Claude Code

Looking for a tool like Claude Code (Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal)? Below are 15 AI tools people use as an alternative to Claude Code, ranked by leaderboard position. Each one is approved by our editors and worth comparing before you decide.

Warp

AI-native terminal with block-based commands and error explanations

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GitHub Copilot Workspace

GitHub's AI dev environment for planning and shipping issues

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Windsurf

Codeium's agentic AI editor, now retired into Devin Desktop

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Amazon Q Developer

AWS's AI coding assistant, deeply AWS-aware

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Cline

Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code

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