Huawei-backed open-source terminal AI coding assistant, competing with Claude Code. CodingPlan offers free 30-day access to GLM-5.1, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, Qwen3 series and more, running on Ascend chips with 5-hour rolling window metering.

Open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI. Supports 200+ models including Claude, GPT, Gemini. Launched ClinePass in June 2026 with curated models like GLM 5.1 - no API key needed. Free to use with your own API key. 63K+ GitHub stars.

Microsoft's AI coding assistant, deeply integrated with VS Code and GitHub. Code completion, Chat, and Agent mode. Free for students and OSS maintainers, $10/month for individuals.

Established AI coding assistant supporting 70+ languages with broad IDE plugin coverage. Personal tier is completely free with no usage limits. Enterprise tier adds more features.

Alibaba's AI coding assistant, deeply integrated with VS Code and JetBrains. Uses Qwen models, excellent Chinese coding experience. Free for individuals, enterprise by seat.

AI coding IDE, formerly Codeium. Free plan at $0/month with Light usage. Cascade feature for multi-file editing. Pro at $20/mo.

Huawei CLI coding assistant with built-in Zhipu GLM-5.1 model, ready to use after login with no manual selection needed. Completely free with no usage limits, trained on Huawei Ascend chips, coding capability reaches 94.6% of Claude Opus 4.6. Rich theme options with dark/light mode switching, great looking interface.

Open-source tool: "Your browser is the API." CLI + MCP server for AI agents to control Chrome with your login state. No separate API keys needed — reuses your existing browser sessions. Perfect for developers who need AI to automate web tasks.

AI coding IDE, #1 market share at 31%. Free Hobby plan with no credit card required. Pro at $20/mo supports GPT-4o, Claude and more.

Free AI coding agent that edits code via natural language in terminal. Based on paid Codebuff, ad-supported. Uses DeepSeek V4 Flash by default, supports Kimi K2.6, MiniMax M2.7 and other models.

Vercel's AI UI generator. Describe or screenshot a UI and get React component code. Free plan: $5 monthly credits + 7 messages/day.

Zhipu's AI coding subscription paired with ZCode IDE. Free models available (GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.5-Flash). Paid tiers: Lite ~$10/mo, Pro ~$30/mo, Max ~$80/mo (quarterly billing). Compatible with 20+ coding tools. Subscribers get 1.5x quota in ZCode.

Tencent's AI coding assistant, deeply integrated with Tencent Cloud. Supports code completion, chat, and code review. Free for individuals, enterprise plans available.

Astron Coding Plan by iFlytek is a monthly AI coding subscription service for developers, integrating Spark X2, GLM, Kimi, MiniMax, DeepSeek, Qwen and other popular open-source models. First purchase only ¥3.9/month with unlimited requests.

Google's free AI coding tool. Version 1.5 major upgrade: 60x limit increase, 10x speed boost. Completely free, supports code generation, debugging, refactoring. A free alternative to GitHub Copilot.