Inline completions, chat and coding agents across the major IDEs
Refact.ai alternatives
3 products our research names as a replacement for Refact.ai 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.
Cursor
73Code editor built around coding agents that work in the IDE, the terminal, the cloud and on pull requests
from $8 against $10
Refact.ai vs Cursor →Enterprise code assistant with on-premises and air-gapped deployment, bought by Tricentis in July 2026
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82AI coding agent for terminal, cloud and desktop, backed by its own coding models and air-gapped deployments for regulated teams.
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77Terminal-based coding agent that edits your codebase and runs commands from natural-language requests.
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Zencoder
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