Best Free JetBrains AI Assistant Alternatives

28 alternatives to JetBrains AI Assistant with a free plan or free tier, ranked by how closely they match. The percentage is a match score, not a popularity score.

Replacing: JetBrains AI Assistant — JetBrains AI Assistant brings AI chat, coding agents and code completion directly into JetInput: text, code · Output: code
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Your AI pair programmer that actually knows the codebase
Input: text, code · Output: code
Free planFrom $4/mo
AI Coding Assistant
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Code completion faster than typing
Input: code · Output: code
Free planFrom $10/mo
AI Coding Assistant
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Windsurf, which now appears on the web as Devin Desktop, is a desktop code editor that doubles as a control room for coding agents.
Input: text, code · Output: code
Free planFrom $20/moAPITeams
AI Coding Assistant
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AI pair programming in your terminal
Input: text, images, audio, code, web pages · Output: code
Free plan
AI Coding Assistant
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Verdent AI operates as a multi-agent coding system where several AI assistants work in parallel rather than sequentially
Input: text, code · Output: code, apps
Free planFrom $5/mo
AI Coding Assistant

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At a glance: top JetBrains AI Assistant alternatives

ToolMatchInputOutputPricingFree planRatingCategory
GitHub Copilot 89% text, code code From $4/mo Yes — AI Coding Assistant
Supermaven 91% code code From $10/mo Yes — AI Coding Assistant
Windsurf 91% text, code code From $20/mo Yes — AI Coding Assistant
Aider 89% text, images, audio, code, web pages code Free Yes — AI Coding Assistant
Verdent AI 88% text, code code, apps From $5/mo Yes — AI Coding Assistant
Cursor 87% text, code code From $20/mo Yes — AI Coding Assistant

Frequently asked

What is the best free JetBrains AI Assistant alternative?
GitHub Copilot (89% match) is the closest free alternative to JetBrains AI Assistant: Your AI pair programmer that actually knows the codebase. Supermaven (91% match) and Windsurf (91% match) come next.
How is the match percentage calculated?
It measures how much of JetBrains AI Assistant's job a tool can take over: shared core category, how many of the same use cases it covers and how similar its feature set is. Popularity and ratings never change the percentage; they only break ties in the order. Lists are recomputed nightly and reviewed by editors for the most-visited tools.

How this list is ranked

The match score measures how much of JetBrains AI Assistant's job each tool can take over: shared core category, how many of the same use cases it covers, and how similar its feature set is. Popularity and ratings do not change the score; they only break ties in the order.

Lists are recomputed nightly from the live catalog and reviewed by our editors for the most-visited tools. Sponsored placements are marked and sit outside the ranking.