Continue vs Claude Code vs Trae

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
Trae
Competitor 3
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3 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 Trae
trae.ai
Trae is an AI product line with two parts: TraeCode, which it calls a 10x AI coding engineer, and TraeWork, a professional AI work assistant available on the web and as a download.
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
410.4Kvisits/mo
123.5Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 16.6%
▼ 6.8%
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6-month growth
-24.4%
+106.6%
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Global rank web
#106,338
#434
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Avg. last 3 months
539.2K
125.2M
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Bounce rate lower is better
48%
64%
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Pages / visit
2.4
2.2
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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 CodeTrae
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 · 123.5M100K1M10M100M1BContinue · 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 · 123.5MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Free
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
Free
$17per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free trial
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API access
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Plans
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Free FreePro $17/moMax 5x $100/moMax 20x Custom/mo+2 more
Free FreePro $20/moPro+ $60/moUltra $200/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Intermediate
Intermediate
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
3
6
3
Coding
Development
Code reviews
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Agents
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Code analysis
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Code autocompletion
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Debugging
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Community on aitoolstime
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Saves
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Reviews
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Prompts
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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.