AI tool comparison
Bolt.new vs Continue
Which one should you ship with? Here is the side-by-side panel verdict, pricing read, reviewer split, and community vote comparison.
Developer Tools
Bolt.new
Prompt to full-stack app in your browser
67%
Panel ship
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Community
Free
Entry
Bolt.new by StackBlitz lets you describe an app in natural language and generates a full working prototype — frontend, backend, database — all in a browser-based dev environment.
Developer Tools
Continue
Open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains
100%
Panel ship
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Community
Free
Entry
Continue is an open-source IDE extension that adds AI chat, autocomplete, and editing to VS Code and JetBrains. Connect any LLM — local or cloud. Customizable with your own prompts and context.
Reviewer scorecard
“Perfect for prototyping. I described a dashboard and had a working app in 3 minutes. Not production-ready, but unbeatable for speed-to-demo.”
“The team ships fast and responds to feedback. Good sign.”
“Impressive demo, but the generated code is messy and you'll rewrite most of it. If you can't code, you can't fix what it breaks. Know what you're getting into.”
“Solid execution. Does what it promises and the DX is clean.”
“As a creator who needs quick landing pages and MVPs, this is a game-changer. I built a waitlist page with email capture in under 5 minutes.”
“This is the kind of tool that makes you wonder how you worked without it.”
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