Zed vs Windsurf vs Cline vs Augment Code

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Zed
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Windsurf
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Cline
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Augment Code
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Zed
zed.dev
Speed meets intelligence
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Competitor 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 Cline
cline.bot
Terminal-first coders get a different kind of AI assistant here
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Competitor Augment Code
augmentcode.com
Augment Code is an agentic software development company whose Cosmos platform runs software agents across the development lifecycle.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
1.2Mvisits/mo
29.6Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 18.1%
▲ 7.8%
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6-month growth
+26.6%
+122.1%
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Global rank web
#47,672
#1,172,623
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Avg. last 3 months
1.5M
26.9K
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Bounce rate lower is better
42%
50%
0%
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Pages / visit
2.8
1.3
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Visit duration
1m 56s
13s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 18%
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ZedWindsurfClineAugment Code
0462K923.9K1.4M1.8MZed · 1.1MZed · 966.1KZed · 1.1MZed · 936.1KZed · 1.4MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.8MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.2MWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6K10K100K1M10MZed · 1.1MZed · 966.1KZed · 1.1MZed · 936.1KZed · 1.4MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.8MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.2MWindsurf · 16KWindsurf · 24.3KWindsurf · 15.7KWindsurf · 13.3KWindsurf · 25.4KWindsurf · 29.3KWindsurf · 23.6KWindsurf · 27.5KWindsurf · 29.6KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJul
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
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Starting price
Free tier
$20per month · free tier available
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Plans
Personal FreePro $10/moBusiness $30/mo
Free FreePro $20/moMax $200/moTeams $80/mo
Open Source CustomEnterprise Custom
Standard $20/moBusiness $100/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Code Review+2 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
Agents
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Code autocompletion
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Debugging
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Development
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Refactoring
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Coding in VS Code
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Developer tools
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Shell commands
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Terminal
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Testing
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Agent creation
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Bash
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Code testing
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Git commands
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Terminal commands management
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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.