Continue is the contrarian pick: a completely open-source VS Code and JetBrains extension that lets you plug in any model — Ollama locally, Claude via API, GPT-4, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. For developers who want to run a model entirely locally (zero data egress, air-gapped environments, or just curiosity about local LLMs), Continue with Ollama + CodeLlama or DeepSeek-Coder is the only serious option. Model quality varies by what you plug in, but with Claude Sonnet via API it matches Copilot on most tasks. Weakness: setup requires more technical comfort than plug-and-play tools. For privacy-first developers or those experimenting with open models, it's the best-designed extension available.
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