Continue vs Consensus vs Visual Studio Code

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
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Visual Studio Code
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Continue: Kilo Code86% GitHub Copilot85% Cline85% Sourcegraph Cody82% Cursor80% Qodo (Formerly Codium)80% CodeRabbit80% Gemini Code Assist78%
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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.
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Competitor Consensus
consensus.app
Scientific answers from peer-reviewed research
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Competitor Visual Studio Code
code.visualstudio.com
Visual Studio Code is a free, open source code editor that runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and now includes built-in AI agents.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
410.4Kvisits/mo
5.8Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 16.6%
▲ 3.5%
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6-month growth
-24.4%
+14.4%
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Global rank web
#106,338
#9,859
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Avg. last 3 months
539.2K
5.5M
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Bounce rate lower is better
48%
43%
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Pages / visit
2.4
4.1
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Visit duration
1m 44s
3m 56s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
● Direct 84% · ● Referral 14%
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ContinueConsensusVisual Studio Code
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 · 5.8M100K1M10MContinue · 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 · 5.8MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Free
Freemium
Free
Starting price
Free
$8.99per month · free tier available
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Free tier
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Capabilities input → output
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CodeText
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CodeText
Output
Code
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Code
Skill level
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Categories
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool+1 more
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
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Coding in VS Code
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