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The AI coding tools shipping more than Cursor

Cursor isn't the only game. These six AI coding tools are quietly shipping more code per developer per day.

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Cursor gets the press. But every week there's another AI coding tool quietly winning the actually-ship-something race — Aider in your terminal, Cline inside VS Code, Continue if you refuse to leave Jetbrains. We compared what each one wins at, instead of pretending they're interchangeable.
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    Cursor

    🤖 Automate

    Cursor focuses on Coding agent → Dev & IT → Automate workflows.

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    aider

    🤖 Automate

    aider focuses on Coding agent → Dev & IT → Automate workflows.

  3. 3

    Cline CLI 2.0

    🤖 AI Tools

    Open-source AI coding agent with Plan/Act modes, MCP integration, and terminal-first workflows. Trusted by 5M+ developers worldwide.

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    Continue (OSS)

    ✨ Create

    Continue (OSS) focuses on IDE copilot → Code → Create workflows.

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    Windsurf

    🤖 AI Tools

    A next-generation AI IDE and coding assistant designed to keep developers in flow with AI-powered assistance.

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    Claude Code

    🤖 AI Tools

    Claude Code is an agentic coding system by Anthropic that reads codebases, makes changes across files, runs tests, and delivers committed code.

  7. 7

    Tabnine

    🤖 Automate

    Tabnine focuses on Coding agent → Dev & IT → Automate workflows.

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    GitHub Copilot

    💻 Code

    AI pair programmer that helps you write code faster