workspaces on 2026-06-24; existing seats continue. With an API key, Codex runs in the CLI, SDK or IDE extension at API prices, without the cloud features.

Superseded: As of 2026-08-28, dhiwise.com reads: The page describes Rocket as a no-code AI builder that generates full-stack apps from prompts, including backend and database setup. It offers features like one-shot app generation, UI/UX design, SEO-optimized copy, and deployment to platforms like Netlify and Github. The page asks 'Do you offer free plans?' but does not provide details. We are not publishing our stored DhiWise terms beside it — our own pricing change record, discovered 2026-08-28, names them as the previous ones. Read what we recorded ↓

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).We could not read the page we cite for this offer when we last looked, on 2026-09-26, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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.)The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Autonomous AI software engineer by Cognition. Cognition replaced its Core and Team plans on 2026-04-14 with Free, Pro, Max, Teams and Enterprise. Free ($0) includes a "Light quota to code with agents", "Limited model availability", "Unlimited inline edits" and "Unlimited Tab completions". Pro ($20/month) adds cloud agents, Max ($200/month) has "Significantly higher quotas", and Teams is "$80/month for team plan + $40/mo per full dev seat". Paid plans include a usage allowance, and extra usage is billed in dollars at API pricing. Enterprise is custom-priced, with VPC deployment and SAML/OIDC SSO, and is billed in Agent Compute Units (ACUs).

AI builder for websites, web apps and mobile apps by StackBlitz; it builds full-stack apps in the browser on WebContainers. Free plan ($0): 1M tokens per month with a 300K daily limit, public and private projects, unlimited databases, a 10MB file upload limit, and hosting on a bolt.host URL with up to 10 GB of bandwidth and 333,333 web requests a month, with Bolt branding. Pro is $25/month billed monthly ($18/month billed yearly), with no daily token limit and from 10M tokens a month. Teams is $30 per member a month ($27 billed yearly), and Enterprise is custom-priced.

AI app builder (formerly GPT Engineer) — The free plan includes a daily grant of 5 build credits (up to 30 a month), plus monthly grants of 20 Cloud credits. The free plan also grants 4 credits usable by AI features built into user apps, to try the feature before subscribing.The page we cite for Lovable states in words that it is free, which confirms the price — the limits stated here come from our read of the vendor's page on 2026-09-03.

Agentic development platform by Google, generally available: a desktop app to manage multiple local agents in parallel, an agentic IDE, a CLI and an SDK, for macOS, Windows and Linux. Its agents can open and drive a local Chrome browser. The individual plan is $0/month, with Gemini, Claude and gpt-oss agent models, "Unlimited Tab completions", "Unlimited Command requests" and "Basic weekly rate limits". Google AI Pro ($19.99/month) and Google AI Ultra (from $99.99/month) add "More generous rate limits" and a "Flexible AI credit pool", and organizations can use it through Google Cloud. Announced November 2025.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

A free Java Development Environment designed for beginners, used by millions worldwide. Powered by Oracle & simple GUI to help beginners.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Code snippet organizer with labels and support for 100+ programming languages.The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

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, VimThe page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Now published only on the Visual Studio Marketplace — Free for you, forever: We provide 90 days of data history for free, forever. We provide premium plans for advanced features and historical data access.The page we cite for Code Time names a plan but states no amount, so the limits stated here come from our read of the vendor's page on 2026-09-25.

Gemini Code Assist for individuals, Google's free tier of its IDE coding assistant, stopped serving requests on 2026-06-18, according to Google's deprecation notice. Login with Google no longer works in the IDE extensions or in Gemini CLI for the individuals, Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra tiers. Google's product page, codeassist.google, still advertises the tier at no cost with 6,000 code-related requests and 240 chat requests a day. Gemini Code Assist Standard and Enterprise subscriptions are unchanged.

AI coding tool by AWS, with an IDE, a CLI and a web interface. Prompts run by default on Auto, "an agent that uses a mix of different frontier models", and users can pick Claude, GPT or open-weight models. 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.

Community edition is free and open source, self-hosted: unlimited workspaces provisioned on infrastructure you already own, environments defined as code, desktop or web IDEs including VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor and Jupyter, and up to 5 concurrent Coder Agents — the same agent limit the paid Premium plan carries. Premium is billed annually per user and AI Premium is custom; coder.com/pricing states no figure for either. Read 2026-09-19.The page we cite for Coder names a plan but states no amount, so these limits come from our own record rather than from that page.

There is no free tier: formerly Gitpod, and gitpod.io/pricing now 308-redirects to ona.com/pricing, which on a read of 2026-09-19 does not contain the word "free" anywhere. Core starts at $20/month for up to 100 team members with 80 to 2,200 included Ona Compute Units a month; add-on OCUs are $10 per 40 OCUs; Enterprise is custom. Self-hosted cloud development environments and agents.