Continue vs Claude Code vs Layercode vs OpenAI Codex CLI

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

Your tool
Continue
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Competitor 1
Claude Code
Competitor 2
LLayercode
Competitor 3
OpenAI Codex CLI
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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.
Competitor Claude Code
claude.com
Every plan tier hits usage limits
Competitor LLayercode
layercode.com
A developer building a telehealth app needs voice agents that respond instantly during patient consultations
Competitor OpenAI Codex CLI
developers.openai.com
OpenAI Codex CLI brings the Codex coding agent to the terminal and to scripts.
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
410.4Kvisits/mo
123.5Mvisits/mo
548visits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 16.6%
▼ 6.8%
▼ 75.1%
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6-month growth
-24.4%
+106.6%
-96.0%
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Global rank web
#106,338
#434
#6,604,519
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Avg. last 3 months
539.2K
125.2M
1.6K
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Bounce rate lower is better
48%
64%
36%
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Pages / visit
2.4
2.2
1.0
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Visit duration
1m 44s
2m 36s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
● Direct 82% · ● Referral 15%
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ContinueClaude CodeLayercodeOpenAI Codex CLI
035M69.9M104.9M139.9MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KClaude Code · 19.2MClaude Code · 19.5MClaude Code · 35.8MClaude Code · 59.8MClaude Code · 139.9MClaude Code · 133.1MClaude Code · 119.5MClaude Code · 132.6MClaude Code · 123.5MLayercode · 6.8KLayercode · 21.9KLayercode · 13.7KLayercode · 4.3KLayercode · 3KLayercode · 2.1KLayercode · 2.2KLayercode · 5481001K10K100K1M10M100M1BContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KClaude Code · 19.2MClaude Code · 19.5MClaude Code · 35.8MClaude Code · 59.8MClaude Code · 139.9MClaude Code · 133.1MClaude Code · 119.5MClaude Code · 132.6MClaude Code · 123.5MLayercode · 6.8KLayercode · 21.9KLayercode · 13.7KLayercode · 4.3KLayercode · 3KLayercode · 2.1KLayercode · 2.2KLayercode · 548Nov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Free
Freemium
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Starting price
Free
$17per month · free tier available
$250per month · free tier available
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Free FreePro $17/moMax 5x $100/moMax 20x Custom/mo+2 more
Developer FreePro $250/moEnterprise Custom
GPT-6-Astra $10GPT-6.1-Sol $2GPT-6-Luna $0.10GPT-Live-1 $0.05/minute+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
AudioText
CodeImagesText
Output
Code
Code
AudioText
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Intermediate
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
3
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