Trae vs Windsurf vs Codespell vs Who Codes Best?

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

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Trae
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Windsurf
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Codespell
Competitor 3
Who Codes Best?
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Trae
trae.ai
Trae is an AI product line with two parts: TraeCode, which it calls a 10x AI coding engineer, and TraeWork, a professional AI work assistant available on the web and as a download.
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.
Competitor Codespell
codespell.ai
CodeSpell, recently rebranded as SoftSpell, operates as an IDE-integrated coding assistant that generates code and documentation through a combination of inline suggestions and chat-based interactions
Competitor Who Codes Best?
whocodesbest.com
Picking an AI coding assistant feels like guessing
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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29.6Kvisits/mo
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2Kvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 7.8%
▼ 53.3%
▲ 90.7%
6-month growth
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+122.1%
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+168.0%
Global rank web
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#1,172,623
#9,819,950
#8,718,640
Avg. last 3 months
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26.9K
1.6K
1.4K
Bounce rate lower is better
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50%
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41%
Pages / visit
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1.3
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1.2
Visit duration
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13s
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1s
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TraeWindsurfCodespellWho Codes Best?
07.4K14.8K22.2K29.6KWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KCodespell · 4.6KCodespell · 3.9KCodespell · 3.2KCodespell · 1.5KWho Codes Best? · 747Who Codes Best? · 2.2KWho Codes Best? · 597Who Codes Best? · 1KWho Codes Best? · 1.1KWho Codes Best? · 2K1001K10K100KWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KCodespell · 4.6KCodespell · 3.9KCodespell · 3.2KCodespell · 1.5KWho Codes Best? · 747Who Codes Best? · 2.2KWho Codes Best? · 597Who Codes Best? · 1KWho Codes Best? · 1.1KWho Codes Best? · 2KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Free Trial
Freemium
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
$12per month
$20per month · free tier available
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Plans
Free FreePro $20/moPro+ $60/moUltra $200/mo
Free FreePro $20/moMax $200/moTeams $80/mo
Starter $12/moGrowth $20/moEnterprise Custom
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
Text
Output
Code
Code
CodeDocuments
Code
Skill level
Intermediate
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Intermediate
Intermediate
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
Code autocompletion
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Agents
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LLM comparison
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Debugging
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Developer tools
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Model comparison
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Modernization
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Code documentation
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GPT comparison
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Test automation
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Test creation
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Testing
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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.