Windsurf vs Gemini CLI vs OpenAI Codex vs Continue

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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Gemini CLI
Competitor 2
OpenAI Codex
Competitor 3
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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 Gemini CLI
github.com
It can query and edit large codebases, generate new apps from PDFs, images, or sketches using multimodal input, and debug problems when you describe them in plain language.
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Competitor OpenAI Codex
openai.com
A dedicated coding agent that writes and runs code for you
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Competitor Continue
continue.dev
Continue is an open-source AI coding agent that was built by a community of developers and has since been acquired by Cursor.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
29.6Kvisits/mo
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204.3Mvisits/mo
410.4Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 7.8%
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▲ 3.6%
▼ 16.6%
6-month growth
+122.1%
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+0.3%
-24.4%
Global rank web
#1,172,623
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#212
#106,338
Avg. last 3 months
26.9K
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197.3M
539.2K
Bounce rate lower is better
50%
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58%
48%
Pages / visit
1.3
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3.0
2.4
Visit duration
13s
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2m 31s
1m 44s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 81% · ● Referral 17%
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
WindsurfGemini CLIOpenAI CodexContinue
066.6M133.2M199.7M266.3MWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KOpenAI Codex · 266.3MOpenAI Codex · 225MOpenAI Codex · 210.1MOpenAI Codex · 191.2MOpenAI Codex · 203.7MOpenAI Codex · 195.7MOpenAI Codex · 203.1MOpenAI Codex · 190.4MOpenAI Codex · 197.2MOpenAI Codex · 204.3MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4K10K100K1M10M100M1BWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KOpenAI Codex · 266.3MOpenAI Codex · 225MOpenAI Codex · 210.1MOpenAI Codex · 191.2MOpenAI Codex · 203.7MOpenAI Codex · 195.7MOpenAI Codex · 203.1MOpenAI Codex · 190.4MOpenAI Codex · 197.2MOpenAI Codex · 204.3MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Free
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
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$20per month · free tier available
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Plans
Free FreePro $20/moMax $200/moTeams $80/mo
Free (personal Google account) Free
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeDocumentsImagesText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
Agents
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Code reviews
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Debugging
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Development
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Developer tools
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Agent management
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Code autocompletion
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GitHub automation
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Code analysis
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Code documentation
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Terminal
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Community on aitoolstime
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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.