Continue

Open-source AI coding assistant, shut down after Cursor acquisition

TOP SCORE™

23/100

#10 of 10 AI Coding Assistants

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Web Authority14
  • 3 web authority signals
  • average citing-domain authority 35
Expert Assessment36
  • 100% of the category rubric covered
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Why Continue ranks #10

Continue ranks #10 of 10 ai coding assistants with a TOP SCORE of 23.

The category leader scores 73, a gap of 50 points.

That is 23 points below the category average of 46.

Its strongest component is Expert Assessment at 36; its weakest is Web Authority at 14.

No usable evidence was found for External Reputation, AI Authority, TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.

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Company information

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Description
Continue was an open-source, model-agnostic AI coding assistant delivered as a VS Code extension, JetBrains plugin and CLI, letting developers plug in any model and pull context from internal tools such as Jira and Confluence. Its pitch centred on data control and transparency for privacy-sensitive and regulated teams. As of the vendor's homepage retrieved 2026-08-31, Continue has been acquired by Cursor, subscriptions have ended and recurring billing is disabled; only the Apache 2.0 codebase remains, reportedly read-only and unmaintained.
Products
VS Code extension, JetBrains plugin, Continue CLI, Continue Hub (Solo / Teams / Enterprise tiers), Models Add-On
Markets
Individual developers, SMB, Enterprise, Regulated and privacy-sensitive organisations
Integrations
Jira, Confluence, Third-party and self-hosted AI models (model-agnostic), VS Code, JetBrains IDEs
Pricing
Not published · free tier: Free trial of the Models Add-On allowing 50 chat requests and 2,000 autocomplete requests pricing page ↗
Regulatory
Apache 2.0 licensed; codebase remains public. Ownership now traces to Cursor and, per the reported SpaceX transaction, to SpaceX. Procurement and data-residency approvals previously granted to Continue should be re-run: the owning entity has changed and the user-data deletion deadline has passed.
Official website
https://continue.dev
Last verified
31 Aug 2026

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  • Category leader73
  • Category average46
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