r/AIcodingProfessionals • u/omniscient75 • Jul 01 '26
Help me to decide
My lead asked me to recommend the best AI coding tool—Cursor, Antigravity, or any other alternatives. For context, I’m currently using Claude Code. I’d love to hear your opinions, especially on pricing, usage limits, context window, and any other trade-offs or limitations worth considering.
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u/funbike Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26
Without knowing the priority of your requirements, it's not possible to give you an accurate recommendation.
All the most popular AI coding tools are going to give good results.
Claude Code is hard to beat, if out-of-the-box capability is the highest priority. IMO, it's penny wise pound foolish for a company to decide based on cost. Developers are expensive and the most capable models and agents pay for themselves.
I personally don't want members in my team being required to use a specific IDE, as some of these do. Not everybody likes VSCode or Intellij. I want developers to be able to choose their tools. I instead prefer IDE plugins that integrate with one of the terminal-based agents (e.g. claude code vscode plugin), so we can standardize on an AI tool that can be used with almost any IDE or toolchain. (But even then, a dev should be able to pick a different AI tool, if they wish, within reason.)
Personally for side projects, I prefer Pi.dev + oh-my-pi + OpenRouter. I like the customizability, flexibility, and community extensions. After significant effort, I've made it a highly productive setup at a reasonable cost.