Open-source AI coding extension for VS Code and JetBrains — bring any model, configure custom rules, share assistants across your team.
Continue is a free, open-source coding assistant that runs inside VS Code or JetBrains and lets you mix and match any model (Claude, GPT, local Llama) with shared team configs.
Continue is the leading open-source alternative to GitHub Copilot and Cursor for engineers who want full control over the model, the prompt, and the data their AI coding tool sees. It installs as a VS Code or JetBrains extension and exposes autocomplete, chat, and agent — but every layer is configurable via YAML and a marketplace of community-built assistants. Continue Hub adds team management, analytics, and shared assistants on a per-seat plan.
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Continue.dev is well-regarded by developers for its open-source transparency, model flexibility, and zero per-seat cost. Users consistently praise the ability to switch between cloud and local models from a single extension. Common positive feedback highlights the VS Code extension's responsiveness and the standards-as-code approach of Continuous AI for PR enforcement. Criticisms center on initial setup complexity compared to turnkey tools like Copilot, occasional latency with local Ollama models on consumer hardware, and the learning curve for writing effective custom markdown checks. Enterprise users in regulated industries value the local execution option for data residency compliance but note that Continuous AI's GitHub-only support limits adoption for teams on GitLab or Bitbucket.
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Continue, Inc. has launched 'Continuous AI' as a positioning and product line in 2026, framing the company around 'quality control for your software factory.' The flagship is source-controlled AI checks that run as native GitHub status checks on every pull request, with pre-built check templates including Anti-Slop, Code Security Review, and Reinventing the Wheel detection.
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