Continue.dev
Open-source AI coding assistant — discontinued, acquired by Cursor
Overview
Continue.dev was an open-source AI coding extension for VS Code and JetBrains that let developers use any LLM backend — OpenAI, Anthropic, local Ollama models, or any OpenAI-compatible API — with chat, inline edit, autocomplete and an agent mode.
Cursor's parent company, Anysphere, acqui-hired Continue.dev around June 16, 2026. The final release (v2.0.0-vscode) shipped June 19, 2026, and the GitHub repository is now read-only/unmaintained — the code remains available under Apache 2.0 and the extension still installs and runs locally, but there is no active team, support, or roadmap behind it. The hosted Continue Hub cloud service is winding down, with recurring billing disabled and cloud data (history, configs, team settings) scheduled for deletion after July 15, 2026. This entry consolidates what were previously three separate duplicate listings for the same product.
Pricing
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ASEAN Perspective
Continue.dev in Southeast Asia
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Note: Continue.dev is no longer actively maintained.
Continue.dev was a leading open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains, letting developers plug in any model — cloud APIs or fully local LLMs via Ollama — rather than being locked into a single vendor's backend.
As of June 2026, the product has been discontinued: Cursor's parent company acqui-hired the team, shipped a final release, and archived the repository as unmaintained. The hosted Continue Hub cloud service is winding down, with cloud data scheduled for deletion after July 15, 2026. The open-source code (Apache 2.0) still works locally for anyone who wants to keep using it as-is, but there is no active support, security patching, or roadmap. New users should look at actively maintained alternatives.
What people say
34,000 GitHub stars and a Y Combinator pedigree didn't save Continue.dev from becoming a line item in an acquirer's changelog. Developers picked it precisely because it wasn't a subscription — bring your own API key, point it at GPT, Claude, or a local Ollama model, and keep ownership of the workflow. Reviewers on Dev.to and comparison sites consistently flagged the same trade-off: best-in-class local-model support and enough flexibility to feel close to irreplaceable, offset by a setup process that made newcomers hand-configure API keys and context providers before the assistant did anything useful.
Then came June 16, 2026: Cursor's parent company, Anysphere, acqui-hired the team, and the homepage collapsed to a single line — "Continue has been acquired by Cursor." The irony wasn't lost on the community; Continue existed as the open alternative to exactly the paid, closed IDE that just absorbed it. One widely shared Hacker News comment summed up the mood: when the tool you depend on is a venture-funded product, its future is a function of someone else's cap table, not your workflow.
Practically, nothing broke overnight — the extension still installs, and the Apache 2.0 code is there to fork. But the repo is now read-only, new model integrations depend on community forks going forward, and Continue Hub's cloud data (history, team configs) is scheduled for deletion after July 15, 2026. Anyone still relying on it should treat this as end-of-life, not a pause.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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