Cursor
The editor most people mean by vibe coding: you describe the change, it edits the repo, and you review the diff.
Free hobby tier and paid editor plans.
Vibe coding
Editors and generators for people who describe the change and then read the diff.
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Claude
The best default for long documents and careful agent-style work. Easier to steer than most chats, and less of a do-everything platform than ChatGPT.
Free tier and paid Pro, team, and enterprise plans.
GitHub Copilot
The lowest-friction assistant if you already live in VS Code, Visual Studio, or a JetBrains IDE and on GitHub. Strong inline completions; the agent mode follows Cursor rather than leading it.
Free tier and paid individual and business plans.
OpenUI
Lets an agent answer with a real interface, built from your own components, instead of a wall of text.
Free and open source under the MIT licence.
v0
The fastest way to get a React and Tailwind interface from a prompt, tied to the Vercel stack. A weak choice for backend logic or a design system it has not seen.
Free tier and paid credits.
Windsurf
An agentic IDE in the same class as Cursor. Try it when you want a second opinion on the editor workflow, on a real repository.
Free tier and paid plans. The quota model has changed before.