Best GitHub Copilot Alternatives in 2026

1. Llama Coder

Free

Best for: Developers and non-coders who want to prototype small web apps from a text description and then inspect or reuse the generated code.

Pricing: Llama Coder is an app builder from Together AI. The site shows no prices. Check the official pricing page for current prices.

• Turns a plain-text app idea into a working app with generated code
• Model selector offering open models such as Llama 3.1 405B and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
• Attach option next to the prompt box for adding extra context

2. Codeium

Freemium

Best for: Software developers and engineering teams who want AI code completion in their editor plus one place to run, monitor and review coding agents.

Pricing: Codeium is now part of Devin, which has a Free plan with limited usage; Pro is $20 per month, Max $200 per month and Teams $80 per month, and Enterprise is custom pricing.

• Full IDE with syntax highlighting, autocomplete and built-in debugging tools
• Supercomplete code suggestions that predict your next change as you type
• Fast Context finds the exact files and lines an agent needs in milliseconds

3. Screenshot to Code

Free

Best for: Front-end developers and designers who want a quick first-pass codebase from a screenshot or mockup.

Pricing: Screenshot to Code is open source under the MIT licence and can be run locally using your own API keys for model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Replicate). A hosted app is also available at screenshottocode.com. Check the official pricing page for current prices.

• Converts screenshots, mockups, Figma designs and screen recordings into code
• Outputs HTML with Tailwind or CSS, React, Vue, Bootstrap and Ionic
• Works with Gemini, GPT and Claude models using your own API keys

4. ZCode

Paid

Best for: Developers who want AI agents built into their development workflow.

Pricing: ZCode's site lists the GLM Coding Plan at Lite $12.6 per month (10,000 credits per week), Pro $56 per month (6 times Lite usage) and Max $117.6 per month (14 times Lite usage). No free plan or trial is listed.

• AI coding tool optimised for GLM-5.2
• Helps you code, review, debug and deploy
• AI agents with task planning and multi-agent collaboration

5. Programming Helper

Free Trial

Best for: Developers and students who want a quick first draft of code or SQL from a plain-English description before reviewing it themselves.

Pricing: Check the official pricing page for current prices.

• Generates code from a plain-text description of what you want
• Chat assistant for answering programming questions
• Public feed of community-generated examples in Python, Java, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript and SQL

6. CodeGeeX

Free

Best for: Developers who want inline code completion, language-to-language code translation and auto-written comments while they write code.

Pricing: Check the official pricing page for current prices.

• Suggests code for the current line and the lines that follow
• Generates code automatically, with a model pretrained on more than 20 programming languages
• Translates code from one programming language to another

7. Replit

Freemium

Best for: Solo builders, students and small teams who want to go from an idea to a running app without writing everything by hand.

Pricing: Core costs $20 per month, or $18 per month billed annually. Pro costs $100 per month, or $90 per month billed annually. Enterprise pricing is custom, and you can start free.

• Replit Agent builds projects from a plain-language description
• Plan mode is included in the Core plan
• Pro plan includes 10 parallel agents

8. Amazon CodeWhisperer

Freemium

Best for: Developers working in AWS-heavy projects who want in-IDE code suggestions, security scanning and help with architecture and cost questions.

Pricing: The Amazon Q Developer Free Tier includes 50 agentic requests per month and 1,000 lines of code per month for Java upgrades. The Pro tier is $19 per user per month.

• Real-time code suggestions from snippets up to full functions, plus inline chat
• Works in JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio, VS Code and the command line
• Scans code for vulnerabilities and suggests fixes

9. Refraction

Freemium

Best for: Developers who want to paste a block of code and quickly get refactors, tests, documentation or conversions in their language.

Pricing: Hobby is free and includes 10 code generations. Pro costs $8 per month and Team costs $14 per user per month. On yearly billing Pro is $80 per year and Team is $140 per user per year. Enterprise is contact for pricing.

• Generates code in 56 languages, including ABAP, Ada, Python, Rust, TypeScript and YAML
• Refactors code, generates unit tests and adds documentation
• Detects bugs, explains code and converts code between languages

10. Cosine

Paid

Best for: Engineering teams in regulated or security-sensitive organisations who need coding agents with private or air-gapped deployment options.

Pricing: Starter is from $19 per month with 4M credits, Team is $199 per month with 47M credits and Enterprise is $999 per month with 240M credits. Add-on credits can be bought at any time, and the site says enterprise and private deployment pricing is scoped with sales.

• Lumen Scout model, post-trained from Devstral 123B, maps and indexes codebases
• Lumen Outpost model, post-trained from Kimi K2.6, handles everyday production software tasks
• CLI with local-to-remote execution, MCP tool access and multi-agent orchestration, installed via Homebrew