Best Grok Build alternatives

Anthropic's agentic coding tool, running in the terminal, IDE, desktop app, and browser, reading your codebase and editing files with explicit approval.

AI-first code editor forked from VS Code, with Tab autocomplete, multi-file Agent mode, Composer, and background agents running on Claude, GPT, or Gemini.

OpenAI's cloud-based autonomous coding agent, powered by the GPT-5 family, reading a codebase and opening pull requests from written instructions.

Open-source, git-aware AI pair programmer that runs in your terminal. Same project as "Aider Chat" elsewhere in this directory, now maintained at Aider-AI/aider.

Open-source terminal coding agent with a TUI that works with any model provider, including local models, and supports LSP, MCP and custom agents.

Sourcegraph's agentic coding tool for the terminal and VS Code, with sub-agents, thread sharing and pay-as-you-go usage.

Open-source AI agent from Block, runnable as a desktop app or CLI, connecting to external systems via MCP and now governed by the Agentic AI Foundation.

Charm's terminal AI coding agent with a polished TUI, multi-provider model support, LSP integration and MCP extensibility.

Open-source command-line coding agent from the Qwen team, adapted from Gemini CLI and tuned for the Qwen3-Coder models.

Google's open-source terminal coding agent built on Gemini models with a 1M-token context window. Shut down for free consumer accounts June 18, 2026.