LM Studio vs Continue vs GitHub Copilot CLI vs Ellipsis

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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LM Studio
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Continue
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GitHub Copilot CLI
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool LM Studio
lmstudio.ai
LM Studio is a desktop application for running large language models on your own computer, and its Bionic release adds an agent for work and code.
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Competitor 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 CLI
github.com
It reads, writes and runs code, works directly with your issues and pull requests, and carries a task from planning to merged code.
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Competitor Ellipsis
ellipsis.dev
Ellipsis is a managed cloud platform for running coding agents.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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410.4Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▼ 16.6%
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6-month growth
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-24.4%
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Global rank web
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#106,338
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Avg. last 3 months
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539.2K
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Bounce rate lower is better
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48%
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Pages / visit
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2.4
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Visit duration
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1m 44s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
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LM StudioContinueGitHub Copilot CLIEllipsis
0193.8K387.7K581.5K775.3KContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4K100K1MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
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Capabilities input → output
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AudioCodeText
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Skill level
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Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant+2 more
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Code Review+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
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Large language models
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