Codeium vs Cursor vs GitHub Copilot vs JetBrains AI Assistant
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Codeium
Free autocomplete veteran, now Devin Desktop under Cognition
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Cursor
AI-first VS Code fork — agentic, codebase-aware editing
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GitHub Copilot
The most widely adopted AI pair programmer, native to GitHub
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.5 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Unlimited completions and chat for individual developers | Hobby plan — standing free tier (not just a trial), 2,000 completions / 50 slow premium requests per month, no card required | Free plan open to all GitHub users (not just students/OSS maintainers) | AI Free: 3 credits/month + unlimited local completions (Ollama/LM Studio) |
| Paid from | $12/user/month (Teams) | $20/month (Pro); Pro+ $60/month; Ultra $200/month; Teams $40/user/month | Pro $10/mo, Pro+ $39/mo, Max $100/mo, Business $19/user/mo, Enterprise $39/user/mo | AI Pro $10/mo (10 credits); AI Ultimate $30/mo (35 credits); free AI Free tier |
| Has API | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Users | 500k+ developers | 1m+ developers | 4.7m+ paid subscribers | Built into JetBrains IDEs (12.5M+ users); AI is opt-in via free/paid tiers |
| Founded | 2021 | 2022 | 2021 | 2000 |
| Maker | Varun Mohan, Douglas Chen | Anysphere | Microsoft | JetBrains |
| Verdict | The product formerly known as Codeium now lives two rebrands away: Windsurf, then Devin Desktop under Cognition since June 2026. The free plugin line survives — unlimited tab completions and chat across VS Code, JetBrain... |
Cursor is the most polished AI-first code editor going — a VS Code fork that bakes model-aware autocomplete, multi-file agent edits and chat-with-your-codebase into the core editing loop. Tab completion and Composer are... |
For teams already on GitHub, Copilot remains the lowest-friction AI coding assistant: inline completions, chat, multi-file edits and an agent mode, native in VS Code, JetBrains and GitHub itself, with a choice of GPT, Cl... |
JetBrains AI Assistant is the strongest AI option for developers who already live in a JetBrains IDE — its access to the type system, refactoring engine, and test runner gives it context plugins can't match. Junie, the b... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.