Continue
by Continue · Open-source coding agent, now acquired by Cursor
BenchRank score
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Overview
Continue was an open-source coding agent for AI-assisted development, built around the aim that developers are amplified rather than automated. Its homepage is now a notice that the company has been acquired by Cursor. The captured text says the open-source codebase remains freely available as a foundation for others, but describes no features or how the tool works.
- Best for
- Developers wanting the open-source codebase of a coding agent that has joined Cursor.
- Pricing
- No pricing is shown; the captured page only announces the acquisition.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hostedCLI
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Open-source codebase remains freely available
- Blog, docs and GitHub are still linked from the site
Trade-offs
- Acquired by Cursor; the site no longer presents an active product
- No features, plans or pricing are shown on the captured page
- FAQs on data and availability appear with no answers captured
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Continue’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The Continue pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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