Windsurf vs Cursor vs OpenAI Codex CLI vs OpenHands

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

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Windsurf
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Cursor
Competitor 2
OpenAI Codex CLI
Competitor 3
OpenHands
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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 Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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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 OpenHands
openhands.dev
OpenHands is an open-source, model-agnostic platform for running coding agents in the cloud.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
29.6Kvisits/mo
4.5Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 7.8%
▲ 7.8%
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6-month growth
+122.1%
-1.8%
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Global rank web
#1,172,623
#15,584
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Avg. last 3 months
26.9K
4.4M
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Bounce rate lower is better
50%
57%
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Pages / visit
1.3
2.4
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Visit duration
13s
1m 36s
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Traffic sources
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● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
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WindsurfCursorOpenAI Codex CLIOpenHands
01.2M2.3M3.5M4.6MWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5M10K100K1M10MWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Paid
Free
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
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Plans
Free FreePro $20/moMax $200/moTeams $80/mo
Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
GPT-6-Astra $10GPT-6.1-Sol $2GPT-6-Luna $0.10GPT-Live-1 $0.05/minute+1 more
Open Source (Local) FreeIndividual (SaaS) FreeEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
CodeImagesText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Code Review+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
6
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5
Coding
Code reviews
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Debugging
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Agent management
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Development
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Refactoring
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Code documentation
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Developer tools
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Tech team automation
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Terminal commands management
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Prompts
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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.