Continue vs OpenAI Codex CLI
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.
IDE extension
Continue
Open-source, configurable IDE assistant for VS Code and JetBrains. Acquired by Cursor; the open-source codebase remains available.
Not published as tiers
CLI agent
OpenAI Codex CLI
OpenAI's open-source terminal coding agent, distributed through ChatGPT subscriptions.
Not read
| Compared on | Continue | OpenAI Codex CLI |
|---|---|---|
| Asserted — what each vendor publishes about itself | ||
| Category | IDE extension | CLI agent |
| Vendor | Continue | OpenAI |
| Status | Acquired | Active |
| How it charges | Hybrid | Subscription |
| Entry price | Not published as tiers | Not read |
| Plans | Continue publishes no pricing page for Continue since the Cursor acquisition, so there are no tiers to compare. | No named tier on OpenAI's pricing page could be read with a price beside it. |
| Default model | None — you choose | openai/gpt-5.5 |
| Your own key | Yes | Yes |
| Source | Open source · Apache-2.0 | Open source · Apache-2.0 |
| Measured — counted on the last nightly run | ||
| Stars | 35.3K | 103.5K |
| Maintenance | 100/100 | 100/100 |
| Days since last push | 0 | 0 |
| Top model in it | not measured | OpenAI: GPT-5.5 · $11.25 |
| Its volume | not measured | 54B tokens |
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 |
