Consensus vs Continue vs OpenAI Codex CLI

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

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OpenAI Codex CLI
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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 OpenAI Codex CLI
developers.openai.com
OpenAI Codex CLI brings the Codex coding agent to the terminal and to scripts.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
5.8Mvisits/mo
410.4Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▲ 3.5%
▼ 16.6%
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6-month growth
+14.4%
-24.4%
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Global rank web
#9,859
#106,338
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Avg. last 3 months
5.5M
539.2K
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Bounce rate lower is better
43%
48%
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Pages / visit
4.1
2.4
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Visit duration
3m 56s
1m 44s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 84% · ● Referral 14%
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
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ConsensusContinueOpenAI Codex CLI
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 · 410.4K100K1M10MConsensus · 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 · 410.4KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
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Model
Freemium
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Starting price
$8.99per month · free tier available
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GPT-6-Astra $10GPT-6.1-Sol $2GPT-6-Luna $0.10GPT-Live-1 $0.05/minute+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
CodeText
CodeImagesText
Output
Text
Code
Code
Skill level
Intermediate
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool+1 more
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Research papers summaries
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Terminal
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