Microsoft Copilot vs Cursor vs OpenAI Codex CLI

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

Your tool
Microsoft Copilot
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Competitor 1
Cursor
Competitor 2
OpenAI Codex CLI
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Microsoft Copilot: ChatGPT92% Gemini88% Claude82% Perplexity AI82% Midjourney82% Gemini Personal Intelligence80% DeepSeek80% Grok80%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Microsoft Copilot
copilot.microsoft.com
AI across Microsoft
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Competitor Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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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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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
81.9Mvisits/mo
4.5Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 31.3%
▲ 7.8%
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6-month growth
-16.6%
-1.8%
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Global rank web
#609
#15,584
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Avg. last 3 months
110.9M
4.4M
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Bounce rate lower is better
36%
57%
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Pages / visit
3.6
2.4
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Visit duration
5m 32s
1m 36s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 87% · ● Referral 11%
● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
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Microsoft CopilotCursorOpenAI Codex CLI
032.9M65.8M98.7M131.6MMicrosoft Copilot · 105.6MMicrosoft Copilot · 97.9MMicrosoft Copilot · 101.2MMicrosoft Copilot · 98.2MMicrosoft Copilot · 123.8MMicrosoft Copilot · 130MMicrosoft Copilot · 131.6MMicrosoft Copilot · 119.2MMicrosoft Copilot · 81.9MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5M1M10M100M1BMicrosoft Copilot · 105.6MMicrosoft Copilot · 97.9MMicrosoft Copilot · 101.2MMicrosoft Copilot · 98.2MMicrosoft Copilot · 123.8MMicrosoft Copilot · 130MMicrosoft Copilot · 131.6MMicrosoft Copilot · 119.2MMicrosoft Copilot · 81.9MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Starting price
Free tier
$20per month · free tier available
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Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
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Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
GPT-6-Astra $10GPT-6.1-Sol $2GPT-6-Luna $0.10GPT-Live-1 $0.05/minute+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioCodeDocumentsImagesText
CodeText
CodeImagesText
Output
AudioCodeImagesText
Code
Code
Skill level
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeEducation & LearningImage Generation+16 more
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
11
7
2
Coding
Chatbots
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Code reviews
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Debugging
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Development
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Homework assistance
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Image generation
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Productivity
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Refactoring
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Research
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Search engine
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Summarizing
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Translations
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Voice assistance
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Writing
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Code documentation
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Developer tools
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Terminal commands management
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Community on aitoolstime
Rating
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Upvotes
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Saves
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Reviews
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Prompts
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