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What is Continue?

Who It's For

Continue is for developers, from individuals to large companies, seeking AI help to code faster. It's ideal for those valuing flexibility, choosing their own AI models, and needing secure code and data. Teams can build shared AI tools, and enterprises get full control.

What You Get

You get an AI assistant in your IDE (VS Code, JetBrains). It offers instant code suggestions, a chat for code questions, and quick editing. You can also use "agents" for complex, multi-step tasks like reviewing code or writing tests.

How It Works

Continue integrates as an IDE extension. Connect it to various AI models, local or cloud. These models understand your code and provide help. Customize its behavior with your own rules and prompts, ensuring the AI works as you need, keeping your data private.

Features & Capabilities

⚙️ Core AI Development Features

Chat-based AI Assistant

Get explanations, generate code, and iterate on solutions conversationally without leaving your IDE.

Code Editing Assistance

Highlight a section of code and describe quick changes for the AI to implement directly in your IDE.

Inline Autocompletion

Receive real-time code suggestions as you type directly within your VS Code or JetBrains environment.

Agentic Workflow Review

Review AI agent decisions in real time and approve steps within your IDE or CLI.

🛠️ Customization & Extensibility

Flexible Model Integration

Use any AI model, including open-source and proprietary, without vendor lock-in or usage limits.

Customizable Rules Engine

Define your own rules for various development tasks like PR reviews, security, Docker, Rust, React, and Pandas.

Integration with MCP Tools

Tap into community or custom MCP tools like Linear, GitLab, Playwright, Asana, and Atlassian.

Contextual Awareness

Leverage your codebase, documentation, GitLab issues, Confluence pages, and other files as context for AI agents.

🚀 Automated Workflows

Asynchronous AI Agents

Trigger automated AI workflows based on events, such as automatically reviewing pull requests or drafting documentation updates.

Custom AI Code Agents

Build and deploy custom AI coding agents tailored to your specific development stack and needs.

🔒 Team & Enterprise Control

Centralized Agent Management

Manage and keep your team’s AI code assistants tailored to your stack and automatically up to date.

Secure Credential Management

Centrally manage API keys and other secrets with a transparent authentication layer, ensuring data security.

Granular Access Control

Control which models, rules, and MCP tools are allowed for use by explicitly enabling or blocking them for your team.

Enterprise Data Platform

Utilize your own data to track agent performance in real situations and optimize context engineering.

Screenshots & Demo

See Continue in action with screenshots and video demonstrations

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Customizable AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains

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Real-World Use Cases

Accelerating Individual Coding with Customizable AI Assistants

Individual developers often seek ways to boost productivity and maintain control over their tools. Continue offers an open-source, model-flexible AI coding assistant integrated into popular IDEs, providing intelligent autocomplete, in-context chat, and code editing to accelerate development while ensuring data privacy and full customization.

Industry: Software Development • User Type: Individual Developer

Standardized AI-Powered Development for Teams

Development teams need to standardize tools and workflows to ensure consistency and security across projects. Continue enables teams to build and share custom AI coding agents with centralized configurations and secure credential management, allowing for collaborative efficiency while maintaining oversight of approved models and data.

Industry: B2B SaaS • User Type: Development Team

Building Secure and Scalable AI Development Infrastructure for Enterprises

Enterprises require robust, secure, and integrated AI solutions to enhance their software development lifecycle at scale. Continue provides the AI infrastructure for organization-wide deployment of custom coding agents, ensuring flexible integration, protection of proprietary data, and centralized governance over models, rules, and permissions to minimize vendor lock-in.

Industry: Enterprise Software • User Type: CTO

Automating Complex Software Development Tasks with Autonomous Agents

Developers frequently spend significant time on repetitive or multi-step tasks such as writing unit tests or reviewing pull requests. Continue's autonomous Agent mode allows for triggering AI workflows based on events and performing complex tasks like generating comprehensive unit tests or drafting documentation updates, significantly boosting efficiency and code quality within the IDE.

Industry: Software Development • User Type: Software Engineer

Frequently Asked Questions

Need more information?

For specific questions about Continue, pricing, or technical support, please contact the Continue team directly through their official website.

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Specifications

Available via:

Browser

API

Browser

Cloud

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Built for:

Individual

Startup

Enterprise

Complexity:

Expert

Advanced technical expertise needed

Pricing Plans

Solo

Free plan with basic features

Free

Create and share custom AI code agents and building blocks
Use your code agents with our open-source VS Code and JetBrains extensions
Bring your own compute and LLMs or bring your own API keys for commercial models
Create public agents in your organization and invite your entire team to use them

Team

Best for growing teams

$10

/monthly

Includes all features from the Solo plan
Centrally manage private AI code agents tailored to your team's stack, keeping them up to date automatically
Govern the blocks and agents that can be used by your developers with an allow / block list
Protect org secrets with our authentication layer and managed proxy that lets members use but not view your API keys

Enterprise

Custom solutions for enterprises

Custom

pricing

Includes all features from the Solo & Team plans
Enterprise onboarding, training, and support to roll out to your entire organization
Authenticate with our enterprise-grade Single Sign-On using any IdP that supports either SAML or OIDC protocols
Use our on-premises data plane to separate it from the control plane, ensuring that code and sensitive data remain in your own environment

✓ Free plan • ✓ Plans from $10 / monthly • ✓ Enterprise options

Integrations

Jira

GitHub

VS Code

JetBrains

Ollama

OpenAI

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