LM Studio vs GitHub Copilot vs Manus vs Ellipsis

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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GitHub Copilot
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Manus
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Ellipsis
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4 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 GitHub Copilot
github.com
Your AI pair programmer that actually knows the codebase
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Competitor Manus
manus.im
Manus is an AI agent that goes beyond answering questions to carry out tasks and automate workflows.
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Competitor Ellipsis
ellipsis.dev
Ellipsis is a managed cloud platform for running coding agents.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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637.9Mvisits/mo
25Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▲ 3.7%
▲ 27.7%
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6-month growth
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+19.3%
-13.1%
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Global rank web
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#49
#2,481
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Avg. last 3 months
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629.7M
22.6M
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Bounce rate lower is better
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36%
37%
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Pages / visit
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5.9
5.0
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Visit duration
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6m 26s
6m 52s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
● Direct 84% · ● Referral 13%
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LM StudioGitHub CopilotManusEllipsis
0159.5M318.9M478.4M637.9MGitHub Copilot · 484.3MGitHub Copilot · 504MGitHub Copilot · 542.6MGitHub Copilot · 534.8MGitHub Copilot · 634.3MGitHub Copilot · 631MGitHub Copilot · 636.1MGitHub Copilot · 615.2MGitHub Copilot · 637.9MManus · 14.8MManus · 14.4MManus · 18.6MManus · 21.1MManus · 28.8MManus · 29.4MManus · 28MManus · 23.2MManus · 19.6MManus · 25M10M100M1BGitHub Copilot · 484.3MGitHub Copilot · 504MGitHub Copilot · 542.6MGitHub Copilot · 534.8MGitHub Copilot · 634.3MGitHub Copilot · 631MGitHub Copilot · 636.1MGitHub Copilot · 615.2MGitHub Copilot · 637.9MManus · 14.8MManus · 14.4MManus · 18.6MManus · 21.1MManus · 28.8MManus · 29.4MManus · 28MManus · 23.2MManus · 19.6MManus · 25MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
$4per month · free tier available
$16per month · free tier available
$5,000per month
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Plans
Free FreeBionic+ $20/moPro $100/mo
Free FreeTeam $4/moEnterprise $21/mo
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Managed SaaS Usage-basedYour AWS Account Usage-based
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextCodeAudio
CodeText
TextImagesDocuments
TextCode
Output
TextSlidesDocumentsCode
Code
SlidesVideoImagesDocumentsApps
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Intermediate
Intermediate
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant+2 more
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Code Review+1 more
Audio & MusicDesign & CreativeDevelopment & CodeImage Generation+15 more
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Code Review+1 more
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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Dependency updates
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Documents
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Large language models
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Research
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Website building
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Image generation
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Models
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Music
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Terminal
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Transcription
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Video generation
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