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Cursor vs GitHub Copilot

The two most-installed AI coding tools. Pricing, context, and cost.

Cursor vs Windsurf

Forked-VS-Code showdown. Cascade agent vs Cursor Composer.

Cline vs Aider

Free autonomous agents — VS Code GUI vs terminal pair-programmer.

Copilot vs Continue.dev

Paid first-party vs open-source BYO-model.

Claude vs GPT for coding

Sonnet 4.6 vs GPT-4.1 vs o3. Benchmarks, pricing, and fit.

Claude vs Gemini for coding

Anthropic's reasoning vs Google's 1M+ context window.

DeepSeek vs Claude

Cheap open-weight vs premium closed — the cost-per-quality trade-off.

Cursor vs Claude Code

IDE that helps vs CLI agent that delegates. When to pick each — or use both.

Cursor vs Copilot pricing

Every plan and per-seat cost. Real monthly math by buyer type.

Cursor vs Windsurf pricing

Premium requests vs Flow Action credits. Which actually costs less.

Copilot vs Cursor for JetBrains

Cursor doesn't run on JetBrains. Here's what to actually use.

Best-of guides 7 ranked picks

Best LLM for coding (2026)

Ranked picks across reasoning, speed, and cost — with real benchmarks.

Best AI coding IDE

Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, JetBrains, Zed — the right pick for each workflow.

Best free AI coding tools

Zero-cost stacks that still feel premium. Local LLMs, open-source agents.

Best IDE for Claude

Cursor, Zed, Windsurf, VS Code, JetBrains — ranked by Claude support quality.

Best AI coding agent

Claude Code, Aider, Cline, Devin, Codex CLI compared — honest picks per use case.

Claude Code cost per month

Pro vs Max vs API — what Claude Code actually costs at real usage.

Aider cost per month

BYO API key — real token math by model and usage level.

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