Available worldwide
What is Continue?
Open-source coding agent for developers. Acquired by Cursor in 2024; open-source codebase remains freely available.
Continue pricing
We don't have Continue's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
Open-source, no cost
What Continue does
The capabilities that matter for ai coding assistants, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Form
- CLI agent
- Autonomy level
- Agentic
- Editor / surface support
- -
- Model source
- -
- Self-hostable / air-gapped
- ✓
- Codebase context
- -
- Multi-file edits
- -
- Runs commands / tools
- -
- Zero-data-retention option
- -
- Enterprise controls
- -
- Language coverage
- -
- Pricing model
- -
- Open-source client
- OSS
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Self-hosted
Continue alternatives
Other ai coding assistants we track, ranked by the same independent score.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Continue, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 29 | 0.19 | 5.4 | ✓ |
| Github Stars | 86 | 0.03 | 2.5 | ✓ |
| Github Activity | 19 | 0.10 | 2.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.10 | 0.0 | - |
| Release Cadence | 0 | 0.06 | 0.0 | - |
| Security Posture | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Package Downloads | 0 | 0.15 | 0.0 | - |
| Stackoverflow Activity | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Activity
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Commits last 30d | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-08-01 · 65% |
Adoption
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Github stars | 35,256 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"form":"cli_agent","autonomy":"agentic","oss_client":"oss","self_hostable":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
Language
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Primary | TypeScript | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 90% |
License
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Spdx | Apache-2.0 | highsource · 2026-08-01 · 95% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | {"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]} | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |