Best AI Models for Continue
Continue is an open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains. It connects to any model and supports autocomplete, chat, and edit. Benefits from function calling and streaming.
What Matters for Continue
Best Models for Continue
Top 15 by tool-optimized score
All Models Ranked for Continue (439 models)
Scored by: benchmark performance (90%) from MMLU, GPQA, HumanEval, SWE-bench, and 15+ standardized evaluations, with capabilities and context as tiebreakers (10%).
More Tool Rankings
Based on our analysis of coding benchmarks, capability matching, and pricing, Gemini 3.5 Flash currently ranks #1 for Continue. Rankings are rebuilt as benchmark, pricing, and provider data refresh.
We score models using benchmark performance (90%) from LMArena, HumanEval, SWE-bench, MMLU, and 15+ standardized evaluations. Capabilities and context serve as tiebreakers (10%). Only models with the capabilities Continue needs are included in the tool-specific rankings.
We currently track 439 AI models compatible with Continue. This includes models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, and other providers accessible via API.
Many open-source models are compatible with Continue through API providers like OpenRouter, Together AI, and Groq. Check our rankings to see which open-source models perform best.
Rankings refresh whenever the underlying benchmark, pricing, and catalog sources refresh. That means some signals update faster than others, and the page reflects the latest verified source data available.