Pick Ollama if
developers and privacy-sensitive teams who have RAM/VRAM and want Llama/Gemma/DeepSeek without a per-seat chat plan.
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Our take
Pick Ollama if you're a developer and privacy-sensitive teams who have RAM/VRAM and want Llama/Gemma/DeepSeek without a per-seat chat plan. Pick Continue if you're a developer who want the OSS extension and will point it at their own model. Skip Ollama if you're someone who wants a polished hosted chat with browsing and image gen and will not download a 4–70B weight file. Skip Continue if you're people who want a
Best for
Ollama Keeping weights and prompts on hardware you control
Continue An OSS Copilot-shaped sidebar you configure yourself
Free plan
Ollama $0 · no license fee. You pay electricity, disk, and GPU. The desktop app and CLI are free to download
Continue $0 · apache 2.0. You pay the model provider
Lowest paid
Ollama
Continue Not published by the vendor
Coding agent
Ollama Claude Code
Continue User Settings
Runs where
Ollama Local or hosted
Continue Hosted
Watch out
Ollama Hardware is the bill
Continue The repo is read-only
Last checked
Ollama 2026-10-19 · ollama.com
Continue 2026-10-19 · continue.dev
Which one, then?
Pick Continue if
developers who want the OSS extension and will point it at their own model.
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