Continue vs Zed vs Aider

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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Zed
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Aider
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Suggested competitors for Continue: Kilo Code86% GitHub Copilot85% Cline85% Sourcegraph Cody82% Cursor80% CodeRabbit80% Qodo (Formerly Codium)80% 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 Zed
zed.dev
Speed meets intelligence
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Competitor Aider
aider.chat
AI pair programming in your terminal
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
410.4Kvisits/mo
1.2Mvisits/mo
317.9Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 16.6%
▼ 18.1%
▼ 15.9%
6-month growth
-24.4%
+26.6%
-12.7%
Global rank web
#106,338
#47,672
#140,509
Avg. last 3 months
539.2K
1.5M
378.5K
Bounce rate lower is better
48%
42%
48%
Pages / visit
2.4
2.8
2.0
Visit duration
1m 44s
1m 56s
55s
Traffic sources
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 18%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 16%
ContinueZedAider
0462K923.9K1.4M1.8MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KZed · 1.1MZed · 966.1KZed · 1.1MZed · 936.1KZed · 1.4MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.8MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.2MAider · 293.8KAider · 277.7KAider · 314.6KAider · 289.1KAider · 364.1KAider · 402KAider · 478.7KAider · 439.5KAider · 378KAider · 317.9K100K1M10MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KZed · 1.1MZed · 966.1KZed · 1.1MZed · 936.1KZed · 1.4MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.8MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.2MAider · 293.8KAider · 277.7KAider · 314.6KAider · 289.1KAider · 364.1KAider · 402KAider · 478.7KAider · 439.5KAider · 378KAider · 317.9KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Free
Freemium
Free
Starting price
Free
Free tier
Free
Free tier
Free trial
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API access
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Plans
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Personal FreePro $10/moBusiness $30/mo
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
AudioCodeImagesTextWeb pages
Output
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
3
5
8
Coding
Development
Debugging
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Git commands
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Code autocompletion
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Code reviews
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Code testing
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Terminal
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Refactoring
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Terminal commands management
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Community on aitoolstime
Rating
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Upvotes
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Saves
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Reviews
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Prompts
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