Amazon Q Developer vs Continue

A side-by-side comparison of Amazon Q Developer and Continue — pricing, free tiers, and who each tool is genuinely best for.

	Amazon Q Developer	Continue
Tagline	AWS's AI coding assistant for building, transforming, and operating on AWS	Open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains
Category	AI Coding	AI Coding
Pricing	Free tier; Pro from ~$19/user/mo	Free and open-source (self-hosted with your own API keys); hosted plans reportedly from ~$10/mo — check continue.dev
Free tier
Best for	Teams building on AWS who want an assistant that understands their cloud services and can automate code transformations.	Developers who want a fully open-source, self-hosted AI assistant with control over which models and data leave their machine.
Not for	Developers outside the AWS ecosystem who want a vendor-neutral, frontier-model-first experience.	Developers who prefer a fully managed, no-configuration coding assistant out of the box.
Use cases	AWS-aware code completion Java version upgrades Code transformation Infrastructure troubleshooting Agentic feature development	Bring-your-own-model AI chat Inline autocomplete with local LLMs Codebase-aware Q&A Custom AI workflows
	Visit Amazon Q Developer	Visit Continue

Choose it if: Teams building on AWS who want an assistant that understands their cloud services and can automate code transformations.

Choose it if: Developers who want a fully open-source, self-hosted AI assistant with control over which models and data leave their machine.