Continue vs Aider vs Cursor vs Cline

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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Aider
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Cursor
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Cline
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool 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 Aider
aider.chat
AI pair programming in your terminal
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Competitor Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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Competitor Cline
cline.bot
Terminal-first coders get a different kind of AI assistant here
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
410.4Kvisits/mo
317.9Kvisits/mo
4.5Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 16.6%
▼ 15.9%
▲ 7.8%
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6-month growth
-24.4%
-12.7%
-1.8%
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Global rank web
#106,338
#140,509
#15,584
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Avg. last 3 months
539.2K
378.5K
4.4M
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Bounce rate lower is better
48%
48%
57%
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Pages / visit
2.4
2.0
2.4
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Visit duration
1m 44s
55s
1m 36s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 16%
● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
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ContinueAiderCursorCline
01.2M2.3M3.5M4.6MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KAider · 293.8KAider · 277.7KAider · 314.6KAider · 289.1KAider · 364.1KAider · 402KAider · 478.7KAider · 439.5KAider · 378KAider · 317.9KCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5M100K1M10MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KAider · 293.8KAider · 277.7KAider · 314.6KAider · 289.1KAider · 364.1KAider · 402KAider · 478.7KAider · 439.5KAider · 378KAider · 317.9KCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
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Freemium
Free
Starting price
Free
Free
$20per month · free tier available
Free
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Free trial
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
AudioCodeImagesTextWeb pages
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
3
8
7
3
Coding
Refactoring
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Development
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Debugging
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Terminal commands management
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Code testing
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Terminal
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Code documentation
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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.