Continue vs Gemini 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.
Before you read on · Sunset since 18 June 2026
Gemini CLI has had an access tier withdrawn; check what is still available before choosing it.
Free consumer access ended 18 June 2026; users were directed to Google Antigravity. The tool still exists for API-key and paid use, so this is a withdrawn access tier rather than a shutdown — a distinction almost every ranked page gets wrong.
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
Gemini CLI
Google's open-source terminal agent. Consumer free tier withdrawn in June 2026.
Not read
| Compared on | Continue | Gemini CLI |
|---|---|---|
| Asserted — what each vendor publishes about itself | ||
| Category | IDE extension | CLI agent |
| Vendor | Continue | |
| Status | Acquired | Sunset |
| How it charges | Hybrid | Usage |
| 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 Google's pricing page could be read with a price beside it. |
| Default model | None — you choose | google/gemini |
| 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 | 106.3K |
| Maintenance | 100/100 | 100/100 |
| Days since last push | 0 | 0 |
| Top model in it | not measured | not measured |
| Its volume | not measured | not measured |
What has changed on either of them
2 entries| What changed | Kind | Was, and is now | Confidence | Occurred |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Continue acquired by CursorContinue | Acquisition | Acquired · acquired by Cursor | high | |
| Gemini CLI free consumer access endedGemini CLI | Tier withdrawn | Sunset | high |
