Aider vs Continue
Read from each vendor’s own pages last night, so it does not go stale the way a written comparison does.
Before you read on · Acquired since 2 August 2026
Continue was acquired by Cursor and is no longer independent.
continue.dev now reads "Continue has joined Cursor · Continue was acquired by Cursor" and the pricing page is gone. The Apache-2.0 repository is still public and was still being pushed to on 2 August 2026. No announcement date is published, so the date here is when it was first observed.
Measured — counted from real repositories, nightlyAsserted — read from the vendor docs, dated
| Compared on | Aider | Continue |
|---|---|---|
| Asserted — what each vendor publishes about itself | ||
| Category | CLI agent | IDE extension |
| Vendor | Aider AI | Continue |
| Status | Active | Acquired |
| How it charges | Free | Hybrid |
| Entry price | Free | Not published as tiers |
| Plans | No named tier on Aider AI's pricing page could be read with a price beside it. | Continue publishes no pricing page for Continue since the Cursor acquisition, so there are no tiers to compare. |
| Default model | None — you choose | None — you choose |
| Your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Source | Open source · Apache-2.0 | Open source · Apache-2.0 |
| Measured — counted on the last nightly run | ||
| Stars | 47.9K | 35.3K |
| Maintenance | 75/100 | 100/100 |
| Days since last push | 72 | 0 |
| Top model in it | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash · $0.17 | not measured |
| Its volume | 765M tokens | not measured |
What has changed on either of them
1 entry| What changed | Kind | Was, and is now | Confidence | Occurred |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continue acquired by CursorContinue | Acquisition | Acquired · acquired by Cursor | high |
