Image: CI/CD News / cicd.deployment.to Cursor Acquired Continue. Your Cloud Data Deletes on July 15.
Cursor quietly acqui-hired Continue, the open-source GitHub Copilot alternative, in June. The product is shutting down: billing is off, the repo is read-only, and cloud data gets permanently deleted on July 15.
Cursor quietly acquired Continue around June 16. There was no press release. The Continue team posted a short note on their website confirming the deal, and that was mostly it.
Continue built one of the more popular open-source alternatives to GitHub Copilot, a VS Code and JetBrains extension that let you wire up your own models via BYOK, customize prompts, and keep everything local if you wanted. It had a substantial following among developers who wanted Copilot-style features without the subscription or the model lock-in.
What happened to the product
The deal was structured as an acqui-hire. Co-founder Nate Sesti is joining Cursor. The other founding engineers scattered: two of them went to OpenClaw.
The product itself is being wound down. Continue shipped its final release, v2.0.0-vscode, on June 19. The GitHub repository is now read-only. New signups are disabled. Recurring billing has been turned off.
The code remains available under its Apache 2.0 license and can be forked. A community fork called PearAI has picked up the architecture and is continuing development, though it’s a separate project with no staffing from the original team.
The July 15 deadline
If you used Continue’s hosted platform and had cloud sync enabled, your conversation history, saved configurations, and team settings will be permanently deleted on July 15, 2026. That’s eight days from today.
To export your data: log into continue.dev, open your account settings, and use the export function before the deadline.
If you only ran the local VS Code or JetBrains extension without enabling cloud sync, your local data is not affected by the shutdown.
Context
Cursor is now owned by SpaceX, which completed its $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere in June. Continue, by extension, is now part of that same structure. Whether that influenced the timing or terms of this deal isn’t clear; the acquisition terms were not disclosed.
Alternatives
For developers who need to replace Continue:
- Cline — open-source, VS Code, Apache 2.0, ~61K GitHub stars
- OpenCode — open-source CLI agent with a large community (~172K stars); has paid plans if you want hosted access
- PearAI — community-maintained fork of Continue’s architecture, still under Apache 2.0
- GitHub Copilot — the mainstream alternative for JetBrains users in particular
Sources: CI/CD News, The New Stack, byteiota, continue.dev