Continue
Open-source · self-hostable · replaces 1 SaaS tool on os-alt
continuedev/continue · alive · ★ 33.1k · last commit 3w ago · 714 open issues
License: Apache-2.0
Good fit for Developers who already run a local model and want the Copilot UX (ghost-text + chat + edit) without the hosted bill.
Weak at Mobile / web IDEs (Codespaces, GitHub.dev) — Continue is desktop-IDE only.
In a terminal? npx -y github:SolvoHQ/os-alt-cli github-copilot prints
the GitHub Copilot comparison table including Continue.
how the CLI works →
Replaces these SaaS
- GitHub Copilot · AI code completion / chat in the IDE
Install the Continue extension from the VS Code / JetBrains marketplace. Edit `~/.continue/config.json` to add an Ollama provider with `model: qwen2.5-coder:7b` for completions and a larger model (Llama 3.1 70B / DeepSeek-Coder-V2 33B) for chat. Uninstall Copilot from the same IDE — they fight over the inline-suggestion API. Continue's autocomplete latency on a 7B model is comparable to Copilot at <300ms on a recent GPU.
README badges for the SaaS this replaces
Maintainers and forks: drop a badge in your README to link readers from the SaaS-comparison page back to your repo.
