Windsurf vs LM Studio vs GitHub Copilot CLI

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
LM Studio
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GitHub Copilot CLI
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Windsurf: Ellipsis89% devlo86% GitHub Copilot85% Google Antigravity85% OpenHands84% Claude Code84% Factory83% Augment Code83%
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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 LM Studio
lmstudio.ai
LM Studio is a desktop application for running large language models on your own computer, and its Bionic release adds an agent for work and code.
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Competitor GitHub Copilot CLI
github.com
It reads, writes and runs code, works directly with your issues and pull requests, and carries a task from planning to merged code.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
29.6Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 7.8%
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6-month growth
+122.1%
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Global rank web
#1,172,623
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Avg. last 3 months
26.9K
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Bounce rate lower is better
50%
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Pages / visit
1.3
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Visit duration
13s
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WindsurfLM StudioGitHub Copilot CLI
07.4K14.8K22.2K29.6KWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6K10K100KWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Free
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
Free
Free tier
Free trial
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Plans
Free FreePro $20/moMax $200/moTeams $80/mo
Free FreeBionic+ $20/moPro $100/mo
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
AudioCodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
CodeDocumentsSlidesText
Code
Skill level
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant+2 more
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
6
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Agents
Coding
Agent management
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Debugging
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GitHub management
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