Visual Studio Code vs Cursor vs Trae vs OpenAI Codex CLI

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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Cursor
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Trae
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OpenAI Codex CLI
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4 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 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.
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Competitor OpenAI Codex CLI
developers.openai.com
OpenAI Codex CLI brings the Codex coding agent to the terminal and to scripts.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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4.5Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▲ 7.8%
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6-month growth
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-1.8%
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Global rank web
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#15,584
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Avg. last 3 months
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4.4M
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Bounce rate lower is better
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57%
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Pages / visit
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2.4
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Visit duration
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1m 36s
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Traffic sources
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● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
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Visual Studio CodeCursorTraeOpenAI Codex CLI
01.2M2.3M3.5M4.6MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5M1M10MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
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Starting price
Free
$20per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
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Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
Free FreePro $20/moPro+ $60/moUltra $200/mo
GPT-6-Astra $10GPT-6.1-Sol $2GPT-6-Luna $0.10GPT-Live-1 $0.05/minute+1 more
Capabilities input → output
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CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
CodeImagesText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
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Categories
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AssistantAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
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Development
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Coding in VS Code
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Debugging
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Code documentation
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Terminal commands management
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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.