Visual Studio Code vs Windsurf vs Fine 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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Windsurf
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Fine
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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 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.
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Competitor Fine
fine.dev
Issues become pull requests
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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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29.6Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▲ 7.8%
▼ 40.6%
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6-month growth
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+122.1%
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Global rank web
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#1,172,623
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Avg. last 3 months
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26.9K
269
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Bounce rate lower is better
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50%
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Pages / visit
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1.3
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Visit duration
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13s
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Visual Studio CodeWindsurfFineOpenAI Codex CLI
07.4K14.8K22.2K29.6KWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KFine · 17.3KFine · 17.7KFine · 19.5KFine · 11.9KFine · 1.7KFine · 507Fine · 3011001K10K100KWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KFine · 17.3KFine · 17.7KFine · 19.5KFine · 11.9KFine · 1.7KFine · 507Fine · 301Nov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
Model
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Starting price
Free
$20per month · free tier available
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Plans
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Free FreePro $20/moMax $200/moTeams $80/mo
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GPT-6-Astra $10GPT-6.1-Sol $2GPT-6-Luna $0.10GPT-Live-1 $0.05/minute+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
CodeImagesText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
Agents
Developer tools
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Code autocompletion
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Coding in VS Code
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GitHub automation
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Code reviews
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Development
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GitHub management
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Modernization
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Terminal
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