---
title: "The Best Alternatives to GitHub Copilot in 2023"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-best-alternatives-to-github-copilot-in-2023-8oss5gtza
source_url: https://blog.joberty.de/best-alternatives-to-github-copilot/
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2023-05-30T10:39:45.125Z
updated: 2026-03-15T03:56:43.747Z
tags: ["devtools", "github", "microsoft", "python", "tools", "visual-studio"]
reading_time: 16
upvotes: 132
comments: 22
language: en
---

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# The Best Alternatives to GitHub Copilot in 2023

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 16 min read · 132 upvotes · 22 comments

## Summary

GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered tool created by GitHub that helps developers write code faster and more efficiently. It uses machine learning to provide autocomplete-style suggestions and even complete code snippets to the developer as they work in their text editor. It can also suggest improvements to existing code and help with tasks like debugging and refactoring.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@bethropolis** · 36 upvotes

> ok, now here are some actual free alternatives
>
> * Codeium: Fully free, fast, great latency .
> * Codium:  free, for writing tests
> * Amazon CodeWhisper: Free,
> * EasyCode: Free and open-source.
> * CodeGeeX: Free and open-source.
> * MutableAI: Free and open-source.
>
> Most of the above require an account to actually start using.
>
> hope this helps.

**@serggg** · 4 upvotes

> Tried most of the named tools on top of JetBrains IDE and want to tell the following: Codeium is quite Ok, better than other options from the list, but if you can afford GH Copilot, just don't waste your time trying anything else, you already own the best tool in this ligue.

**@icaruk** · 4 upvotes

> I swapped from copilot to codeium and I didn't missed anything.
> I really love the "search" feature, useful when I need to find something like "where the user is created".

**@dislok** · 1 upvotes

> try with VSCode the Codeium extension

**@gogy** · 1 upvotes

> I've been using Codeium for 2 months and to be honest I don't really feel that I'm missing on GitHub Copilot.

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