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Continue vs Roo Code
Live matchup data for Continue and Roo Code: OpenRouter usage, pricing, benchmark scores, and community sentiment, refreshed daily. No verdicts — read the tape.
usage — openrouter daily tokens
Usage crossover
current leader: Roo Code
usage series pending — daily OpenRouter snapshots build this chart
source: OpenRouter app rankings · daily · 90d
through Jul 7, 2026
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Spec & pricing
| Spec | Continue | Roo Code |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Continue Dev | Roo Code Inc. |
| Homepage | continue.dev | roocode.com |
| GitHub | continuedev/continue | RooCodeInc/Roo-Code |
| Package | @continuedev/cli | — |
| Subscription plans | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 34,742 | 24,309 |
| Pkg downloads/day | 650 | — |
| Latest release | v2.0.0-vscode · 20 d ago | v3.54.0 · 54 d ago |
sources: provider pages · OpenRouter · GitHub · package registries
— = not tracked / not applicable
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Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Continue | Roo Code | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
no benchmark results tracked yet for this pair — boards ingest daily | |||
best tracked score per benchmark · scores are not directly comparable across benchmarks
sources linked per row
community pulse
Reddit sentiment
| Signal | Continue | Roo Code |
|---|---|---|
| Mentions (30d) | 10 | 10 |
| Positive share | 0% | 10% |
| Negative share | 20% | 50% |
| Net sentiment | -20% | -40% |
| 30d trend |
source: Reddit mentions, LLM-classified sentiment · trailing 30d
through Jul 8, 2026
faq
Frequently asked
- Is Continue more used than Roo Code?
- As of Jul 7, 2026, Continue shows 1.5B tokens/day through OpenRouter-tracked apps and Roo Code shows 5.8B tokens/day through OpenRouter-tracked apps. The chart above tracks the full daily series with every lead change marked.
- How does Continue pricing compare to Roo Code?
- 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 Continue and Roo Code score on coding benchmarks?
- No benchmark results are tracked for either yet; public boards are ingested daily and results appear here as they land.
- 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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