Blackbox AI CLI vs. Continue

Feature	Blackbox AI CLI	Continue

Tagline	Feature-rich AI coding agent in your terminal	The open-source AI code assistant
Website	https://www.blackbox.ai/cli	https://continue.dev
Language	typescript	typescript
Release Date	September 20, 2025	August 21, 2025
Last Updated	April 28, 2026	April 28, 2026
Provider Type	Independent	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	No
Git Integration	deep	basic
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	No
Voice Mode	Yes	No
IDE Integration	35+ IDE integrations including VS Code, JetBrains	VS Code, JetBrains IDEs
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	Yes	Yes
Context Window	Model Dependent	Model-dependent
Supported Models	400+ models including Opus, GPT, Gemini, Qwen, GLM, Grok, Minimax (free), Mimo, Llama, Kimi, Mistral, DeepSeek	Claude Opus / Sonnet / Haiku, GPT-5 / pro / mini, Gemini, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen, Llama, Local models for Ollama
Pricing Model	Freemium	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free (BYOK) / $10-40/mo	Free (BYOK) / $10/mo
Source Code Availability	Open Source (GPL-3.0)	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code	https://github.com/blackboxaicode/cli	https://github.com/continuedev/continue
Development State	active	active