LM Studio vs Cursor vs Windsurf

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

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LM Studio
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Competitor 1
Cursor
Competitor 2
Windsurf
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for LM Studio: Genspark77% Manus76% OpenCode74% Abacus.AI DeepAgent74% OpenHands73% MiniMax Agent73% Qwen Code73% TalkCody73%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool 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 Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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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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4.5Mvisits/mo
29.6Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 7.8%
▲ 7.8%
6-month growth
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-1.8%
+122.1%
Global rank web
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#15,584
#1,172,623
Avg. last 3 months
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4.4M
26.9K
Bounce rate lower is better
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57%
50%
Pages / visit
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2.4
1.3
Visit duration
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1m 36s
13s
Traffic sources
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● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
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LM StudioCursorWindsurf
01.2M2.3M3.5M4.6MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6K10K100K1M10MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Free FreeBionic+ $20/moPro $100/mo
Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
Free FreePro $20/moMax $200/moTeams $80/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
AudioCodeText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
CodeDocumentsSlidesText
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant+2 more
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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8
Coding
Agents
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Debugging
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Code reviews
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Agent management
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Code autocompletion
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Local AI
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Self hosted
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Developer tools
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Development
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Documents
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Large language models
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Refactoring
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Code documentation
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GitHub pull requests
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Models
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Presentations
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Terminal commands management
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Transcription
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Reviews
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Prompts
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