Windsurf vs Visual Studio Code vs Gemini CLI vs Cursor

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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Visual Studio Code
Competitor 2
Gemini CLI
Competitor 3
Cursor
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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 Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
29.6Kvisits/mo
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4.5Mvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 7.8%
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▲ 7.8%
6-month growth
+122.1%
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-1.8%
Global rank web
#1,172,623
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#15,584
Avg. last 3 months
26.9K
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4.4M
Bounce rate lower is better
50%
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57%
Pages / visit
1.3
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2.4
Visit duration
13s
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1m 36s
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● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
WindsurfVisual Studio CodeGemini CLICursor
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
Free
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Freemium
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
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$20per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Free FreePro $20/moMax $200/moTeams $80/mo
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Free (personal Google account) Free
Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
CodeDocumentsImagesText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI 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
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Vs code
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Refactoring
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Code analysis
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Code documentation
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Terminal commands management
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