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Services in IDE and Code Editing that offer an ongoing free tier for developers. Limits change often — confirm on the provider's pricing page before you build on one.

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Android Studio

developer.android.com

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Android Studio provides the fastest tools for building apps on every type of Android device. Open Source IDE is free for everyone and the best Android app development. Available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and even ChromeOS!

Apache Netbeans

netbeans.apache.org

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Development Environment, Tooling Platform and Application Framework.

Collaborative design API with instant API mock and generated documentation (Free for unlimited API blueprints and unlimited users with one admin account and hosted documentation).

Binder

mybinder.org

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Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks. It is a free public service.

BlueJ

bluej.org

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A free Java Development Environment designed for beginners, used by millions worldwide. Powered by Oracle & simple GUI to help beginners.

Brackets

brackets.io

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Brackets is an open-source text editor specifically designed for web development. It is lightweight, easy to use, and highly customizable.

Code snippet organizer with labels and support for 100+ programming languages.

Collaborative calculation in the cloud. Browser access to full Ubuntu with built-in collaboration and lots of free software for mathematics, science, data science, preinstalled: Python, LaTeX, Jupyter Notebooks, SageMath, scikitlearn, etc.

Code::Blocks

codeblocks.org

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Free Fortran & C/C++ IDE. Open Source and runs on Windows,macOS & Linux.

Codeground

codeground.ai

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Free browser IDE and playgrounds for 15+ languages plus Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, and Redis. Shareable snippets, coding interviews, and cloud workspaces. Free playgrounds need no install.

Coding Assistant that lets you search, define, and reuse code snippets directly in your IDE. Free for individual and small organizations.

Components.studio

webcomponents.dev

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Code components in isolation, visualize them in stories, test them, and publish them on npm.

Web-based and Kubernetes-Native IDE for Developer Teams with multi-language support. Open Source and community-driven. An online instance hosted by Red Hat is available at workspaces.openshift.com.

ForgeCode

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AI-enabled pair programmer for Claude, GPT4 Series, Grok, Deepseek, Gemini and all frontier models. Works natively with your CLI and integrates seamlessly with any IDE. Free tier includes basic AI model access with local processing.

GetVM

getvm.io

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Instant free Linux and IDEs chrome sidebar. The free tier includes 5 VMs per day.

JDoodle

jdoodle.com

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Online compiler and editor for more than 60 programming languages with a free plan for REST API code compiling up to 200 credits per day.

JSONPlaceholder

jsonplaceholder.typicode.com

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Some REST API endpoints that return some fake data in JSON format. The source code is also available if you would like to run the server locally.

Lazarus

lazarus-ide.org

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Lazarus is a Delphi-compatible cross-platform IDE for Rapid Application Development.

LiveCodes

livecodes.io

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An open-source client-side code playground that supports 90+ languages/frameworks. Projects can be saved, exported, shared, synced, deployed (to GitHub Pages) and embedded in web pages. Mobile-friendly. Can be self-hosted. Free for unlimited usage. No account required.

micro-jaymock

micro-jaymock.now.sh

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Tiny API mocking microservice for generating fake JSON data.

mockaroo

mockaroo.com

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Mockaroo lets you generate realistic test data in CSV, JSON, SQL, and Excel formats. You can also create mocks for back-end API.

Mocklets

mocklets.com

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an HTTP-based mock API simulator that helps simulate APIs for faster parallel development and more comprehensive testing, with a lifetime free tier.

OneCompiler

onecompiler.com

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Free online compiler supporting 70+ languages including Java, Python, C++, JavaScript.

OnlineGDB

onlinegdb.com

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A free online ide thats supports 40+ languages and is pre installed with tons of libraries; and also has a debugging option, flags, tutorials, and a QNA page!

pterocos

pterocos.eu.org

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a free opensource browser-based coding environment for front-end developers. write html, css and js with a vs code-grade editor (monaco), live preview, scss/typeScript/babel support, and an ai chat assistant for debugging and suggestions. all projects save to local storage. free forever – no account needed.

Paiza

paiza.cloud

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Develop Web apps in Browser without needing to set up anything. Free Plan offers one server with 24 24-hour lifetime and 4 hours of running time per day with 2 CPU cores, 2 GB RAM, and 1 GB storage.

Replit

replit.com

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A cloud coding environment for various program languages.

RunMat

runmat.com

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GPU-accelerated numerical computing IDE in the browser. Write and run MATLAB-syntax .m files with automatic GPU acceleration via WebAssembly and WebGPU. No install, no account, no license fees. Open source runtime with CLI, NPM package, and Jupyter kernel support.

SoloLearn

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A cloud programming playground well-suited for running code snippets. Supports various programming languages. No registration is required for running code, but it is necessary when saving code on their platform. Also offers free courses for beginners and intermediate-level coders.

stackblitz.com

stackblitz.com

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Online/Cloud Code IDE to create, edit, & deploy full-stack apps. Support any popular NodeJs-based frontend & backend frameworks. Shortlink to create a new project: node.new.

Sublime Text

sublimetext.com

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Sublime Text is a popular, versatile, and highly customizable text editor used for coding and text editing tasks.

Visual Studio Code

code.visualstudio.com

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Code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Developed by Microsoft.

Visual Studio Community

visualstudio.microsoft.com

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Fully-featured IDE with thousands of extensions, cross-platform app development (Microsoft extensions available for download for iOS and Android), desktop, web and cloud development, multi-language support (C#, C++, JavaScript, Python, PHP and more).

VSCodium

vscodium.com

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Community-driven, without telemetry/tracking, and freely-licensed binary distribution of Microsoft’s editor VSCode

wakatime.com

wakatime.com

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Quantified self-metrics about your coding activity using text editor plugins, limited plan for free.

Wave is an open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows. Render anything inline. Save sessions and history. Powered by open web standards. MacOS and Linux.