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Continue.dev

Open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains connecting to any LLM.

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As an AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, Continue distinguished itself by connecting to any model rather than locking users to one provider: cloud APIs and local models served through Ollama both work. The extensions provide tab autocomplete, chat grounded in the surrounding codebase, inline editing, and customizable prompts and rules, and later releases added agents defined as markdown files that can run as GitHub status checks reviewing pull requests. The entire project is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Its GitHub repository has now been made read-only, with the 2.0.0 release stripping telemetry and authentication and the codebase offered to the community as a foundation for future development, though the VS Code and JetBrains extensions remain available in their marketplaces. It attracted developers who wanted an open, model-agnostic alternative to proprietary coding assistants, and its source continues to serve as a widely studied example of IDE assistant architecture.

Should you use Continue.dev?

Pick it when

Pick Continue.dev when you want open source autocomplete, chat, and inline edits in VS Code or JetBrains wired to your own models, including local ones through Ollama, and you accept running a frozen release or maintaining a fork.

Look elsewhere when

Skip it if you want ongoing updates: the repository went read-only after the 2.0.0 release. Tabby is a self-hosted completion server, Cline is an active open agent for the same IDEs, and Cursor is the commercial option.

Alternatives to Continue.dev

Tabby
Maintained self-hosted completion and repo-grounded chat for VS Code, JetBrains, and Vim, but it needs a server with an 8 GB GPU or Apple Silicon.
Cline
Active Apache-2.0 agent for the same two IDE families that edits files and runs commands with approval, but it centers on agent tasks rather than autocomplete.
Pear AI
Ships a fork of Continue inside a VS Code-based editor as packaged builds, but you move to a separate editor fork whose AI layer traces back to the same read-only upstream.

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