OpenRouter vs Cursor vs Continue vs GitHub Copilot

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

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OpenRouter
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Competitor 1
Cursor
Competitor 2
Continue
Competitor 3
GitHub Copilot
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool OpenRouter
openrouter.ai
Every model, one endpoint
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Competitor Cursor
cursor.sh
Code editor that actually understands your codebase
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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
github.com
Your AI pair programmer that actually knows the codebase
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
22Mvisits/mo
4.5Mvisits/mo
410.4Kvisits/mo
637.9Mvisits/mo
MoM change
▲ 14.6%
▲ 7.8%
▼ 16.6%
▲ 3.7%
6-month growth
+39.6%
-1.8%
-24.4%
+19.3%
Global rank web
#2,023
#15,584
#106,338
#49
Avg. last 3 months
19.5M
4.4M
539.2K
629.7M
Bounce rate lower is better
32%
57%
48%
36%
Pages / visit
7.7
2.4
2.4
5.9
Visit duration
6m 13s
1m 36s
1m 44s
6m 26s
Traffic sources
● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
● Referral 80% · ● Mail 13%
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
● Direct 83% · ● Referral 15%
OpenRouterCursorContinueGitHub Copilot
0159.5M318.9M478.4M637.9MOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KGitHub Copilot · 484.3MGitHub Copilot · 504MGitHub Copilot · 542.6MGitHub Copilot · 534.8MGitHub Copilot · 634.3MGitHub Copilot · 631MGitHub Copilot · 636.1MGitHub Copilot · 615.2MGitHub Copilot · 637.9M100K1M10M100M1BOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MCursor · 3.8MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.3MCursor · 4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.4MCursor · 4.6MCursor · 4.5MCursor · 4.2MCursor · 4.5MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KGitHub Copilot · 484.3MGitHub Copilot · 504MGitHub Copilot · 542.6MGitHub Copilot · 534.8MGitHub Copilot · 634.3MGitHub Copilot · 631MGitHub Copilot · 636.1MGitHub Copilot · 615.2MGitHub Copilot · 637.9MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Free
Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
$20per month · free tier available
Free
$4per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plan $20.0 $20/moEnterprise $0/mo
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Free FreeTeam $4/moEnterprise $21/mo
Capabilities input → output
Input
VideoTextImagesAudio
CodeText
CodeText
TextCode
Output
VideoTextImagesAudio
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Intermediate
Categories
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI AgentAI Code Review+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 0 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
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Code reviews
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Development
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LLM gateway
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Agents
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Debugging
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Large language models
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Refactoring
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Agent management
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Code documentation
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LLM comparison
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Terminal commands management
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Prompts
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