Aider vs OpenAI Codex CLI vs GitHub Copilot vs Cursor

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

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Aider
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OpenAI Codex CLI
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GitHub Copilot
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Cursor
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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 OpenAI Codex CLI
developers.openai.com
OpenAI Codex CLI brings the Codex coding agent to the terminal and to scripts.
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Competitor GitHub Copilot
github.com
Your AI pair programmer that actually knows the codebase
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Competitor Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
317.9Kvisits/mo
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637.9Mvisits/mo
4.5Mvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 15.9%
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▲ 3.7%
▲ 7.8%
6-month growth
-12.7%
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+19.3%
-1.8%
Global rank web
#140,509
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#49
#15,584
Avg. last 3 months
378.5K
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629.7M
4.4M
Bounce rate lower is better
48%
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36%
57%
Pages / visit
2.0
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5.9
2.4
Visit duration
55s
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6m 26s
1m 36s
Traffic sources
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 16%
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● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
AiderOpenAI Codex CLIGitHub CopilotCursor
0159.5M318.9M478.4M637.9MAider · 293.8KAider · 277.7KAider · 314.6KAider · 289.1KAider · 364.1KAider · 402KAider · 478.7KAider · 439.5KAider · 378KAider · 317.9KGitHub Copilot · 484.3MGitHub Copilot · 504MGitHub Copilot · 542.6MGitHub Copilot · 534.8MGitHub Copilot · 634.3MGitHub Copilot · 631MGitHub Copilot · 636.1MGitHub Copilot · 615.2MGitHub Copilot · 637.9MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5M100K1M10M100M1BAider · 293.8KAider · 277.7KAider · 314.6KAider · 289.1KAider · 364.1KAider · 402KAider · 478.7KAider · 439.5KAider · 378KAider · 317.9KGitHub Copilot · 484.3MGitHub Copilot · 504MGitHub Copilot · 542.6MGitHub Copilot · 534.8MGitHub Copilot · 634.3MGitHub Copilot · 631MGitHub Copilot · 636.1MGitHub Copilot · 615.2MGitHub Copilot · 637.9MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
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Starting price
Free
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$4per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
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GPT-6-Astra $10GPT-6.1-Sol $2GPT-6-Luna $0.10GPT-Live-1 $0.05/minute+1 more
Free FreeTeam $4/moEnterprise $21/mo
Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioCodeImagesTextWeb pages
CodeImagesText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
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Skill level
Advanced
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Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Code Review+1 more
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
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Terminal
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Agent management
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