Zed vs OpenAI Codex CLI vs Continue

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

Your tool
Zed
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Competitor 1
OpenAI Codex CLI
Competitor 2
Continue
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for Zed: Cursor88% GitHub Copilot82% Visual Studio Code82% Claude Code80% Windsurf78% Google Antigravity76% Qoder74% Aider72%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Zed
zed.dev
Speed meets intelligence
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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 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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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
1.2Mvisits/mo
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410.4Kvisits/mo
MoM change
▼ 18.1%
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▼ 16.6%
6-month growth
+26.6%
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-24.4%
Global rank web
#47,672
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#106,338
Avg. last 3 months
1.5M
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539.2K
Bounce rate lower is better
42%
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48%
Pages / visit
2.8
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2.4
Visit duration
1m 56s
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1m 44s
Traffic sources
● Direct 80% · ● Referral 18%
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● Direct 93% · ● Referral 6%
ZedOpenAI Codex CLIContinue
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
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Starting price
Free tier
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Free tier
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Free trial
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API access
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Plans
Personal FreePro $10/moBusiness $30/mo
GPT-6-Astra $10GPT-6.1-Sol $2GPT-6-Luna $0.10GPT-Live-1 $0.05/minute+1 more
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Capabilities input → output
Input
CodeText
CodeImagesText
CodeText
Output
Code
Code
Code
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Coding Assistant
Development & CodeAI Code ReviewAI Coding Assistant
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
5
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Coding
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Code autocompletion
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Code reviews
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Debugging
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Git commands
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