Continue vs litellm

Continue (Pioneering open-source coding agent) and litellm both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Continue (rank #189) holds a meaningful lead over litellm (rank #1114) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (50 vs 7). The gap of 43 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Continue is clearly ahead of litellm. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Continue is clearly ahead of litellm. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Continue is clearly ahead of litellm. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Continue is clearly ahead of litellm.

Continue carries 34,981 GitHub stars across 8 public repos, with 3 repositories active in the last 90 days and 136 external contributors on record. litellm shows 0 stars across 0 public repos, 0 active in the last 90 days and 0 external contributors.

Continue is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. litellm makes more sense for teams already using its adjacent tools. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.