Compare AI Coding Tools

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Comparison	Continue✓ Open-source, model-agnostic AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains Open Source	Cursor✓ The AI-native code editor with $1B+ ARR, 25+ models, and background agents on dedicated VMs Freemium	GitHub Copilot✓ AI pair programmer built into GitHub and popular IDEs Freemium	Ollama✓ Run AI models locally with Docker-like simplicity, 200+ model families, and full API compatibility Open Source
Category	VS Code Extension	AI-Powered IDE	VS Code Extension	AI Coding CLI
Pricing	Free (Open Source): $0	Hobby: $0/month Pro: $20/month Pro+: $60/month Ultra: $200/month Teams: $40/user/month	Free: $0/month Pro: $10/month Pro+: $39/month Business: $19/user/month Enterprise: $39/user/month	Ollama (Local): Free Ollama Turbo: $20/month
AI Models	Any LLM via APIOpenAIAnthropicGeminiLocal (Ollama/LM Studio)+1 more	Claude Opus 4.5Claude Sonnet 4.5Claude Sonnet 4.6GPT-5GPT-5.2+4 more	GitHub-managed frontier model routingOpenAI model families (plan and feature dependent)Anthropic model families including Opus/Sonnet tiers on supported plansAdditional premium model options on paid plans	Qwen2.5-Coder (88.4% HumanEval)DeepSeek-Coder V2Codestral (Mistral)Qwen3-CoderGPT-OSS (OpenAI, 20B/120B)+4 more
Context Window	Depends on chosen model	Up to 272K tokens (codebase-wide context via RAG indexing)	Context-aware suggestions based on open files, tabs, and indexed repositories; token limits not publicly documented	Model dependent (varies by model architecture and quantization)
Capabilities	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Multi File	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Agentic Mode Multi File Voice Input	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Multi File	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Documentation Chat Agentic Mode
Platforms	macOSLinuxWindows	macOSWindowsLinux	macOSLinuxWindowsWeb	macOSWindowsLinuxDocker
Languages	All languages supported by chosen model	All languages supported by VS Code	JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaC++C#+7 more	Any (local inference for all model-supported languages)
Open Source	Yes	No	No	Yes
GitHub Stars	30,200	N/A	N/A	155,000Most
Users	N/A	1M+ daily active users	Not disclosed	2.5M weekly downloads
Rating	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
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