# Alternatives to Cursor > Source: https://theagentsindex.com/cursor/alternatives (current datasheets, evidence-ranked) Candidates share the baseline category or are previously researched peers. Requirements, preserved strengths, explicit trade-offs and research coverage decide the order; paid tier does not. ## Shortlist ### 1. Junie JetBrains coding agent for the terminal, JetBrains IDEs and CI, running on hosted or your own model keys. **Research coverage:** 35/35 criteria **Where it improves on Cursor:** - [Open models: yes — Open-weight models run two ways: through Ollama or LM Studio on any plan, or via the vendor's own Apple Silicon inference engine that ships a quantised Qwen model to your machine.](https://www.jetbrains.com/ai-ides/buy/) **Trade-offs against Cursor:** - [In a browser: partial — The web app is a companion view onto a CLI session still running on your own machine, not a standalone hosted agent, and the vendor lists a dozen features it cannot do.](https://junie.jetbrains.com/docs/junie-cli-remote-mode.html) [View Junie](https://theagentsindex.com/junie) ### 2. Warp Agentic development environment: a terminal, a standalone agent CLI, and unattended cloud coding agents. **Research coverage:** 35/35 criteria **Where it improves on Cursor:** - [Open models: yes — Open-weight models are hosted for you through Fireworks AI, and an Auto (Open-weights) router picks between them; Llama is absent from that enumerated table.](https://docs.warp.dev/agents/inference/model-choice/) - [Open source: partial — The client is AGPL v3 and auditable. Nothing Warp says makes the same claim for the Automation Platform, cloud agents or Factories, and no licence is named for them.](https://docs.warp.dev/agents/) - [Data residency: yes — United States only, on Google Cloud. No EU or other region is offered anywhere on the site; Enterprise BYOLLM is the one lever that moves inference into your own cloud account.](https://www.warp.dev/legal/security) **Trade-offs against Cursor:** - [In your editor: no — There is no first-party IDE or editor extension; Warp ships its own editor and diff review and positions itself as the thing that replaces the external IDE. It can only launch your editor.](https://docs.warp.dev/code/overview/) - [Free tier: partial — The Free plan is a self-serve download with no call, but it bundles no agent usage: you must buy add-on credits or bring your own inference before the agent will run on Warp models.](https://docs.warp.dev/support-and-community/plans-and-billing/credits/) [View Warp](https://theagentsindex.com/warp) ### 3. Factory Droid coding agents that run in the desktop app, CLI, IDEs, CI and Factory-managed cloud computers. **Research coverage:** 35/35 criteria **Where it improves on Cursor:** - [Open models: yes — Droid Core is an open-weight model pool with its own rate limits, switchable free when standard usage runs out.](https://factory.com/pricing) - [Open source: partial — The CI action is a public repository; the Droid agent itself ships as binaries, with no source offered.](https://docs.factory.ai/software-factory/code-review-ci) **Trade-offs against Cursor:** - [Free tier: no — The published plan list starts at Pro $20/mo; no free tier or trial is offered, though Droid Core and a BYOK allowance are free within a paid plan.](https://docs.factory.ai/pricing/individuals) - [Opt out of training: partial — Zero Data Retention is a Business and Enterprise plan feature; Factory says it routes traffic directly to providers and stores no prompts, and never indexes your repository.](https://docs.factory.ai/enterprise/privacy-and-data-flows) [View Factory](https://theagentsindex.com/factory-ai) ### 4. Cline Open-source coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, the terminal and CI, running on whichever model you bring. **Research coverage:** 34/35 criteria **Where it improves on Cursor:** - [Open models: yes — Open-weight models are a first-class path: a curated set ships inside the ClinePass subscription, and Ollama, LM Studio or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint runs weights you host.](https://cline.bot/cline-pass) - [Self-hosted: yes — The client executes on your own machine by default, and Enterprise is documented for