Continue vs Consensus vs Cursor vs ScienceOS

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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Consensus
Competitor 2
Cursor
Competitor 3
ScienceOS
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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 Consensus
consensus.app
Scientific answers from peer-reviewed research
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Competitor Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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Competitor ScienceOS
scienceos.ai
Researchers waste hours hunting through literature—piecing together fragments from different papers
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
410.4Kvisits/mo
5.8Mvisits/mo
4.5Mvisits/mo
64.9Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 16.6%
▲ 3.5%
▲ 7.8%
▼ 6.2%
6-month growth
-24.4%
+14.4%
-1.8%
+1.2%
Global rank web
#106,338
#9,859
#15,584
#464,304
Avg. last 3 months
539.2K
5.5M
4.4M
68.2K
Bounce rate lower is better
48%
43%
57%
39%
Pages / visit
2.4
4.1
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3.7
Visit duration
1m 44s
3m 56s
1m 36s
1m 37s
Traffic sources
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
● Direct 84% · ● Referral 14%
● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
● Direct 98% · ● Mail 2%
ContinueConsensusCursorScienceOS
01.5M2.9M4.4M5.9MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9K10K100K1M10MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MScienceOS · 79.4KScienceOS · 75.1KScienceOS · 79.7KScienceOS · 64.1KScienceOS · 64.5KScienceOS · 56.4KScienceOS · 70.5KScienceOS · 69.2KScienceOS · 64.9KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Free
Freemium
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Starting price
Free
$8.99per month · free tier available
$20per month · free tier available
€7.25per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
Free FreeAngel €7.25/moTeam €6/moInstitution Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
Text
CodeText
DocumentsText
Output
Code
Text
Code
DataText
Skill level
Advanced
Intermediate
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Categories
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool+1 more
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Research & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Development
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Debugging
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Medical research
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PDF analysis
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Refactoring
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Research papers summaries
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Scientific literature exploration
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Scientific research
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Code documentation
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Literature analysis
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Terminal commands management
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