Continue vs Jules 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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Jules
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Visual Studio Code
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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 Jules
jules.google
An AI coding assistant that works while you sleep sounds like science fiction, but Jules runs continuously in the cloud doing exactly that
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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
280.8Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 16.6%
▼ 27.6%
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6-month growth
-24.4%
-46.5%
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Global rank web
#106,338
#198,101
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Avg. last 3 months
539.2K
435.9K
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Bounce rate lower is better
48%
49%
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Pages / visit
2.4
1.6
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Visit duration
1m 44s
42s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
● Direct 71% · ● Referral 28%
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ContinueJulesVisual Studio Code
0201K402.1K603.1K804.2KContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KJules · 804.2KJules · 742.5KJules · 525.1KJules · 315.3KJules · 476.6KJules · 638.7KJules · 388.1KJules · 280.8K100K1MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KJules · 804.2KJules · 742.5KJules · 525.1KJules · 315.3KJules · 476.6KJules · 638.7KJules · 388.1KJules · 280.8KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Free
Freemium
Free
Starting price
Free
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Free tier
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
Code reviews
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Development
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Testing
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UI testing
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