Void is an open-source AI code editor forked from VS Code that gives you frontier AI features — autocomplete, inline edits and agent chat — with any model you choose and full control over your data.
Void, backed by Y Combinator, takes the AI-first editing experience popularized by closed commercial IDEs and rebuilds it as a fully open-source project. Because it is a fork of VS Code rather than a plugin, themes, keybindings, extensions and settings transfer over in one click, and the editing surface feels immediately familiar to the millions of developers already on VS Code.
The difference is the model layer. Void does not lock you into a vendor subscription or route your code through a proprietary cloud. You connect the models you want — hosted APIs from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google, or local models running on your own machine — and switch freely as prices and capabilities change. That makes Void equally useful for a developer experimenting with local open-weight models on a laptop and for a privacy-conscious engineer who cannot send proprietary code to a third party at all.
Void is completely free and open source. You can download the beta from the website or build it from the GitHub repository at no cost. The only possible expense is third-party model usage: if you connect a paid hosted API you pay that provider’s rates, while local models are entirely free.
Developers who want a Cursor-style AI editor without subscriptions, telemetry or vendor lock-in. Teams that need enterprise administration, SSO or a vendor support contract should note Void is still an open-source beta rather than a managed enterprise product.