Compare AI Coding Tools

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Comparison	Ollama✓ Run AI models locally with Docker-like simplicity, 200+ model families, and full API compatibility Open Source	Continue✓ Open-source, model-agnostic AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains Open Source	DeepSeek Coder✓ Open-source MoE coding model (V2) with 128K context Open Source
Category	AI Coding CLI	VS Code Extension	Open Source Model
Pricing	Ollama (Local): Free Ollama Turbo: $20/month	Free (Open Source): $0	Open weights (self-hosted): $0 DeepSeek API (V3.2 chat/reasoner): Pay-as-you-go
AI Models	Qwen2.5-Coder (88.4% HumanEval)DeepSeek-Coder V2Codestral (Mistral)Qwen3-CoderGPT-OSS (OpenAI, 20B/120B)+4 more	Any LLM via APIOpenAIAnthropicGeminiLocal (Ollama/LM Studio)+1 more	DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Instruct (236B / 21B active)DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct (16B / 2.4B active)
Context Window	Model dependent (varies by model architecture and quantization)	Depends on chosen model	128K tokens
Capabilities	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Documentation Chat Agentic Mode	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Multi File	Code Completion Code Generation Code Review Debugging Refactoring Testing Documentation Chat Multi File
Platforms	macOSWindowsLinuxDocker	macOSLinuxWindows	All platforms via API
Languages	Any (local inference for all model-supported languages)	All languages supported by chosen model	338 programming languages
Open Source	Yes	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	155,000Most	30,200	6,277
Users	2.5M weekly downloads	N/A	Open-source community
Rating	N/A	N/A	N/A
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