Cursor vs Visual Studio Code vs Jules

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

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Cursor
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Competitor 1
Visual Studio Code
Competitor 2
Jules
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Cursor: GitHub Copilot88% Windsurf88% Google Antigravity86% CodeRabbit85% Claude Code84% Qodo (Formerly Codium)82% OpenAI Codex82% Zed80%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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Competitor Visual Studio Code
code.visualstudio.com
Visual Studio Code is a free, open source code editor that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and now includes built-in AI agents.
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Competitor Jules
jules.google
An AI coding assistant that works while you sleep sounds like science fiction, but Jules runs continuously in the cloud doing exactly that
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
4.5Mvisits/mo
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280.8Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 7.8%
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▼ 27.6%
6-month growth
-1.8%
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-46.5%
Global rank web
#15,584
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#198,101
Avg. last 3 months
4.4M
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435.9K
Bounce rate lower is better
57%
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49%
Pages / visit
2.4
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1.6
Visit duration
1m 36s
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42s
Traffic sources
● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
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● Direct 71% · ● Referral 28%
CursorVisual Studio CodeJules
01.2M2.3M3.5M4.6MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MJules · 804.2KJules · 742.5KJules · 525.1KJules · 315.3KJules · 476.6KJules · 638.7KJules · 388.1KJules · 280.8K100K1M10MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MJules · 804.2KJules · 742.5KJules · 525.1KJules · 315.3KJules · 476.6KJules · 638.7KJules · 388.1KJules · 280.8KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Starting price
$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
Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
Code reviews
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Development
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Coding in VS Code
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Vs code
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Agents
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Debugging
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Developer tools
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Refactoring
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Testing
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Code documentation
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Terminal commands management
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UI testing
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Community on aitoolstime
Rating
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Upvotes
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Saves
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Reviews
0
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Prompts
3
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