Windsurf vs Visual Studio Code vs Gemini CLI vs Cline

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
Visual Studio Code
Competitor 2
Gemini CLI
Competitor 3
Cline
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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 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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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 Cline
cline.bot
Terminal-first coders get a different kind of AI assistant here
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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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WindsurfVisual Studio CodeGemini CLICline
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
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Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
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Plans
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
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CodeDocumentsImagesText
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Output
Code
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Skill level
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
Agents
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Debugging
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Code autocompletion
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Refactoring
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Shell commands
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Terminal
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Bash
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Code analysis
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Terminal commands management
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