Cursor IDE Got Too Expensive? 7 Cheaper AI Coding IDEs in 2026

Cursor's 2025 credit-based pricing pushed thousands of developers to look elsewhere. I tested 7 cheaper Cursor IDE alternatives in production — Windsurf, Claude Code, Copilot, Antigravity, Trae, Kiro, Codex. Honest pricing, real SWE-bench scores, and which one to actually pick.