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Aider vs Continue
Live matchup data for Aider and Continue: OpenRouter usage, pricing, benchmark scores, and community sentiment, refreshed daily. No verdicts — read the tape.
openrouter tokens/day
usage compares on other signals below
usage — openrouter daily tokens
Usage crossover
usage series pending — daily OpenRouter snapshots build this chart
source: OpenRouter app rankings · daily · 90d · no OpenRouter feed: Aider
through Jul 7, 2026
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Spec & pricing
| Spec | Aider | Continue |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Aider | Continue Dev |
| Homepage | aider.chat | continue.dev |
| GitHub | Aider-AI/aider | continuedev/continue |
| Package | aider-chat | @continuedev/cli |
| Subscription plans | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 47,184 | 34,742 |
| Pkg downloads/day | 28,435 | 650 |
| Latest release | v0.86.0 · 333 d ago | v2.0.0-vscode · 20 d ago |
sources: provider pages · OpenRouter · GitHub · package registries
— = not tracked / not applicable
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Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Aider | Continue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Lite | 26.3%May 23 · aider | — | github.com |
best tracked score per benchmark · scores are not directly comparable across benchmarks
sources linked per row
community pulse
Reddit sentiment
| Signal | Aider | Continue |
|---|---|---|
| Mentions (30d) | 10 | 10 |
| Positive share | 0% | 0% |
| Negative share | 0% | 20% |
| Net sentiment | 0% | -20% |
| 30d trend |
source: Reddit mentions, LLM-classified sentiment · trailing 30d
through Jul 8, 2026
faq
Frequently asked
- Is Aider more used than Continue?
- The Token Tape tracks daily OpenRouter usage for this matchup, but Aider has no usage feed yet, so no usage comparison is published. Pricing, benchmarks, and sentiment compare on the available signals.
- How does Aider pricing compare to Continue?
- Pricing for this pair isn't in the tape yet — plan and price snapshots land with the daily crawl and will appear in the spec table with their sources.
- How do Aider and Continue score on coding benchmarks?
- The tape holds 1 tracked result for Aider and 0 for Continue, but none on a shared benchmark yet — scores are listed side by side without a common baseline.
- Where does this comparison data come from?
- OpenRouter public rankings (usage), provider pricing pages (plans and per-token prices), GitHub and package registries (adoption), public benchmark leaderboards, and Reddit (sentiment). Every stored datum keeps its source URL, and the tape refreshes daily. The Token Tape publishes the data without declaring a winner.
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