Raycast records 710,581 monthly visits with -24.5% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Free Trial pricing. VS Code records 7,397,370 monthly visits with -3.8% growth and Freemium pricing.
An extendable launcher that puts your tools, AI, and automations one keystroke away
Write code with precision, hand bigger jobs to agents, and keep working from anywhere
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | raycast.com | code.visualstudio.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Free Trial | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 710.58K (710,581) | 7.4M (7,397,370) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -230.34K (-24.5%) | -288.8K (-3.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (26.9%) | 🇺🇸 United States (18.9%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 350.22K | 2.17M |
| User Rating | 4.8 | 4.8 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
An extendable launcher that puts your tools, AI, and automations one keystroke away
Open apps, run commands, and search files from a single hotkey, with thousands of community extensions connecting the services you already use.
Chat with leading AI models, call Quick AI from any app, and let AI Extensions act on your connected tools to finish multi-step tasks.
Browse everything you have copied and insert frequently used text or addresses by simply typing a keyword.
Create shortcuts that launch URLs, run scripts, or trigger commands, and assign hotkeys or aliases to the actions you repeat most.
Write code with precision, hand bigger jobs to agents, and keep working from anywhere
Agents open the repository, form a plan, edit multiple files and explain the changes so you can review each diff before accepting it. You can also run several agents in parallel to push a backlog forward.
Point the editor at Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft or open-weight models, or bring your own key. Pick the Copilot, Claude or Codex harness that matches how you like to work.
JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML and CSS work out of the box, and Marketplace extensions add IntelliSense, linting, refactoring and debuggers for Python, Java, C++, Go, Rust and more.
Integrated terminal, source control, debugger, testing, Jupyter notebooks, an integrated browser and Dev Containers all live in one window, so you stay close to the code.
AI-native code editor built on VS Code fork with deep multi-file editing and intelligent codebase indexing.
AI-native code editor built on VS Code fork with deep multi-file editing and intelligent codebase indexing.
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