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Generated from the two spec rows. Green marks the better value where a spec has a clear direction. Everything else is just different.
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Continue Dev, Inc. (acquired by Cursor) · IDE extension
#116OSSMCP
Panel
4.66 spec wins
- Reliability
- 4.5
- Usefulness
- 5.3
- Cost
- 5.8
- Longevity
- 2.7
“Acquired by Cursor in June 2026, so the open-source Copilot alternative now belongs to the closed-source one.”
Llama Coder
Steve Korshakov · IDE extension
#204OSS
Panel
5.20 spec wins
- Reliability
- 5.0
- Usefulness
- 3.7
- Cost
- 8.3
- Longevity
- 3.7
“Works best on Apple Silicon, which turns your privacy principles into a laptop procurement request.”
Spec by spec
| Spec | Continue | Llama Coder |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture | ||
| Category | IDE extension | IDE extension |
| Runs | local | local |
| Platforms | macos, linux, windows | macos, linux, windows |
| Context window | not documented | not documented |
| Protocols | ||
| MCP client | Yes | No |
| MCP server | No | No |
| Capabilities | ||
| Runs terminal commands | Yes | No |
| Multi-file edits | Yes | No |
| Git operations | No | No |
| Browser control | No | No |
| Sandboxed execution | No | No |
| Multi-agent orchestration | No | No |
| Headless / CI mode | Yes | No |
| Models | ||
| Backbone | Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp | Code Llama |
| Bring your own model | Yes | Yes |
| Local models | YesStill works, but nobody at the vendor maintains it: Cursor acquired the company and the hosted services closed, while the open-source repository stays public and is still receiving commits. | Yes |
| Cost | ||
| Pricing model | byok | free |
| Starts at | $0/mo | n/a |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Bring your own key | Yes | No |
| Openness | ||
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| License | Apache-2.0 | MIT |
| GitHub stars | 36,084 | 2,087 |
Which one would each critic pick
| Critic | Continue | Llama Coder | Pick |
|---|---|---|---|
| El Juez | — | — | not enough reviews |
| El Amigo | 5.0 | 5.3 | Llama Coder — Pick Llama Coder if you want completions and nothing else, with nothing leaving the laptop; pick Tabby when you also want chat and answers about your own repositories. |
| El Crítico | 4.3 | 4.5 | Llama Coder — One maintainer, one model family and one serving runtime, so a change in any of those three leaves the extension somewhere between degraded and dead. |
| El Profesor | 5.0 | 5.3 | Llama Coder — Completion is served by a local endpoint with no repository index and no embedding step documented, so the available context is whatever the editor hands over. |
| La Inversora | 3.0 | 4.0 | Llama Coder — There is no company: one named individual publishing an extension with no pricing, no hosted service and roughly 2,100 stars, so the only exit here is a fork. |
| La Jefa | 3.0 | 4.8 | Llama Coder — The software is free and the real invoice is hardware: sixteen gigabytes of memory per developer machine, which is a refresh cycle, not a line item. |
| El Hacker | 7.3 | 7.3 | no preference |
Picks are derived from each critic's own scores. Humans vote on matchups on the duels page.