Continue vs Roo Code
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 · Archived since 15 May 2026
Roo Code is archived and is no longer being developed.
Repository archived 15 May 2026; the team pivoted to a separate product. It had roughly 1.56M installs at the point it stopped, which is why so many still-ranking "Cline vs Roo Code" pages now give an answer that cannot be acted on.
| Compared on | Continue | Roo Code |
|---|---|---|
| Asserted — what each vendor publishes about itself | ||
| Category | IDE extension | IDE extension |
| Vendor | Continue | Roo |
| Status | Acquired | Archived |
| How it charges | Hybrid | Free |
| Entry price | Not published as tiers | Free |
| Plans | Continue publishes no pricing page for Continue since the Cursor acquisition, so there are no tiers to compare. | No named tier on Roo's pricing page could be read with a price beside it. |
| 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 | 35.3K | 24.4K |
| Maintenance | 100/100 | 0/100 |
| Days since last push | 0 | 79 |
| Top model in it | not measured | DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash · $0.17 |
| Its volume | not measured | 25B tokens |
What has changed on either of them
3 entries| What changed | Kind | Was, and is now | Confidence | Occurred |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roo Code changed the quota wording on its pricing pageRoo Code | Quota change | limits 10 users, 100 users, 50 userslimits 10 users, 100 users, 50 users, unlimited parallel tasks, unlimited tasks in parallel | low | |
| Continue acquired by CursorContinue | Acquisition | Acquired · acquired by Cursor | high | |
| Roo Code archivedRoo Code | Archived | Archived | high |
