Zed vs Continue vs Visual Studio Code vs GitHub Copilot CLI

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

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Zed
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Competitor 1
Continue
Competitor 2
Visual Studio Code
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GitHub Copilot CLI
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Zed
zed.dev
Speed meets intelligence
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.
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.
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.
Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
1.2Mvisits/mo
410.4Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
▼ 18.1%
▼ 16.6%
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6-month growth
+26.6%
-24.4%
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Global rank web
#47,672
#106,338
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Avg. last 3 months
1.5M
539.2K
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Bounce rate lower is better
42%
48%
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Pages / visit
2.8
2.4
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Visit duration
1m 56s
1m 44s
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Traffic sources
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 18%
● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
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ZedContinueVisual Studio CodeGitHub Copilot CLI
0462K923.9K1.4M1.8MZed · 1.1MZed · 966.1KZed · 1.1MZed · 936.1KZed · 1.4MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.8MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.2MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4K100K1M10MZed · 1.1MZed · 966.1KZed · 1.1MZed · 936.1KZed · 1.4MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.8MZed · 1.4MZed · 1.2MContinue · 391.5KContinue · 458.8KContinue · 453.4KContinue · 422.2KContinue · 543.1KContinue · 655.7KContinue · 775.3KContinue · 715.2KContinue · 492KContinue · 410.4KNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
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Starting price
Free tier
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Free tier
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Plans
Personal FreePro $10/moBusiness $30/mo
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
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Categories
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Coding
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Traffic figures are third-party estimates for the tool's own domain; tools sharing a domain with a bigger product are not counted. Pricing is captured from each tool's site and may lag.