Windsurf vs Jules vs Visual Studio Code

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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Competitor 1
Jules
Competitor 2
Visual Studio Code
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Windsurf: Ellipsis89% devlo86% GitHub Copilot85% Google Antigravity85% OpenHands84% Claude Code84% Factory83% Augment Code83%
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3 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 Jules
jules.google
An AI coding assistant that works while you sleep sounds like science fiction, but Jules runs continuously in the cloud doing exactly that
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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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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
29.6Kvisits/mo
280.8Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 7.8%
▼ 27.6%
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6-month growth
+122.1%
-46.5%
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Global rank web
#1,172,623
#198,101
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Avg. last 3 months
26.9K
435.9K
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Bounce rate lower is better
50%
49%
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Pages / visit
1.3
1.6
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Visit duration
13s
42s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 71% · ● Referral 28%
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WindsurfJulesVisual Studio Code
0201K402.1K603.1K804.2KWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KJules · 804.2KJules · 742.5KJules · 525.1KJules · 315.3KJules · 476.6KJules · 638.7KJules · 388.1KJules · 280.8K10K100K1MWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KJules · 804.2KJules · 742.5KJules · 525.1KJules · 315.3KJules · 476.6KJules · 638.7KJules · 388.1KJules · 280.8KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Free
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
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Free
Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Free FreePro $20/moMax $200/moTeams $80/mo
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
6
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4
Coding
Agents
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Code reviews
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Agent management
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Coding in VS Code
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Vs code
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Debugging
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Developer tools
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Development
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Testing
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GitHub pull requests
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UI testing
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Rating
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Upvotes
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Saves
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Reviews
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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.