continuedev/continue alternatives

choose for an actively maintained terminal coding agent after Continue's archival.

The open source coding agent.

choose for a broader agent toolkit with a TUI and unified LLM API if you need custom workflows.

AI agent toolkit: unified LLM API, agent loop, TUI, coding agent CLI

choose for a lightweight, actively maintained Rust terminal agent from OpenAI.

Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal

choose if you primarily run open-weight models and want a coding agent tuned for them.

A coding agent for open models like Kimi K3

choose for an actively maintained agent with SDK, IDE extension, and CLI similar to Continue.

Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.

choose for a Rust terminal agent with ongoing community development.

Open-source coding agent for your terminal, built in Rust and on a journey of continuous community improvement. Issues and PRs welcome.

choose if your workflow centers on DeepSeek models and you want a native agent.

DeepSeek-native AI coding agent for your terminal. Engineered around prefix-cache stability — leave it running.

choose for an extensible fullscreen TUI harness with mouse support.

SpaceXAI's coding agent harness and TUI. Fullscreen, mouse interactive, extensible.

choose for minimal RAM usage if you run on resource-limited environments.

The most RAM efficient harness

choose if you use Kimi models from Moonshot and want a dedicated CLI agent.

Kimi Code CLI is your next CLI agent.

choose for a TypeScript starter for Kimi agent development.

Kimi Code CLI — The Starting Point for Next-Gen Agents

choose if you use Neovim and want an integrated AI coding assistant.

✨ AI Coding, Vim Style

choose for an actively maintained command-line AI coding agent.

Command Code AI

choose for a conversational open-source AI coding agent.

TalkCody - Code is cheap, show me your talk. 🚀 Free Open Source AI Coding Agent.

choose for a zero-config, minimal agent with enforced ephemeral subagents to keep context clean.

Stop degrading your model's reasoning. A minimal, zero-config AI coding agent. Enforced ephemeral subagents keep context pure. From tiny local models up to Sol, Fable and Kimi K3.

choose for a compact Rust agent with Claude Code plugin compatibility.

14MB ACP-Rust Agent, Claude Code Plugin compatible, Dynamic Workflow, Goal, Artifacts, Free Web Search, full feature and better support!

choose if you want a comprehensive agentic engineering platform rather than Continue's extension-only approach.

Kilo is the all-in-one agentic engineering platform. Build, ship, and iterate faster with the most popular open source coding agent.

choose if you use JetBrains and need a dedicated AI coding assistant.

Sweep: AI coding assistant for JetBrains

choose for an enterprise-focused AI coder with strict quality gates and code review.

Costrict - strict AI coder for enterprises, quality first, including AI Agent, AI CodeReview, AI Completion.

choose if you want an agent that runs anywhere with any model/backend.

runs anywhere. uses anything