VPC, on-premises and air-gapped deployment with inference going straight to your providers.](https://cline.bot/enterprise) - [Open source: yes — The agent client and its SDK harness are published under the Apache 2.0 licence, and the paid layers are model access and organisation governance rather than the code.](https://cline.bot/) **Trade-offs against Cursor:** - [In a browser: partial — The browser UI is Kanban, a board you start yourself on localhost and label a research preview; the vendor's hosted web app is the account and admin console, not a place to run tasks.](https://docs.cline.bot/usage/kanban) - [Seat model: partial — Seats are counted against an organisation licence - every owner, admin, member and even a pending invite holds one - but no seat price, floor or ceiling is published, and Enterprise claims unlimited seats.](https://docs.cline.bot/enterprise-solutions/team-management/managing-members) - [Opt out of training: partial — Cline states it never trains on your code, and BYOK keeps requests out of its infrastructure entirely, but its privacy notice puts training on whichever model provider you choose and their opt-out.](https://cline.bot/faq) [View Cline](https://theagentsindex.com/cline) ### 5. Devin Cloud AI software engineer that takes a ticket, works in its own VM, and opens a pull request. **Research coverage:** 35/35 criteria **Where it improves on Cursor:** - [Open models: yes — Open-weight models including DeepSeek, Kimi and GLM are selectable in Devin CLI.](https://docs.devin.ai/cli/models) - [Open source: partial — Only the Outposts Kubernetes orchestration operator is published as open source; no source distribution is documented for Devin itself.](https://docs.devin.ai/cloud/outposts/overview) - [MCP server: yes — An authenticated MCP server at mcp.devin.ai lets any MCP client create sessions, query repositories and manage playbooks.](https://docs.devin.ai/work-with-devin/devin-mcp) **Trade-offs against Cursor:** - [Model choice: partial — You pick the model in Devin CLI, or leave it to the Adaptive router; cloud Devin sessions document no model selector.](https://docs.devin.ai/cli/models) - [Bring your own key: partial — Your own AWS KMS key encrypts data at rest, but only on the Enterprise Assured deployment; no bring-your-own-inference is documented.](https://docs.devin.ai/enterprise/security-access/security/customer-managed-keys) - [Opt out of training: partial — Training is on by default and the opt-out is paid-plans-only; opting out also enables Zero Data Retention with the model providers.](https://docs.devin.ai/admin/security) [View Devin](https://theagentsindex.com/devin) ### 6. Augment Code Cosmos platform running fleets of coding agents across the SDLC, plus Auggie CLI and IDE extensions. **Research coverage:** 35/35 criteria **Where it improves on Cursor:** - [Open source: partial — Context Connectors is an open-source library on the Context Engine SDK; the agent platform itself is proprietary.](https://docs.augmentcode.com/context-services/context-connectors/overview) - [MCP server: yes — Context Engine is exposed to other agents over MCP (local stdio or hosted HTTP), and MCP tools are on both plans.](https://docs.augmentcode.com/context-services/mcp/overview) - [Pooled budget: yes — Included usage and top-ups draw from one shared team balance; Enterprise adds per-user budget overrides.](https://www.augmentcode.com/pricing) **Trade-offs against Cursor:** - [Free tier: partial — No free plan is published; pricing lists only Business at $100/month and Enterprise. Business is self-serve, though, and trials are referenced.](https://www.augmentcode.com/pricing) - [API access: partial — Auggie TypeScript/Python SDKs drive the agent from your own code; the Analytics API is Enterprise-only preview.](https://docs.augmentcode.com/cli/sdk) - [Bring your own key: partial — You can supply your own machines or cloud for execution, but all inference is billed through Augment; no bring-your-own model key is documented.](https://docs.augmentcode.com/cosmos/environments/daemons) [View Augment Code](https://theagentsindex.com/augment-code) ## Method Unknown data is never treated as a benefit or a trade-off. Featured placement is labelled but cannot alter recommendation order.