Who Codes Best? vs Visual Studio Code vs Windsurf vs Aider

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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Windsurf
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Aider
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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 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 Aider
aider.chat
AI pair programming in your terminal
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
2Kvisits/mo
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29.6Kvisits/mo
317.9Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 90.7%
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▲ 7.8%
▼ 15.9%
6-month growth
+168.0%
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+122.1%
-12.7%
Global rank web
#8,718,640
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#1,172,623
#140,509
Avg. last 3 months
1.4K
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26.9K
378.5K
Bounce rate lower is better
41%
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50%
48%
Pages / visit
1.2
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1.3
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Visit duration
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● Direct 83% · ● Referral 16%
Who Codes Best?Visual Studio CodeWindsurfAider
0119.7K239.3K359K478.7KWho Codes Best? · 747Who Codes Best? · 2.2KWho Codes Best? · 597Who Codes Best? · 1KWho Codes Best? · 1.1KWho Codes Best? · 2KWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KAider · 293.8KAider · 277.7KAider · 314.6KAider · 289.1KAider · 364.1KAider · 402KAider · 478.7KAider · 439.5KAider · 378KAider · 317.9K1001K10K100K1MWho Codes Best? · 747Who Codes Best? · 2.2KWho Codes Best? · 597Who Codes Best? · 1KWho Codes Best? · 1.1KWho Codes Best? · 2KWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KAider · 293.8KAider · 277.7KAider · 314.6KAider · 289.1KAider · 364.1KAider · 402KAider · 478.7KAider · 439.5KAider · 378KAider · 317.9KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
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Model
Freemium
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Freemium
Free
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
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$20per month · free tier available
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Capabilities input → output
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AudioCodeImagesTextWeb pages
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Code
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Skill level
Intermediate
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Categories
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
Debugging
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Agents
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Code autocompletion
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Coding in VS Code
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LLM comparison
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Vs code
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Code testing
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Git commands
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Terminal
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Code reviews
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Development
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GPT comparison
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Refactoring
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Terminal commands management
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