Best Continue alternatives
7 tools developers use instead of Continue, ranked by popularity. 7 offer a free plan and 4 are open source. Updated October 2026.
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Open-source VS Code extension that turns the editor into an autonomous coding agent, using your own API key and an approval gate before each action.
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Open-source agentic coding platform with five agent modes, support for 500+ models at no markup, an MCP marketplace, and parallel subagents.
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VS Code extension bringing GPT-4o and the o1 model family into the editor for chat, code generation, and commit messages. Around 1,300 GitHub stars.
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Emacs minor mode that lets you call ChatGPT, Claude, LLaMA, DALL-E, or Stable Diffusion directly from org-mode blocks.