Continue
the configurable, self-hostable option
the right pick when policy says no code leaves the network — endlessly configurable, and correspondingly more work to set up.
continue is an open-source extension for vs code and jetbrains that connects to whatever model endpoint you point it at, including a local ollama instance or an internal deployment. for organisations that cannot send source code to a third party, that is often the only viable option on this list.
configuration is done in files you can commit, so a team can share one assistant setup across the repo — a genuinely good idea that the commercial tools handle less cleanly.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- ai coding assistants
- pricing
- free + your own model costs
- website
- continue.dev
the right pick when policy says no code leaves the network — endlessly configurable, and correspondingly more work to set up.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.
