Consensus vs Continue vs CodeGPT vs Scite

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

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Continue
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CodeGPT
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Scite
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Consensus
consensus.app
Scientific answers from peer-reviewed research
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Competitor Continue
continue.dev
Continue is an open-source AI coding agent that was built by a community of developers and has since been acquired by Cursor.
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Competitor CodeGPT
codegpt.co
ChatGPT in your code editor
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Competitor Scite
scite.ai
Smart citations that show how papers are cited
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
5.8Mvisits/mo
410.4Kvisits/mo
188.3Kvisits/mo
700.2Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 3.5%
▼ 16.6%
▲ 0.8%
▲ 1.8%
6-month growth
+14.4%
-24.4%
-37.2%
-27.6%
Global rank web
#9,859
#106,338
#251,957
#75,906
Avg. last 3 months
5.5M
539.2K
196.6K
716.7K
Bounce rate lower is better
43%
48%
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47%
Pages / visit
4.1
2.4
1.9
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Visit duration
3m 56s
1m 44s
38s
2m 09s
Traffic sources
● Direct 84% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
● Direct 58% · ● Referral 42%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 14%
ConsensusContinueCodeGPTScite
01.5M2.9M4.4M5.9MConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KCodeGPT · 267.5KCodeGPT · 278.8KCodeGPT · 284.1KCodeGPT · 233.4KCodeGPT · 299.7KCodeGPT · 277.1KCodeGPT · 262.2KCodeGPT · 214.6KCodeGPT · 186.8KCodeGPT · 188.3KScite · 983KScite · 874.9KScite · 885.4KScite · 840.8KScite · 967KScite · 1.1MScite · 1MScite · 762KScite · 687.8KScite · 700.2K100K1M10MConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KCodeGPT · 267.5KCodeGPT · 278.8KCodeGPT · 284.1KCodeGPT · 233.4KCodeGPT · 299.7KCodeGPT · 277.1KCodeGPT · 262.2KCodeGPT · 214.6KCodeGPT · 186.8KCodeGPT · 188.3KScite · 983KScite · 874.9KScite · 885.4KScite · 840.8KScite · 967KScite · 1.1MScite · 1MScite · 762KScite · 687.8KScite · 700.2KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$8.99per month · free tier available
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$9per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
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Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
CodeText
CodeText
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Output
Text
Code
Code
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Skill level
Intermediate
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Intermediate
Intermediate
Categories
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool+1 more
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Literature reviews
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Citation verification
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Academic paper evaluation
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Code reviews
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Debugging
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Medical research
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Research papers analysis
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Research papers summaries
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Research trends tracking
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