Continue vs OpenAI Codex CLI vs Visual Studio Code vs CodingFleet

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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OpenAI Codex CLI
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Visual Studio Code
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CodingFleet
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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 OpenAI Codex CLI
developers.openai.com
OpenAI Codex CLI brings the Codex coding agent to the terminal and to scripts.
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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 CodingFleet
codingfleet.com
You get three uses as a guest before CodingFleet asks you to buy credits
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
410.4Kvisits/mo
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138.8Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 16.6%
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▲ 37.7%
6-month growth
-24.4%
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+130.9%
Global rank web
#106,338
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#323,656
Avg. last 3 months
539.2K
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101.4K
Bounce rate lower is better
48%
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46%
Pages / visit
2.4
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1.8
Visit duration
1m 44s
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35s
Traffic sources
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
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● Direct 88% · ● Referral 10%
ContinueOpenAI Codex CLIVisual Studio CodeCodingFleet
0193.8K387.7K581.5K775.3KContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KCodingFleet · 77.7KCodingFleet · 70.4KCodingFleet · 85.1KCodingFleet · 60.1KCodingFleet · 65KCodingFleet · 69.2KCodingFleet · 64.4KCodingFleet · 100.9KCodingFleet · 138.8K10K100K1MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KCodingFleet · 77.7KCodingFleet · 70.4KCodingFleet · 85.1KCodingFleet · 60.1KCodingFleet · 65KCodingFleet · 69.2KCodingFleet · 64.4KCodingFleet · 100.9KCodingFleet · 138.8KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
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$7per month · free tier available
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GPT-6-Astra $10GPT-6.1-Sol $2GPT-6-Luna $0.10GPT-Live-1 $0.05/minute+1 more
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Free FreePro $7/moUnlimited $25/moElite $45/mo+2 more
Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeImagesText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
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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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