Windsurf vs Visual Studio Code vs Verdent AI vs GitHub Copilot

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
Visual Studio Code
Competitor 2
Verdent AI
Competitor 3
GitHub Copilot
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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 Verdent AI
verdent.ai
Verdent AI operates as a multi-agent coding system where several AI assistants work in parallel rather than sequentially
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Competitor GitHub Copilot
github.com
Your AI pair programmer that actually knows the codebase
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
29.6Kvisits/mo
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521Kvisits/mo
637.9Mvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 7.8%
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▼ 26.7%
▲ 3.7%
6-month growth
+122.1%
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-18.9%
+19.3%
Global rank web
#1,172,623
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#78,894
#49
Avg. last 3 months
26.9K
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696.2K
629.7M
Bounce rate lower is better
50%
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47%
36%
Pages / visit
1.3
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2.3
5.9
Visit duration
13s
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1m 22s
6m 26s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 66% · ● Referral 27%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
WindsurfVisual Studio CodeVerdent AIGitHub Copilot
0159.5M318.9M478.4M637.9MWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KVerdent AI · 139.3KVerdent AI · 247.1KVerdent AI · 375.2KVerdent AI · 642.3KVerdent AI · 1MVerdent AI · 1MVerdent AI · 856.5KVerdent AI · 711KVerdent AI · 521KGitHub Copilot · 484.3MGitHub Copilot · 504MGitHub Copilot · 542.6MGitHub Copilot · 534.8MGitHub Copilot · 634.3MGitHub Copilot · 631MGitHub Copilot · 636.1MGitHub Copilot · 615.2MGitHub Copilot · 637.9M10K100K1M10M100M1BWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KVerdent AI · 139.3KVerdent AI · 247.1KVerdent AI · 375.2KVerdent AI · 642.3KVerdent AI · 1MVerdent AI · 1MVerdent AI · 856.5KVerdent AI · 711KVerdent AI · 521KGitHub Copilot · 484.3MGitHub Copilot · 504MGitHub Copilot · 542.6MGitHub Copilot · 534.8MGitHub Copilot · 634.3MGitHub Copilot · 631MGitHub Copilot · 636.1MGitHub Copilot · 615.2MGitHub Copilot · 637.9MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$20per month · free tier available
Free
$5per month · free tier available
$4per month · free tier available
Free tier
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API access
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Plans
Free FreePro $20/moMax $200/moTeams $80/mo
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Free FreeLite $5/moStarter $19/moPro $59/mo+1 more
Free FreeTeam $4/moEnterprise $21/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
AppsCode
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Intermediate
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Code Review+1 more
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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GitHub pull requests
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Planning guidance
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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.