AI coding assistants · RankedContinue
Continue is an open-source coding assistant delivered as an extension for VS Code and JetBrains editors · continue.dev ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
GitHub Copilot is first at 73%.
GitHub Copilot is first at 80%.
GitHub Copilot is first at 86%.
Why models recommend it
“Continue: A free, open-source assistant for VS Code and JetBrains that allows you to bring your own model keys.”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Prefer self-hosted/local options where possible: Tools like Continue.dev (with local LLMs such as CodeLlama or DeepSeek Coder)”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
“Options like Continue.dev, Aider, or open-source extensions ... let you use free tiers of models”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“If your team is tech-savvy and wants full control: Use Continue, Cline, or Aider”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Continue, over the 20 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 8 | View → | |
| 16 | 4 | View → | |
| 14 | 0 | View → | |
| 11 | 4 | View → | |
| 11 | 0 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 19 of the 20 answers that named Continue and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Fifty-seven of the fifty-seven domain citations in answers naming Continue came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 1 | 0 | 2025-09-04 |
Most recent
- 2025-09-04Instinct blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page continue.dev exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.