Qwen Code vs Aider vs Cursor vs Gemini CLI

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

Your tool
Qwen Code
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Competitor 1
Aider
Competitor 2
Cursor
Competitor 3
Gemini CLI
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Qwen Code
github.com
Qwen Code is an open-source AI coding agent that lives in the terminal and also runs in editors, a desktop app, a Web UI and chat apps.
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Competitor Aider
aider.chat
AI pair programming in your terminal
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Competitor Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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Competitor 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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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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317.9Kvisits/mo
4.5Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▼ 15.9%
▲ 7.8%
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6-month growth
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-12.7%
-1.8%
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Global rank web
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#140,509
#15,584
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Avg. last 3 months
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378.5K
4.4M
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Bounce rate lower is better
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48%
57%
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Pages / visit
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2.0
2.4
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Visit duration
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55s
1m 36s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 83% · ● Referral 16%
● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
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Qwen CodeAiderCursorGemini CLI
01.2M2.3M3.5M4.6MAider · 293.8KAider · 277.7KAider · 314.6KAider · 289.1KAider · 364.1KAider · 402KAider · 478.7KAider · 439.5KAider · 378KAider · 317.9KCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5M100K1M10MAider · 293.8KAider · 277.7KAider · 314.6KAider · 289.1KAider · 364.1KAider · 402KAider · 478.7KAider · 439.5KAider · 378KAider · 317.9KCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
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Freemium
Free
Starting price
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Free
$20per month · free tier available
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Plans
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Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
Free (personal Google account) Free
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextCode
Web pagesTextImagesCodeAudio
CodeText
TextImagesDocumentsCode
Output
Code
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
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Terminal commands management
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Code reviews
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Code testing
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Git commands
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Terminal
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Code analysis
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Code documentation
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