Aider vs Cursor vs Zed vs Gemini CLI

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
Aider
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Competitor 1
Cursor
Competitor 2
Zed
Competitor 3
Gemini CLI
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Aider
aider.chat
AI pair programming in your terminal
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Competitor Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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Competitor Zed
zed.dev
Speed meets intelligence
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Competitor Gemini CLI
github.com
It can query and edit large codebases, generate new apps from PDFs, images, or sketches using multimodal input, and debug problems when you describe them in plain language.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
317.9Kvisits/mo
4.5Mvisits/mo
1.2Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 15.9%
▲ 7.8%
▼ 18.1%
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6-month growth
-12.7%
-1.8%
+26.6%
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Global rank web
#140,509
#15,584
#47,672
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Avg. last 3 months
378.5K
4.4M
1.5M
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Bounce rate lower is better
48%
57%
42%
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Pages / visit
2.0
2.4
2.8
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Visit duration
55s
1m 36s
1m 56s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 16%
● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 18%
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AiderCursorZedGemini CLI
01.2M2.3M3.5M4.6MAider · 293.8KAider · 277.7KAider · 314.6KAider · 289.1KAider · 364.1KAider · 402KAider · 478.7KAider · 439.5KAider · 378KAider · 317.9KCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MZed · 1.1MZed · 966.1KZed · 1.1MZed · 936.1KZed · 1.4MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.8MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.2M100K1M10MAider · 293.8KAider · 277.7KAider · 314.6KAider · 289.1KAider · 364.1KAider · 402KAider · 478.7KAider · 439.5KAider · 378KAider · 317.9KCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MZed · 1.1MZed · 966.1KZed · 1.1MZed · 936.1KZed · 1.4MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.8MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.2MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Free
Freemium
Freemium
Free
Starting price
Free
$20per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free
Free tier
Free trial
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Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
Personal FreePro $10/moBusiness $30/mo
Free (personal Google account) Free
Capabilities input → output
Input
Web pagesTextImagesCodeAudio
CodeText
TextCode
TextImagesDocumentsCode
Output
Code
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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5
1
Coding
Debugging
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Development
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Git commands
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Refactoring
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Terminal commands management
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Code autocompletion
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Code reviews
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Code testing
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Terminal
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Code documentation
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.