Cursor Alternatives

Safer and better-maintained options, ranked by Nerq Trust Score. Updated 2026-06-15.

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#	Name	Trust	Grade	Stars	Key Difference
1	ats-god-optimizer	73	B	-	Higher trust (73 vs 48)
2	Radiator-Routes	69	C	-	Higher trust (69 vs 48)
3	Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct	69	B-	1.5k	Higher trust (69 vs 48)
4	haotian-liu/LLaVA	68	B-	24.5k	Higher trust (68 vs 48)
5	bracket-league-2026	64	C	7	Higher trust (64 vs 48)
6	Qwen3-4B	63	C	556	Higher trust (63 vs 48)
7	deepseek-r1-distill-llama	63	C	76	Higher trust (63 vs 48)
8	AgenticScreeningMetricsDemo	62	C	-	Higher trust (62 vs 48)
9	agento	62	C	18	Higher trust (62 vs 48)
10	InternVL3-1B-hf	62	C	10	Higher trust (62 vs 48)
11	Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-6bit	62	C	5	Higher trust (62 vs 48)
12	Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-5bit	62	C	5	Higher trust (62 vs 48)
13	janku-v5-nsfw-trained-noobai-rou-wei-illustrious-xl-v50-sdxl	62	C	4	Higher trust (62 vs 48)
14	granite-embedding-107m-multilingual	60	C	46	Higher trust (60 vs 48)
15	Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct-GGUF	60	C	38	Higher trust (60 vs 48)

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What are the best alternatives to Cursor?

The top alternatives based on Nerq Trust Score are listed above, all independently evaluated for security and reliability.

Is it safe to switch from Cursor?

Check each alternative's safety report by clicking its name. Trust scores above 70 indicate strong reliability.

How does Nerq rank Cursor alternatives?

Alternatives are ranked by Trust Score v2, combining security, maintenance, documentation, and community signals.