Continue.dev was acquired and wound down on June 19, 2026. The best alternatives in our library are Cursor, Claude Code, Zed and GitHub Copilot.
Cursor acquired Continue in June 2026 and wound down the standalone product. The final release shipped June 19, 2026, and Continue's cloud data was deleted after July 15. The open-source code stays available, read-only.
Sources: continue.dev
AI-powered code editor built on VS Code with deep integration for code generation, multi-file refactoring, and codebase-aware Q&A.
A terminal-first coding agent from Anthropic that has rapidly become one of the most-used AI coding tools by software engineers.
A high-performance, multiplayer code editor written in Rust, with a strong focus on speed and responsiveness.
AI pair programmer from GitHub/OpenAI that provides code suggestions, chat, and code review directly in your editor.
The most popular open-source, model-agnostic AI coding agent.
OpenAI's command-line agent for code generation and manipulation.
Each tool shows the month we last checked it against the official site. See every change in the AI Tools Changelog, or the archived Continue.dev page.