Who Codes Best? vs Visual Studio Code vs GitHub Copilot vs Cursor

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

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Who Codes Best?
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Visual Studio Code
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GitHub Copilot
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Cursor
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Who Codes Best?
whocodesbest.com
Picking an AI coding assistant feels like guessing
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Competitor 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 GitHub Copilot
github.com
Your AI pair programmer that actually knows the codebase
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Competitor Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
2Kvisits/mo
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637.9Mvisits/mo
4.5Mvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 90.7%
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▲ 3.7%
▲ 7.8%
6-month growth
+168.0%
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+19.3%
-1.8%
Global rank web
#8,718,640
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#49
#15,584
Avg. last 3 months
1.4K
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629.7M
4.4M
Bounce rate lower is better
41%
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36%
57%
Pages / visit
1.2
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5.9
2.4
Visit duration
1s
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6m 26s
1m 36s
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● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
Who Codes Best?Visual Studio CodeGitHub CopilotCursor
0159.5M318.9M478.4M637.9MWho Codes Best? · 747Who Codes Best? · 2.2KWho Codes Best? · 597Who Codes Best? · 1KWho Codes Best? · 1.1KWho Codes Best? · 2KGitHub Copilot · 484.3MGitHub Copilot · 504MGitHub Copilot · 542.6MGitHub Copilot · 534.8MGitHub Copilot · 634.3MGitHub Copilot · 631MGitHub Copilot · 636.1MGitHub Copilot · 615.2MGitHub Copilot · 637.9MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5M1001K10K100K1M10M100M1BWho Codes Best? · 747Who Codes Best? · 2.2KWho Codes Best? · 597Who Codes Best? · 1KWho Codes Best? · 1.1KWho Codes Best? · 2KGitHub Copilot · 484.3MGitHub Copilot · 504MGitHub Copilot · 542.6MGitHub Copilot · 534.8MGitHub Copilot · 634.3MGitHub Copilot · 631MGitHub Copilot · 636.1MGitHub Copilot · 615.2MGitHub Copilot · 637.9MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Free
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Freemium
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
Free
$4per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
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Free FreeTeam $4/moEnterprise $21/mo
Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
Capabilities input → output
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Text
CodeText
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CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
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Skill level
Intermediate
Advanced
Intermediate
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Categories
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Code Review+1 more
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
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Coding in VS Code
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Debugging
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Development
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GPT comparison
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Refactoring
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Agent management
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Terminal commands management
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