Open-source alternatives to GitHub Copilot
12 open-source projects that do what GitHub Copilot does. Picked or featured by Willet; numbers are from GitHub.
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| Project | What it does | Stars | License | Last commit | Self-hostable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal-based AI coding agent with plan and build modes | 219k | MIT | No | ||
| OpenAI's terminal coding agent that edits and runs code on your machine | 130k | Apache-2.0 | No | ||
| Open-source coding agent for VS Code, the terminal, and desktop | 71k | Apache-2.0 | No | ||
| AI code review CLI pairing fixed pipelines with an LLM agent | 47.7k | Apache-2.0 | No | ||
| AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, and the terminal | 36.3k | Apache-2.0 | No | ||
| Terminal coding agent that works with Qwen, OpenAI, Anthropic, or local models | 28.6k | Apache-2.0 | No | ||
| Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, and the terminal | 27.7k | MIT | No | ||
| Ad-supported AI coding agent for terminal, desktop, web, and GitHub | 13.6k | Apache-2.0 | No | ||
| Asynchronous cloud coding agent that turns issues into pull requests | 11k | MIT | Yes | ||
| GitHub Action that runs Claude Code on pull requests and issues | 9.6k | MIT | No | ||
| Forkable reference app for running background coding agents in the cloud | 5.9k | MIT | Yes | ||
| Self-hosted background coding agent that works in cloud sandboxes | 3.4k | MIT | Yes |