Compare the Top IDE Software as of December 2025

What is IDE Software?

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) are software programs which provide an integrated environment for a programmer to develop their code. The IDEs usually provide tools such as a text editor, compiler, and debugger. They are designed to increase productivity by allowing programmers to work on multiple components of their project in the same environment. IDEs also typically offer features such as syntax highlighting, suggestions for identifiers, and auto-completion that aid in coding accuracy. Compare and read user reviews of the best IDE software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Visual Studio Code
    Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is Microsoft’s open-source AI code editor designed to make coding faster, smarter, and more collaborative. It supports thousands of extensions and nearly every programming language, offering developers a lightweight yet powerful environment for writing, testing, and debugging code. With AI-powered features like GitHub Copilot, Next Edit Suggestions, and Agent Mode, VS Code helps you code with precision, automate complex tasks, and streamline development workflows. It integrates seamlessly with cloud services, remote repositories, and tools like Git, Docker, and Azure. The editor is fully customizable, allowing you to personalize your layout, color themes, and keyboard shortcuts. Whether coding locally or in the browser, VS Code delivers a complete development experience for individuals and teams alike.
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    Starting Price: Free
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    CodeSandbox

    CodeSandbox

    CodeSandbox

    CodeSandbox is a cloud development platform that empowers development teams to code, collaborate, and ship projects of any size from any device in record time. Run your code in powerful microVMs and build anything without limits. We configure your environment for you and keep your code always ready, behind a URL. Boxy, the CodeSandbox AI coding assistant, is also now available to all Pro subscribers.
    Starting Price: $12 per month
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    JetBrains Datalore
    Datalore is a collaborative data science and analytics platform aimed at boosting the whole analytics workflow and making work with data enjoyable for both data scientists and data savvy business teams across the enterprise. Keeping a major focus on data teams workflow, Datalore offers technical-savvy business users the ability to work together with data teams, using no-code or low-code together with the power of Jupyter notebooks. Datalore enables analytical self-service for business users, enabling them to work with data using SQL and no-code cells, build reports and deep dive into data. It offloads the core data team with simple tasks. Datalore enables analysts and data scientists to share results with ML Engineers. You can run your code on powerful CPUs or GPUs and collaborate with your colleagues in real-time.
    Starting Price: $19.90 per month
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    Superblocks

    Superblocks

    Superblocks

    Superblocks is a programmable IDE for developers to build any internal app, workflow, or scheduled job at a fraction of the time and cost. Ship next month's roadmap this week. Quickly build apps, workflows & jobs connected to your data. Secure with granular permissions (RBAC), SSO, audit logs, and secret management in seconds. Deploy with Git and monitor production. Extend anything with code. No need to learn React, HTML, or CSS. Drag and drop components, connect them to data and make your app dynamic by triggering APIs. Build custom KYC, Compliance, AML, and credit approval tools to enable robust support processes to increase the velocity of your support team. Stop wrestling with CLIs. Quickly build admin panels for your datastores to read, write, and update your customer data with tables, forms, and charts. Clark is an AI-powered app builder that helps teams quickly create secure internal enterprise applications using their own design systems, permissions, and integrations.
    Starting Price: $0 per month
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    Promptmetheus

    Promptmetheus

    Promptmetheus

    Compose, test, optimize, and deploy reliable prompts for the leading language models and AI platforms to supercharge your apps and workflows. Promptmetheus is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for LLM prompts, designed to help you automate workflows and augment products and services with the mighty capabilities of GPT and other cutting-edge AI models. With the advent of the transformer architecture, cutting-edge Language Models have reached parity with human capability in certain narrow cognitive tasks. But, to viably leverage their power, we have to ask the right questions. Promptmetheus provides a complete prompt engineering toolkit and adds composability, traceability, and analytics to the prompt design process to assist you in discovering those questions.
    Starting Price: $29 per month
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    Athina AI

