Fine vs LM Studio vs Cline vs Windsurf

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

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Fine
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LM Studio
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Cline
Competitor 3
Windsurf
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Fine
fine.dev
Issues become pull requests
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Competitor LM Studio
lmstudio.ai
LM Studio is a desktop application for running large language models on your own computer, and its Bionic release adds an agent for work and code.
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Competitor Cline
cline.bot
Terminal-first coders get a different kind of AI assistant here
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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.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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29.6Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 40.6%
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▲ 7.8%
6-month growth
-98.3%
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+122.1%
Global rank web
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#1,172,623
Avg. last 3 months
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26.9K
Bounce rate lower is better
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Pages / visit
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1.3
Visit duration
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FineLM StudioClineWindsurf
07.4K14.8K22.2K29.6KFine · 17.3KFine · 17.7KFine · 19.5KFine · 11.9KFine · 1.7KFine · 507Fine · 301Windsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6K1001K10K100KFine · 17.3KFine · 17.7KFine · 19.5KFine · 11.9KFine · 1.7KFine · 507Fine · 301Windsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
$20per month · free tier available
Free
$20per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Free FreeBionic+ $20/moPro $100/mo
Open Source CustomEnterprise Custom
Free FreePro $20/moMax $200/moTeams $80/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
AudioCodeText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
CodeDocumentsSlidesText
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant+2 more
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Agents
Coding
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Coding in VS Code
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Debugging
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Developer tools
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Documents
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GitHub automation
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Large language models
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MCP
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Shell commands
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Terminal
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Vs code
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Bash
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Code reviews
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GitHub management
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Models
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Modernization
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Presentations
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Terminal commands management
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