Autonomous software engineer working in a cloud VM
Ara alternatives
3 products our research names as a replacement for Ara in AI Coding Assistants, each with what it does differently — prices, API and status from our own checks rather than from the vendors’ own pages.
has a public API
Cursor
66AI-first code editor whose agents edit multi-file projects, run in the cloud and review pull requests
Inline completions, chat and coding agents across the major IDEs
from $10 against $20
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Not named as direct replacements — the neighbours in the same part of the catalog, best-rated first.
Describe an animation in words and get CSS or Tailwind keyframes back, with a live preview
Free browser tool that translates a snippet between languages or writes one from a description
AMP
69Sourcegraph's coding agent: pay-as-you-go or subscription access to an autonomous code-editing agent.
Agen
77Cloud coding agents that clone your repo, run the pipeline, fix failures, and open a merge-ready pull request.
Aider
59Open-source pair programming agent in the terminal
AWS coding assistant for IDEs, CLI and console
AskCodi
75Multi-model AI chat and code generation with IDE plugins
Free web converter between plain English and regular expressions, in both directions
Terminal agent that edits code and runs commands
Pastes source code and converts it into another programming language, from Python and JavaScript to Java, C++, Go, and Rust.
Paste code in one language, get it back in another across roughly thirty languages, with saved history
CodeGeeX
82Free coding assistant plugin from Zhipu AI for VS Code and JetBrains, with completion, chat and unit-test generation
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