Continue vs Citely vs GitHub Copilot 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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Citely
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GitHub Copilot
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Cline
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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 Citely
citely.ai
Academic citation fraud poses real problems for researchers who unknowingly reference fabricated papers
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Competitor GitHub Copilot
github.com
Your AI pair programmer that actually knows the 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
62.9Kvisits/mo
637.9Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 16.6%
▲ 3.3%
▲ 3.7%
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6-month growth
-24.4%
+26.5%
+19.3%
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Global rank web
#106,338
#561,691
#49
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Avg. last 3 months
539.2K
59.2K
629.7M
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Bounce rate lower is better
48%
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Pages / visit
2.4
2.2
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Visit duration
1m 44s
24s
6m 26s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
● Direct 77% · ● Referral 23%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
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ContinueCitelyGitHub CopilotCline
0159.5M318.9M478.4M637.9MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KCitely · 52KCitely · 44.1KCitely · 49.7KCitely · 37.2KCitely · 50.1KCitely · 53.8KCitely · 60.8KCitely · 62.9KGitHub Copilot · 484.3MGitHub Copilot · 504MGitHub Copilot · 542.6MGitHub Copilot · 534.8MGitHub Copilot · 634.3MGitHub Copilot · 631MGitHub Copilot · 636.1MGitHub Copilot · 615.2MGitHub Copilot · 637.9M10K100K1M10M100M1BContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KCitely · 52KCitely · 44.1KCitely · 49.7KCitely · 37.2KCitely · 50.1KCitely · 53.8KCitely · 60.8KCitely · 62.9KGitHub Copilot · 484.3MGitHub Copilot · 504MGitHub Copilot · 542.6MGitHub Copilot · 534.8MGitHub Copilot · 634.3MGitHub Copilot · 631MGitHub Copilot · 636.1MGitHub Copilot · 615.2MGitHub Copilot · 637.9MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
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Starting price
Free
$9per month
$4per month · free tier available
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Trial $9Monthly $19/moYearly $14/moBeliever $347
Free FreeTeam $4/moEnterprise $21/mo
Open Source CustomEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
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CodeText
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Code
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Skill level
Advanced
Beginner-friendly
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Categories
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Code Review+1 more
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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