Aider vs Windsurf vs Continue vs Sourcegraph Cody

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

Your tool
Aider
vs
Competitor 1
Windsurf
Competitor 2
Continue
Competitor 3
Sourcegraph Cody
Compare
4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Aider
aider.chat
AI pair programming in your terminal
Remove
Competitor Windsurf
windsurf.com
Windsurf, which now appears on the web as Devin Desktop, is a desktop code editor that doubles as a control room for coding agents.
Make main Remove
Competitor Continue
continue.dev
Continue is an open-source AI coding agent that was built by a community of developers and has since been acquired by Cursor.
Make main Remove
Competitor Sourcegraph Cody
sourcegraph.com
AI that knows your codebase
Make main Remove
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
317.9Kvisits/mo
29.6Kvisits/mo
410.4Kvisits/mo
185.6Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 15.9%
▲ 7.8%
▼ 16.6%
▼ 10.6%
6-month growth
-12.7%
+122.1%
-24.4%
-40.6%
Global rank web
#140,509
#1,172,623
#106,338
#204,583
Avg. last 3 months
378.5K
26.9K
539.2K
209.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
48%
50%
48%
42%
Pages / visit
2.0
1.3
2.4
2.9
Visit duration
55s
13s
1m 44s
1m 39s
Traffic sources
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 16%
—
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
● Direct 91% · ● Referral 7%
AiderWindsurfContinueSourcegraph Cody
0193.8K387.7K581.5K775.3KAider · 293.8KAider · 277.7KAider · 314.6KAider · 289.1KAider · 364.1KAider · 402KAider · 478.7KAider · 439.5KAider · 378KAider · 317.9KWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KSourcegraph Cody · 396.9KSourcegraph Cody · 383.2KSourcegraph Cody · 377.2KSourcegraph Cody · 305.8KSourcegraph Cody · 312.4KSourcegraph Cody · 254.6KSourcegraph Cody · 244.5KSourcegraph Cody · 235.9KSourcegraph Cody · 207.6KSourcegraph Cody · 185.6K10K100K1MAider · 293.8KAider · 277.7KAider · 314.6KAider · 289.1KAider · 364.1KAider · 402KAider · 478.7KAider · 439.5KAider · 378KAider · 317.9KWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KSourcegraph Cody · 396.9KSourcegraph Cody · 383.2KSourcegraph Cody · 377.2KSourcegraph Cody · 305.8KSourcegraph Cody · 312.4KSourcegraph Cody · 254.6KSourcegraph Cody · 244.5KSourcegraph Cody · 235.9KSourcegraph Cody · 207.6KSourcegraph Cody · 185.6KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Free
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Starting price
Free
$20per month · free tier available
Free
$16,000per month
Free tier
–
Free trial
–
–
–
API access
–
–
–
–
Plans
—
Free FreePro $20/moMax $200/moTeams $80/mo
—
Enterprise $16,000/yr
Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioCodeImagesTextWeb pages
CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
8
6
3
4
Coding
Debugging
–
Code reviews
–
–
Development
–
–
Agent management
–
–
–
Agents
–
–
–
Code testing
–
–
–
Git commands
–
–
–
Terminal
–
–
–
Code analysis
–
–
–
GitHub pull requests
–
–
–
Prompt management
–
–
–
Refactoring
–
–
–
Terminal commands management
–
–
–
Community on aitoolstime
Rating
no ratings yet
no ratings yet
no ratings yet
no ratings yet
Upvotes
▲ 0
▲ 1
▲ 0
▲ 0
Saves
0
0
0
0
Reviews
0
0
0
0
Prompts
0
0
0
0
Verified listing
–
–
–
–

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.