Continue vs Cursor vs Consensus

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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Cursor
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Consensus
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.
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Competitor Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
Make main Remove
Competitor Consensus
consensus.app
Scientific answers from peer-reviewed research
Make main Remove
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
410.4Kvisits/mo
4.5Mvisits/mo
5.8Mvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 16.6%
▲ 7.8%
▲ 3.5%
6-month growth
-24.4%
-1.8%
+14.4%
Global rank web
#106,338
#15,584
#9,859
Avg. last 3 months
539.2K
4.4M
5.5M
Bounce rate lower is better
48%
57%
43%
Pages / visit
2.4
2.4
4.1
Visit duration
1m 44s
1m 36s
3m 56s
Traffic sources
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
● Direct 84% · ● Referral 14%
ContinueCursorConsensus
01.5M2.9M4.4M5.9MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MConsensus · 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 · 410.4KCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MConsensus · 4.4MConsensus · 4.1MConsensus · 3.9MConsensus · 4MConsensus · 5.1MConsensus · 5.9MConsensus · 5.7MConsensus · 5MConsensus · 5.6MConsensus · 5.8MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Free
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
Free
$20per month · free tier available
$8.99per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
Text
Output
Code
Code
Text
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Intermediate
Categories
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Productivity & OfficeResearch & AnalyticsAI Research PapersAI Research Tool+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
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Code reviews
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Development
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Research
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Research papers
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Search engine
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Academic research
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Debugging
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Literature reviews
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Medical research
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Refactoring
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Research papers summaries
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Scientific research
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Code documentation
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Terminal commands management
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