AI tool comparison
Ollama 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
Ollama
Run LLMs locally on your machine — no cloud needed
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Free
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Ollama lets you run Llama, Mistral, Gemma, and other open-source LLMs locally. One command to download and run. Features include a REST API, model library, and GPU acceleration on Mac and Linux.
Developer Tools
Continue
Open-source AI code assistant
100%
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Community
Free
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Continue is an open-source AI code assistant for VS Code and JetBrains. Connect any model — local or cloud — for completions, chat, and editing.
Reviewer scorecard
“The Docker of LLMs. Pull a model, run it, use the API. Privacy, no cloud costs, works offline. Essential tool for any developer experimenting with local AI.”
“Open-source Copilot alternative that works with any model. Connect Ollama for fully local AI coding assistance.”
“Local models still lag behind cloud models in quality. But for development, testing, and privacy-sensitive use cases, Ollama is the obvious choice. Free is hard to beat.”
“Use your own models, keep your code private, and customize everything. The open-source approach to AI coding.”
“Local AI is the future for privacy and cost. As models get smaller and hardware gets better, Ollama becomes the default way to run AI. They are building the runtime layer.”
“Open-source AI code assistants with model flexibility will capture users who want privacy and control.”
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