IT AI Index

Index › Vendors › Continue · September 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Continue

18Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

8 of 12Models named it

1Category

September 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table vv2026-09.2, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

9 labels, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Continue was named 9 times in AI coding, where GitHub Copilot led with 67%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business5 of 45

under the label threshold

Mid-market14 of 46

under the label threshold

Enterprise10 of 47

under the label threshold

In ai coding · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Continue for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
AI coding assistants	Developer platform	0%	14 of 46	0%	9	under 10 labels · led by GitHub Copilot at 67%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Continue yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Continue across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Twelve models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	1
Kimi K2	1	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	0	1
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained6 labels1

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative7 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative18 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Open-source flexibility, VS Code/JetBrains, privacy-focused teams | Requires API setup; quality varies by model” Grok 4.1 Fast · AI coding · budget prompt · alternative

“Continue — all free software where you bring your own API key” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI coding · budget prompt · alternative

“Zero cost: Cline, Aider, Continue.dev (self-hosted), Tabby.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · AI coding · budget prompt · alternative

“Continue.dev or Aider: Open-source, local/privacy-first” Grok 4.1 Fast · AI coding · negative prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Continue, over the 18 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Continue was named but was not.

ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

GitHub Copilot18 of 184Not in the top three

Cursor15 of 183Not in the top three

Windsurf13 of 182Not in the top three

Tabnine11 of 186Not in the top three

Claude Code9 of 181Not in the top three

Amazon Q Developer9 of 180Not in the top three

Aider8 of 181Not in the top three

Cline7 of 182Not in the top three

Ollama3 of 180Not in the top three

OpenAI Codex3 of 180Not in the top three

A head-to-head page exists where both products are in a category's top three. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Continue. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, four of the twelve in this edition, so these counts come from 13 of the 18 answers that named Continue and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

axify.io7

daily.dev6

augmentcode.com5

bsi.bund.de5

github.com5

memeburn.com5

dev.to4

knostic.ai4

learn.g2.com4

sourcegraph.com4

Forty-nine of the forty-nine domain citations in answers naming Continue came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

axify.io/blog/the-best-ai-coding-assistants-a-full-comparison-of-20-tools7

bsi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/BSI/KI/ANSSI_BSI_AI_Coding_Assistants.pdf5

memeburn.com/best-ai-coding-tools5

daily.dev/blog/best-ai-coding-assistants-comparison4

knostic.ai/blog/ai-coding-assistant-security4

learn.g2.com/best-ai-coding-assistants4

witness.ai/blog/ai-coding-assistants-security4

wjaets.com/sites/default/files/fulltext_pdf/WJAETS-2026-0056.pdf4

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Names read as Continue

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Continue; a claim can dispute any of them.

Continue.dev 6

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Continue's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Continue, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

It does not get any change to labels, shares or verdicts, any preview, or any say over which quotes appear. A verification link goes to your work email; an address at continuent.com is approved on the spot, any other address is reviewed by hand.

Your name and company appear on the claimed page, or the company alone if you ask below. A title and a LinkedIn address appear there too if you give them, and are left off if you do not. Your email address is never published.