Gemini CLI vs Cursor vs OpenAI Codex CLI vs Kimi Code

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

Your tool
Gemini CLI
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Competitor 1
Cursor
Competitor 2
OpenAI Codex CLI
Competitor 3
Kimi Code
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Gemini CLI
github.com
It can query and edit large codebases, generate new apps from PDFs, images, or sketches using multimodal input, and debug problems when you describe them in plain language.
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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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Competitor Kimi Code
kimi.com
Writing code means constantly jumping between your editor and browser tabs stuffed with documentation
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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4.5Mvisits/mo
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60.1Mvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 7.8%
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▲ 52.2%
6-month growth
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-1.8%
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+33.8%
Global rank web
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#15,584
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#852
Avg. last 3 months
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4.4M
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48.3M
Bounce rate lower is better
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57%
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37%
Pages / visit
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2.4
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3.9
Visit duration
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1m 36s
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7m 13s
Traffic sources
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● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
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● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
Gemini CLICursorOpenAI Codex CLIKimi Code
015M30.1M45.1M60.1MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MKimi Code · 43.3MKimi Code · 38.2MKimi Code · 33.5MKimi Code · 44.9MKimi Code · 48.1MKimi Code · 43MKimi Code · 45.3MKimi Code · 39.5MKimi Code · 60.1M1M10M100MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MKimi Code · 43.3MKimi Code · 38.2MKimi Code · 33.5MKimi Code · 44.9MKimi Code · 48.1MKimi Code · 43MKimi Code · 45.3MKimi Code · 39.5MKimi Code · 60.1MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Free
Freemium
Paid
Freemium
Starting price
Free
$20per month · free tier available
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$15per month · free tier available
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Plans
Free (personal Google account) Free
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
Adagio FreePlus $15/moPro $31/moMax $79/mo+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeDocumentsImagesText
CodeText
CodeImagesText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
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Prompts
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