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Surfaces

The editors and IDEs where agents meet your code, from AI-native platforms and agentic IDEs to the neutral defaults, with the acquisitions and sunsets recorded where they happened.

  • Antigravity - Google’s free multi-agent platform (2.0, IDE, CLI, SDK), generous tier, incident-heavy first year.
  • Continue - the open-source Copilot alternative across VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI, acquired by Cursor in June 2026, now read-only.
  • Cursor - Anysphere’s AI-native editor platform, acquired by SpaceX in August 2026, with OpenAI winding down its model access from November 12.
  • JetBrains IDEs - the analysis-heavy IDEs whose AI layer, AI Assistant plus Junie, is removable and provider-agnostic.
  • Kiro - AWS’s spec-driven agentic IDE, credits-metered, from a 50-credit free tier to $200/month.
  • OpenChamber - the MIT open-source session cockpit around OpenCode, worktrees and multi-model fusion included.
  • Roo Code - the Cline-fork VS Code extension that sunset itself in May 2026 to chase cloud agents.
  • Trae - ByteDance’s AI IDE, repriced in September 2026 to a $20/$60/$200 ladder, SOLO mode and cloud tasks included, telemetry questions attached.
  • Void - the Apache-2.0 open-source Cursor alternative, demand proven, releases stalled since April 2025.
  • VS Code + Copilot - the neutral default, hosting Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex as swappable harnesses.
  • Windsurf - the agentic IDE rescued by Cognition in 2025, fully absorbed into Devin Desktop, down to a redirect and Devin-hosted docs.
  • Zed - the Rust performance editor where AI is optional and BYOK is unlimited.

Its members are compared on shared rows in the Surface Feature Matrix.

Changes
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  • 2026-08-23 - Added Cursor.
  • 2026-08-23 - Added JetBrains IDEs.
  • 2026-08-23 - Added VS Code + Copilot.
  • 2026-08-23 - Added Windsurf.
  • 2026-08-23 - Added Zed.
  • 2026-08-24 - Added Antigravity.
  • 2026-08-24 - Added Kiro.
  • 2026-08-24 - Added OpenChamber.
  • 2026-08-24 - Added Trae.
  • 2026-08-24 - Added Void.
  • 2026-08-26 - Added Continue.
  • 2026-08-26 - Added Roo Code.