8 free AI coding assistants for Windows. Half of the paid plans start at $10 a month or less. 2 are open source. Newest check: 12 Nov 2026.
268 of 721 tools were checked against the vendor's own page in the last 30 days.
| Tool | Price from | Free plan | Runs on | Rating | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DevinDevin is Cognition's autonomous AI software engineer that plans, codes, tests, and ships pull requests, with a Free plan and several paid tiers. | $20/mo | Yes | Web · Mac · Windows | 4.6 | 2 Nov |
| CursorCursor is an AI code editor built on VS Code, widely adopted across large enterprise engineering teams, with Agent Mode, Tab completion, and Cloud Agents. | $8/mo | Yes | Web · iOS · Mac · Windows | 4.4 | 16 Oct |
| GitHub CopilotGitHub's AI coding assistant with agent mode, Copilot Fusion model routing and MCP support across 6 IDEs, plus a free plan with no credit card required. | $10/mo | Yes | Web · iOS · Android · Mac · Windows | 4.2 | 6 Nov |
| AtuinOpen-source shell history with encrypted sync across machines, plus Threads to search and resume coding-agent sessions (32.3k GitHub stars). | Free | Yes | Mac · Windows | 4.0 | 12 Nov |
| WindsurfWindsurf, now Devin Desktop from Cognition, is a VS Code-based editor with local and cloud agents, free with unlimited Tab and Pro at $20 a month. | $20/mo | Yes | Mac · Windows | 4.0 | 29 Sep |
| AiderFree, open-source terminal pair programmer that edits your git repo and commits each change; bring your own LLM key. 49,000+ GitHub stars. | Free | Yes | Mac · Windows | -- | 3 Oct |
| CodeRabbitAI reviewer for pull requests on four Git hosts and in three IDEs, free for public repositories and billed per developer for private ones. | $24/mo | Yes | Web · Mac · Windows | -- | 11 Oct |
| TraeFree AI IDE by ByteDance with SOLO autonomous agent and 4 plans from $3/month; supports Claude 3.7 Sonnet, GPT-4.1, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and DeepSeek on macOS, Windows, Web, and iOS. | $3/mo | Yes | Web · iOS · Mac · Windows | -- | 19 Aug |
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