Windsurf vs CodeRabbit vs OpenAI Codex CLI vs Ellipsis

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

Your tool
Windsurf
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Competitor 1
CodeRabbit
Competitor 2
OpenAI Codex CLI
Competitor 3
Ellipsis
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool 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 CodeRabbit
coderabbit.ai
Automated code review that matters
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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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Competitor Ellipsis
ellipsis.dev
Ellipsis is a managed cloud platform for running coding agents.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
29.6Kvisits/mo
1Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 7.8%
▼ 22.7%
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6-month growth
+122.1%
+50.4%
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Global rank web
#1,172,623
#38,145
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Avg. last 3 months
26.9K
1.2M
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Bounce rate lower is better
50%
49%
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Pages / visit
1.3
3.5
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Visit duration
13s
1m 55s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 73% · ● Referral 24%
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WindsurfCodeRabbitOpenAI Codex CLIEllipsis
0331.5K663K994.5K1.3MWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KCodeRabbit · 442KCodeRabbit · 588.1KCodeRabbit · 711.7KCodeRabbit · 641.9KCodeRabbit · 681.8KCodeRabbit · 694.5KCodeRabbit · 869.9KCodeRabbit · 1.1MCodeRabbit · 1.3MCodeRabbit · 1M10K100K1M10MWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KCodeRabbit · 442KCodeRabbit · 588.1KCodeRabbit · 711.7KCodeRabbit · 641.9KCodeRabbit · 681.8KCodeRabbit · 694.5KCodeRabbit · 869.9KCodeRabbit · 1.1MCodeRabbit · 1.3MCodeRabbit · 1MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Paid
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
$24per month
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$5,000per month
Free tier
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Plans
Free FreePro $20/moMax $200/moTeams $80/mo
Essentials $24/moTeam $48/moAdvanced $72/moEnterprise Custom
GPT-6-Astra $10GPT-6.1-Sol $2GPT-6-Luna $0.10GPT-Live-1 $0.05/minute+1 more
Managed SaaS Usage-basedYour AWS Account Usage-based
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
Code
CodeImagesText
CodeText
Output
Code
CodeText
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Intermediate
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code Review
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Code Review+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
8
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4
9
Agents
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Coding
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Code reviews
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GitHub pull requests
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Developer tools
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Agent management
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Debugging
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Code autocompletion
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Agent creation
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Code analysis
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Code documentation
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Code quality
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Code security analysis
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Code testing
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Dependency updates
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Development
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Terminal
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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.