    Athina AI

    Athina AI

    Athina is a collaborative AI development platform that enables teams to build, test, and monitor AI applications efficiently. It offers features such as prompt management, evaluation tools, dataset handling, and observability, all designed to streamline the development of reliable AI systems. Athina supports integration with various models and services, including custom models, and ensures data privacy through fine-grained access controls and self-hosted deployment options. The platform is SOC-2 Type 2 compliant, providing a secure environment for AI development. Athina's user-friendly interface allows both technical and non-technical team members to collaborate effectively, accelerating the deployment of AI features.
    Starting Price: Free
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    JetBrains Aqua
    Aqua is the first IDE created specifically for test automation. It‘s an all-in-one workspace that supports Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright. Aqua is a polyglot IDE that understands Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin, and SQL. Get straight to testing without having to install and configure lots of plugins. Aqua boasts a unique feature set containing everything a test automation engineer needs on a daily basis. Aqua’s Web Inspector works like a built-in browser and allows you to capture any page element without switching to another tool. There is also the HTTP client for API testing and integration with databases, Docker, and version control. Aqua minimizes the hassle for even the most challenging tasks. The combination of intelligent code analysis, powerful search and refactoring capabilities, and overall ease of use enables you to boost your quality engineering productivity.
    Starting Price: $249 per year
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    SWE-Kit

    SWE-Kit

    Composio

    SweKit let’s you build PR agents to review code, suggest improvements, enforce coding standards, identify potential issues, automate merge approvals, and provide feedback on best practices, streamlining the review process and enhancing code quality. Automate writing new features, debug complex issues, create and run tests, optimize code for performance, refactor for maintainability, and ensure best practices across the codebase, accelerating development and efficiency. Use highly optimized code analysis, advanced code indexing, and intelligent file navigation tools to explore and interact with large codebases effortlessly. Ask questions, trace dependencies, uncover logic flows, and gain instant insights, enabling seamless communication with complex code structures. Keep your documentation in sync with your code. Automatically update Mintlify documentation whenever changes are made to the codebase, ensuring that your docs stay accurate, up-to-date, and ready for your team and users.
    Starting Price: $49 per month
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    Kiro

    Kiro

    Amazon Web Services

    Kiro is an AI‑powered integrated development environment that brings structure to AI‑driven coding by converting natural‑language prompts into clear requirements, system designs, and discrete implementation tasks validated by robust tests. Built from the ground up for agentic workflows, it features spec‑driven development, multimodal chat, “agent hooks” that trigger background tasks on events like file saves, and an autopilot mode that autonomously runs large scripts while keeping you in control. With smart context management, Kiro reduces repetitive prompts and helps implement complex features across large codebases. Native MCP integrations let you connect to documentation, databases, and APIs, and you can guide development with images of UI designs or architecture diagrams. Enterprise‑grade security and privacy ensure safe deployment, while support for Claude Sonnet models, Open VSX plugins, and existing VS Code settings delivers a familiar yet AI‑supercharged experience.
    Starting Price: $19 per month
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    Eclipse Theia

    Eclipse Theia

    Eclipse Foundation

    Eclipse Theia is an extensible platform to develop multi-language Cloud & Desktop IDEs with state-of-the-art web technologies. Not sure whether you need a web or desktop version or both? With Theia you can develop one IDE and run it in browsers or native desktop application from a single source. The Theia project is hosted at the Eclipse Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation, and is developed by a diverse community. Unlike other "open-source" projects, projects hosted at an Open-Source Foundation are protected against single-vendor decisions against the interest of the diverse community. Theia is designed in a modular way to allow extenders and adopters customizing and extending every aspect of it. Composing a custom IDE-like product is as easy as listing all needed extensions in a package.json file. Adding new functionality by implementing your own extensions is easy, too and provides all the flexibility you need.
    Starting Price: $0
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    Cerbrec Graphbook
    Construct your model directly as a live, interactive graph. Preview data flowing through your visualized model architecture. View and edit your visualized model architecture down to the atomic level. Graphbook provides X-ray transparency with no black boxes. Graphbook live checks data type and shape with understandable error messages, making your model debugging quick and easy. Abstracting out software dependencies and environment configuration, Graphbook allows you to focus on model architecture and data flow with the handy computing resources needed. Cerbrec Graphbook is a visual IDE for AI modeling, transforming cumbersome model development into a user-friendly experience. With a growing community of machine learning engineers and data scientists, Graphbook helps developers work with their text and tabular data to fine-tune language models such as BERT and GPT. Everything is fully managed out of the box so you can preview your model exactly as it will behave.
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