OpenAI Codex CLI vs Cursor vs CodeGPT

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

Your tool
OpenAI Codex CLI
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Competitor 1
Cursor
Competitor 2
CodeGPT
Competitor 3
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool OpenAI Codex CLI
developers.openai.com
OpenAI Codex CLI brings the Codex coding agent to the terminal and to scripts.
Competitor Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
Competitor CodeGPT
codegpt.co
ChatGPT in your code editor
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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4.5Mvisits/mo
188.3Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 7.8%
▲ 0.8%
6-month growth
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-1.8%
-37.2%
Global rank web
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#15,584
#251,957
Avg. last 3 months
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4.4M
196.6K
Bounce rate lower is better
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57%
43%
Pages / visit
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2.4
1.9
Visit duration
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1m 36s
38s
Traffic sources
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● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
● Direct 58% · ● Referral 42%
OpenAI Codex CLICursorCodeGPT
01.2M2.3M3.5M4.6MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MCodeGPT · 267.5KCodeGPT · 278.8KCodeGPT · 284.1KCodeGPT · 233.4KCodeGPT · 299.7KCodeGPT · 277.1KCodeGPT · 262.2KCodeGPT · 214.6KCodeGPT · 186.8KCodeGPT · 188.3K100K1M10MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MCodeGPT · 267.5KCodeGPT · 278.8KCodeGPT · 284.1KCodeGPT · 233.4KCodeGPT · 299.7KCodeGPT · 277.1KCodeGPT · 262.2KCodeGPT · 214.6KCodeGPT · 186.8KCodeGPT · 188.3KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Paid
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
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$20per month · free tier available
$9per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
GPT-6-Astra $10GPT-6.1-Sol $2GPT-6-Luna $0.10GPT-Live-1 $0.05/minute+1 more
Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
Free FreeProfessional $9/moTeams $27/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeImagesText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Intermediate
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
2
7
3
Coding
Debugging
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Code reviews
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Development
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Refactoring
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Code documentation
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Developer tools
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MCP
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Terminal commands management
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Community on aitoolstime
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Saves
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Reviews
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Prompts
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.