Pick Continue if
developers who want the OSS extension and will point it at their own model.
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Our take
Pick Continue if developers who want the OSS extension and will point it at their own model. Pick Roo Code if developers who used the Roo sidecar and now need a living fork (Cline / ZooCode) or the Roomote successor. Skip Continue if people who want a maintained commercial IDE agent (Cursor, GitHub Copilot). Skip Roo Code if people who want a hosted Copilot SKU (GitHub Copilot) with no local agent.
Best for
Continue An OSS Copilot-shaped sidebar you configure yourself
Roo Code Developers who used the Roo sidecar and now need a living fork (Cline / ZooCode) or the
Free plan
Continue $0 · apache 2.0. You pay the model provider
Roo Code $0 · to read/build the archived Apache 2.0 tree. Inference was BYOK
Lowest paid
Continue Not published by the vendor
Roo Code Roomote self-host $249
Coding agent
Continue User Settings
Roo Code
Runs where
Continue Hosted
Roo Code Local; you host it
Watch out
Continue The repo is read-only
Roo Code The extension is shut down
Last checked
Continue 2026-10-19 · continue.dev
Roo Code 2026-10-22 · roomote.dev
Which one, then?
Pick Roo Code if
developers who used the Roo sidecar and now need a living fork (Cline / ZooCode) or the Roomote successor.
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