Continue vs JetBrains AI Assistant

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-09-14

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Continue edges out JetBrains AI Assistant overall, scoring 16 versus 11 out of 100, and gets named more often too: 23 of 70 answers compared with 15 of 70. Continue's strongest showings come on free, local-privacy, VS Code, and open-source questions, where it's named in every answer asked. JetBrains AI Assistant does better with professional developers and Python questions, named in 3 of 4 answers each. Head-to-head, Continue leads on 5 questions, JetBrains AI Assistant leads on 4, and they tie on 11. Neither tool shows up for beginners, pull request review, or codebase-wide agent questions.

Head to head

metric	Continue	JetBrains AI Assistant
score	16	11
questions won	11	7

By assistant

Continue

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	13	20% of answers	#4.8
Claude	16	35% of answers	#9.3
Gemini	35	80% of answers	#9.6
Perplexity	14	20% of answers	#3.8

JetBrains AI Assistant

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	17	30% of answers	#6.2
Claude	14	30% of answers	#8.2
Gemini	11	20% of answers	#6.0
Perplexity	2	5% of answers	#8.0

Where they differ

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