Visual Studio Code vs Cursor vs Amazon Q Developer

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

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Visual Studio Code
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Competitor 1
Cursor
Competitor 2
Amazon Q Developer
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Visual Studio Code: TITheia IDE87% GoCodeo86% Cline85% Kilo Code85% OpenAI Codex CLI84% OpenCode84% Gemini CLI84% Kimi Code83%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Visual Studio Code
code.visualstudio.com
Visual Studio Code is a free, open source code editor that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and now includes built-in AI agents.
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Competitor Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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Competitor Amazon Q Developer
aws.amazon.com
AWS coding assistant formerly known as CodeWhisperer
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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4.5Mvisits/mo
62.6Mvisits/mo
MoM change
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▲ 7.8%
▲ 3.5%
6-month growth
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-1.8%
+13.3%
Global rank web
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#15,584
#383
Avg. last 3 months
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4.4M
60.7M
Bounce rate lower is better
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57%
25%
Pages / visit
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2.4
13.9
Visit duration
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1m 36s
10m 30s
Traffic sources
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● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
● Direct 66% · ● Referral 30%
Visual Studio CodeCursorAmazon Q Developer
015.6M31.3M46.9M62.6MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MAmazon Q Developer · 58.7MAmazon Q Developer · 56.5MAmazon Q Developer · 56.6MAmazon Q Developer · 55.3MAmazon Q Developer · 61.1MAmazon Q Developer · 62.3MAmazon Q Developer · 59.1MAmazon Q Developer · 60.5MAmazon Q Developer · 62.6M1M10M100MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MAmazon Q Developer · 58.7MAmazon Q Developer · 56.5MAmazon Q Developer · 56.6MAmazon Q Developer · 55.3MAmazon Q Developer · 61.1MAmazon Q Developer · 62.3MAmazon Q Developer · 59.1MAmazon Q Developer · 60.5MAmazon Q Developer · 62.6MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Free
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
Free
$20per month · free tier available
$19per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Intermediate
Categories
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
Debugging
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Code reviews
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Code documentation
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AWS
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Code refactoring
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Coding in VS Code
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Vs code
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AWS guidance
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Developer tools
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Development
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Refactoring
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AWS management
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Code testing
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Terminal commands management
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Saves
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Reviews
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Prompts
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