There are several others (free and certainly on par with cursor). Personally I'm using

https://aider.chat/docs/usage.html (not a vscode plugin, but with other advantages even when using this editor)

https://docs.continue.dev/getting-started/overview

https://github.com/cline/cline

was pretty good too, but it had taken on too much in its latest version 2.0.0. In other words, it is too unstable at the moment (but probably worth looking at again later).