Continue

Who it is for

For developers and individuals. It runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux. License: Apache-2.0. It is in the DevOps group.

What you pay

Free plan: The Apache-2.0 license and the homepage say the codebase remains available. A model key, or a local model, is separate. We have not checked model prices. Hosted price: No Continue subscription is listed on the homepage. The homepage is an acquisition notice. Model providers can still bill you. We have not checked those prices. Run it yourself: Easy. The autocomplete docs show an Ollama model on your own computer, and the extension runs in the IDE. There is no Continue server to deploy. The README says the project is not maintained.

How to switch

• Compared with Sourcegraph Cody. Its price on file: The pricing page does not print a Cody price. The Enterprise plan Cody's docs say it runs on starts at $16K a year. Cody ends on January 31, 2027.

  You only get part of: keep a chosen repository out of chat and autocomplete.

  Free alternatives to Sourcegraph Cody·Move from Sourcegraph Cody to Continue

How close is it?

A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.

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  Instead of Sourcegraph Cody9 of 9 checked features. A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.You only get part of: keep a chosen repository out of chat and autocomplete.The docs homepage lists Chat mode for questions about code. The context page includes highlighted code and the active file.The autocomplete guide sets multiline completions to always, auto, or never, and it shows a local Ollama model as well as Codestral. It says a huge chat model is a poor fit for autocomplete.The docs homepage lists Edit mode to modify a section without leaving the current file.The context page says @Files adds a workspace file. The context-provider page also lists @File and a code provider for functions and classes.The prompts guide says a markdown file with invokable set to true becomes a slash command in Chat, Plan, and Agent mode, and in the CLI.The README for the final 2.0.0 release still ships a VS Code extension and a JetBrains plugin. It recommends the CLI instead of the JetBrains plugin. The repository is read-only.The autocomplete guide shows a config that names the provider and the model, including Ollama on the same computer. You pay that provider unless the model is local.The codebase page, which marks @Codebase as deprecated, says a .continueignore file keeps files out of the index and follows .gitignore rules. That is not Cody's switch to drop a whole repository from chat and autocomplete.The docs homepage lists the Continue CLI, cn. The README links the npm package @continuedev/cli and calls 2.0.0 the final release.

Related alternatives

DevOps alternatives

• Free alternatives to Bitbucket
• Free alternatives to Conductor
• Free alternatives to GitHub
• Free alternatives to Jules
• Free alternatives to Ollama Cloud
• Free alternatives to Ona

Free apps in this group

• Aider: Terminal pair programming that commits each edit to git.
• Bugsink: A smaller Sentry-compatible error store.
• Cline: An Apache-2.0 coding agent for VS Code and the terminal. No inline autocomplete.
• cState: A Hugo status page. Incidents are markdown files.
• Cursor: A coding editor with Tab autocomplete and an agent. Free is limited. The code is closed.
• Devin: The desktop editor formerly sold as Windsurf. Free includes Tab. The code is closed.
• Errbit: An older Airbrake-compatible error catcher.
• Forgejo: A community forge, GPL-3.0 since v9.
• Gatus: A health dashboard with a status page in the config file.
• Gitea: A lightweight Git forge.
• GitHub Copilot: GitHub's coding assistant. Free is capped. The code is not public.
• GitLab Community Edition: The MIT edition of GitLab, without EE.
• GlitchTip: Error tracking compatible with Sentry SDKs.
• Highlight: Session replay and errors, with a split license.
• Kener: A status page with incidents, maintenance, and email subscriptions.
• llama.cpp: LLM inference in C and C++. The license is MIT. llama-server speaks an OpenAI-style API.
• Ollama: Run open models on your own computer. The license is MIT.
• OneUptime: Status pages plus monitors, incidents, and on-call.
• OpenCode: A terminal and desktop coding agent that can open a GitHub pull request.
• OpenHands: Agent Canvas, a self-hosted control center for coding agents.
• Radicle: A peer-to-peer code forge.
• SigNoz: Traces, metrics, and logs in one app.
• SourceHut: Git hosting composed of small services.
• Tabby: A self-hosted completion server. Community is free for up to 5 users.
• Uptime Kuma: Uptime checks, with a public status page of those checks.
• vLLM: An Apache-2.0 model server with an OpenAI-compatible API.

Switch guides

• Move from Sourcegraph Cody to Continue

Where we looked

• https://continue.dev/
• https://docs.continue.dev/
• https://docs.continue.dev/customize/deep-dives/autocomplete
• https://docs.continue.dev/ide-extensions/chat/context-selection
• https://docs.continue.dev/customize/deep-dives/prompts
• https://docs.continue.dev/reference/deprecated-codebase
• https://github.com/continuedev/continue
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/continuedev/continue/main/README.md
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/continuedev/continue/main/LICENSE