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Continue vs GitHub Copilot
Pick 2-5 products, models, companies or categories. The table shows measurable differences with sources; highlighted cells mark the objectively highest or lowest value in a row, never an overall winner.
Measured differences - no winner is declared
Products (2)
| Attribute | Continue | GitHub Copilot |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Continue | GitHub |
| Type | Open source | Agent |
| Popularity rank | #125 2places down | #21 3places up |
| Trend 7d | — | +25% |
| Momentum 30d | — | +32% |
| Wikipedia views 28d | — | 12K |
| HN stories 28d | 0 | 15 |
| Entry price | — | $10/moNot verified |
| Free tier | Unknown | Yes |
| Enterprise plan | Unknown | Yes |
| Open source | Yes (Apache-2.0) | No |
| Deployment | local | cloud |
| Platforms | VS Code, JetBrains | VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Xcode, web, CLI |
| Text | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning | – | – |
| Coding | ✓ | ✓ |
| Image generation | – | – |
| Video generation | – | – |
| Speech | – | – |
| Web search | – | – |
| Deep research | – | – |
| Agents | ✓ | ✓ |
| Computer use | – | – |
| File analysis | – | – |
| Memory | – | – |
| API | – | – |
| Local / offline | ✓ | – |
| Linked models | — | — |
| GitHub stars | 36,055 | — |
| Launched | — | 29 Jun 2021 |
| Last tracked event | — | 4d ago |
| Price data freshness | Not verified | Not verified |
Popularity rank over time
Colour follows the product (fixed order), not its rank.