Continue vs Kimi Code vs Visual Studio Code 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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Kimi Code
Competitor 2
Visual Studio Code
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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 Kimi Code
kimi.com
Writing code means constantly jumping between your editor and browser tabs stuffed with documentation
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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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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
60.1Mvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 16.6%
▲ 52.2%
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6-month growth
-24.4%
+33.8%
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Global rank web
#106,338
#852
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Avg. last 3 months
539.2K
48.3M
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Bounce rate lower is better
48%
37%
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Pages / visit
2.4
3.9
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Visit duration
1m 44s
7m 13s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
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ContinueKimi CodeVisual Studio CodeOpenAI Codex CLI
015M30.1M45.1M60.1MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KKimi Code · 43.3MKimi Code · 38.2MKimi Code · 33.5MKimi Code · 44.9MKimi Code · 48.1MKimi Code · 43MKimi Code · 45.3MKimi Code · 39.5MKimi Code · 60.1M100K1M10M100MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KKimi Code · 43.3MKimi Code · 38.2MKimi Code · 33.5MKimi Code · 44.9MKimi Code · 48.1MKimi Code · 43MKimi Code · 45.3MKimi Code · 39.5MKimi Code · 60.1MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
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Starting price
Free
$15per month · free tier available
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Adagio FreePlus $15/moPro $31/moMax $79/mo+1 more
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GPT-6-Astra $10GPT-6.1-Sol $2GPT-6-Luna $0.10GPT-Live-1 $0.05/minute+1 more
Capabilities input → output
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CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
CodeImagesText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
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Categories
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
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