Continue vs Cursor vs OpenRouter vs Cline

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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OpenRouter
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Cline
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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 Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
Competitor OpenRouter
openrouter.ai
Every model, one endpoint
Competitor Cline
cline.bot
Terminal-first coders get a different kind of AI assistant here
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
410.4Kvisits/mo
4.5Mvisits/mo
22Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 16.6%
▲ 7.8%
▲ 14.6%
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6-month growth
-24.4%
-1.8%
+39.6%
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Global rank web
#106,338
#15,584
#2,023
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Avg. last 3 months
539.2K
4.4M
19.5M
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Bounce rate lower is better
48%
57%
32%
0%
Pages / visit
2.4
2.4
7.7
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Visit duration
1m 44s
1m 36s
6m 13s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
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ContinueCursorOpenRouterCline
05.5M11M16.5M22MContinue · 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 · 4.5MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22M100K1M10M100MContinue · 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 · 4.5MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Free
Freemium
Freemium
Free
Starting price
Free
$20per month · free tier available
Free tier
Free
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
TextVideoImagesAudio
TextCode
Output
Code
Code
VideoTextImagesAudio
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
3
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11
Development
Coding
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Code reviews
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Terminal commands management
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LLM gateway
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Coding in VS Code
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Debugging
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Large language models
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MCP
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Shell commands
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Terminal
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