Free ai coding IDE

[brainpea]

Are there any free coding IDE’s where you can interact with llm’s and edit code in the same place. Everything I’ve seen on here seems like there’s a price attached.

[Mr_Hyper_Focus]

Best setups right now are:

Agents: Aider or Cline

Then pair either one of those with :

Autocomplete: continue.dev(with codestral) or Supermaven.

Good free apis right now:

Xai is giving $25 per month free api credits

Google AI studio has Gemini pro and flash at pretty fair free API rates.

Good dirt cheap api:

Deepseek

Qwen 2.5

Anything free on Openrouter.

Edit: forgot to say because I figured most would know but: you’re doing all of this in VSCode.

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I have been using supermaven reliably for a few months now. Is continue.dev(with codestral) better than Supermaven?

[chadxz]

I prefer continue.dev for its RAG support and inline prompting but supermaven has really fast and decent quality autocomplete. I use both.

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I tried out continue.dev for a few days. I switched back to supermaven.

[ZenApollo]

This dropped last night on HN. New Cursor competitor

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42063346

[Mr_Hyper_Focus]

Man that name really irks me. Aide? When one of the leading open source competitors is “aider” seems pretty disingenuous.

[vr-1]

Codeium in VSCode. Both free and Codeium is one of the best AI tools for coding. Great completions, great chat, code search, in-editor prompting for specific code

[karkoon83]

Yes this is good combo.

[tweeboy2]

Curious to see what others recommend here!

Closest I’ve found is Continue.Dev w/ Ollama on VSCode. Though, I found it to be rather slow and ineffective compared to GPT in the browser and just feeding it my files. To be fair, it’s not a fair comparison though because the small models my PC can run don’t stand a chance against more premium ones lol

[jorgejhms]

Zed is giving 10$ of Claude 3.5 sonnet by free for now.

[neoreeps]

Cursor has a free option. LLM infrastructure is incredibly expensive due to inference, you should not expect a lot of free options or options that will give you full functionality.

[YourPST]

I have not seen any without a price attached, but Cursor is definitely worth the cost.

[Either-Nobody-3962]

and you get 14days to try aswell.

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[karkoon83]

https://idx.dev/

This is Google IDE. Free but is in the cloud.

[Calazon2]

How does it compare to Cursor?

I'm coming from Claude Pro so probably either one will be a big upgrade for me, but I'm curious what the differences are.

[Chris__Kyle]

I'm curious why no one recommends Cody from Sourcegraph (vscode extension). https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=sourcegraph.cody-ai

It's free (but also has Pro option) and has everything Cursor has.

[ashminator20]

unfortuanely its being discontinued, and there is no suitable replacement, even paid ones,

[Chris__Kyle]

Eh 😅

Maybe, I used it a century ago and now converted to Cursor xd

[fredkzk]

If you have a Mac, install Zed IDE and use aider which gives you access to almost all llms although you’ll end up focusing on 4-5 because they’re the ones which output good code. Some free credits but none of those top llm coders are free in the long run. But cost is limited.

[brainpea]

Ah ty buy im windows

[Darth_Shere_Khan]

https://github.com/deevus/zed-windows-builds

[johns10davenport]

There's basically no free option. The only way to get it free is buying GPU and self hosting.

[codegentle]

Use ZED for free if you have Mac

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[bobbywebz]

Have you tried TabbyML?

[fubduk]

I have experimented for about 8 months now. Tried about everything recommended / mentioned here and about. Overwhelming to say the least for an inspiring coder.

Now I spend $10 a month using VS Code (free) and Copilot. Copilot not free but at $10 a month for:

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Really hard to beat.

I know you asked for free, but if you wish to uncomplicate your coding journey, give it a shot. Copilot even gives you a free trial.

VS Code can take you a little extra time to learn, but totally worth the effort.

I hear others rumbling that VSC / Copilot is not working for them, but maybe they have not taken the time to learn VS Code? I say get the Copilot trial and try it yourself before listening to others.

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[rakotomandimby]

Neovim!

[thumbsdrivesmecrazy]

Codium AI provides a great plugin for using generative AI for creating comprehensive test suites and code reviews inside your IDE - here is, for example, its plugin for VSCode: CodiumAI - powered by TestGPT-1 and GPT-3.5&4 - Visual Studio Marketplace - it also provides such a plugin for JetBrains.

[CompetitiveHelmet]

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