Continue vs GitHub Copilot vs Gemini vs OpenAI Codex CLI

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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GitHub Copilot
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Gemini
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OpenAI Codex CLI
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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 GitHub Copilot
github.com
Your AI pair programmer that actually knows the codebase
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Competitor Gemini
gemini.google.com
Google's most capable AI model
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Competitor OpenAI Codex CLI
developers.openai.com
OpenAI Codex CLI brings the Codex coding agent to the terminal and to scripts.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
410.4Kvisits/mo
637.9Mvisits/mo
2.6Bvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 16.6%
▲ 3.7%
▼ 2.6%
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6-month growth
-24.4%
+19.3%
+0.8%
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Global rank web
#106,338
#49
#17
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Avg. last 3 months
539.2K
629.7M
2.7B
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Bounce rate lower is better
48%
36%
28%
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Pages / visit
2.4
5.9
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Visit duration
1m 44s
6m 26s
7m 01s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
● Direct 94% · ● Referral 4%
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ContinueGitHub CopilotGeminiOpenAI Codex CLI
0725.8M1.5B2.2B2.9BContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KGitHub Copilot · 484.3MGitHub Copilot · 504MGitHub Copilot · 542.6MGitHub Copilot · 534.8MGitHub Copilot · 634.3MGitHub Copilot · 631MGitHub Copilot · 636.1MGitHub Copilot · 615.2MGitHub Copilot · 637.9MGemini · 1.4BGemini · 1.7BGemini · 2.1BGemini · 2.1BGemini · 2.6BGemini · 2.8BGemini · 2.9BGemini · 2.9BGemini · 2.7BGemini · 2.6B100K1M10M100M1B10BContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KGitHub Copilot · 484.3MGitHub Copilot · 504MGitHub Copilot · 542.6MGitHub Copilot · 534.8MGitHub Copilot · 634.3MGitHub Copilot · 631MGitHub Copilot · 636.1MGitHub Copilot · 615.2MGitHub Copilot · 637.9MGemini · 1.4BGemini · 1.7BGemini · 2.1BGemini · 2.1BGemini · 2.6BGemini · 2.8BGemini · 2.9BGemini · 2.9BGemini · 2.7BGemini · 2.6BNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
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Starting price
Free
$4per month · free tier available
$4.99per month · free tier available
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Free FreeTeam $4/moEnterprise $21/mo
Free FreeGoogle AI Plus $4.99/moGoogle AI Pro $19.99/moGoogle AI Ultra 5x $99.99/mo+1 more
GPT-6-Astra $10GPT-6.1-Sol $2GPT-6-Luna $0.10GPT-Live-1 $0.05/minute+1 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
TextCode
CodeText
AudioTextImagesDocumentsCode
TextImagesCode
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Code
Code
VideoTextImagesCodeAudio
Code
Skill level
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Intermediate
Beginner-friendly
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Code Review+1 more
Chatbots & CompanionsDevelopment & CodeEducation & LearningImage Editing+27 more
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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PDF analysis
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Video generation
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Writing
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