Continue vs JetBrains AI Assistant

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-10-12

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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	15	11
questions won	12	13

By assistant

Continue

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	10	10% of answers	#3.5
Claude	15	25% of answers	#6.0
Gemini	31	45% of answers	#5.6
Perplexity	14	16% of answers	#2.7

JetBrains AI Assistant

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	12	15% of answers	#8.0
Claude	12	20% of answers	#8.0
Gemini	22	55% of answers	#5.8
Perplexity	3	5% of answers	#4.0

Where they differ

Only Continue gets named for

What's the best AI coding assistant I can run locally for privacy?
What are the best free AI coding assistants?
What's the best AI coding assistant for VS Code?

Only JetBrains AI Assistant gets named for

What's the best AI code editor right now?
Which AI coding assistant is best for professional developers?
Which AI coding tool writes the most reliable code?
Which AI coding tool is best for writing tests?

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