20 Continue.dev alternatives
Continue.dev: Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal; acquired by Cursor in 2026 and no longer maintained. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Open Source, Local Models and CLI, ranked by how much they have in common with Continue.dev.
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Cognition AI
Windsurf Plugins (formerly Codeium) add AI autocomplete and chat to JetBrains, VS Code, Vim, Visual Studio, Jupyter and Eclipse.
Also: Autocomplete, JetBrains, VS Code
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An open-source coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains that plans before it edits and asks before it acts.
Also: JetBrains, Open Source, VS Code
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JetBrains
JetBrains AI Assistant adds project-aware chat, code completion and agents like Junie, Claude Agent and Codex to JetBrains IDEs.
Also: Autocomplete, JetBrains, Local Models
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Open-source local inference server that profiles your hardware, picks models that fit, and points your coding agent at them — free, private and offline.
Also: CLI, Local Models, Open Source
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Advait Paliwal
Open-source AI research agent with a CLI and a local science workbench for deep literature review, paper retrieval and replication planning.
Also: CLI, Local Models, Open Source
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System-wide AI autocomplete for macOS that finishes your sentences in any app — fully on-device, no account, no cloud.
Also: Autocomplete, Local Models
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AWS
Amazon Q Developer (formerly CodeWhisperer) is AWS's AI coding assistant; its IDE plugins end support in April 2027 in favour of Kiro.
Also: Autocomplete, CLI
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Run open language models on your own machine with a single command — no cloud, no API key, no data leaving the laptop.
Also: CLI, Local Models
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Unsloth AI
Open-source desktop app to run, serve and fine-tune text, image, video and audio models entirely on your own machine.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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Open-source inference engine that runs LLMs, vision and speech models fully on-device — no API keys, no cloud calls, from Swift to Godot.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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Cactus Compute, Inc.
8-29 MB automation models that run on phones, wearables and microcontrollers — tool calling, structured extraction and embeddings, fully offline.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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A self-hosted, feature-rich chat interface that puts a polished front end on Ollama and any OpenAI-compatible API.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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Menlo Research
An open-source, offline-first ChatGPT alternative that runs models on your own computer.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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Osaurus, Inc.
Native macOS harness for AI agents — any model, persistent memory, sandboxed execution and cryptographic identity, fully offline and open source.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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An open-source desktop AI client that talks to every major provider and your local models from one window.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal — 500+ models at provider cost, task-specific modes, parallel agents in isolated git worktrees.
Also: CLI, Open Source
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Agentic AI Foundation
Open-source AI agent from the Agentic AI Foundation — a native desktop app, CLI and API that runs tasks locally with 70+ MCP extensions.
Also: CLI, Open Source
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Abhishek Iyer
A local, keyboard-driven diff viewer built for the huge changes coding agents produce - and it remembers what you have already seen.
Also: CLI, Open Source
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Mario Zechner
Minimal, MIT-licensed terminal coding agent that adapts to your workflow via TypeScript extensions.
Also: CLI, Open Source