Pioneering open-source coding agent
Continue vs Together
Developer ecosystem comparison across GitHub activity, SDKs, documentation, community, reach and momentum.
Continue (Pioneering open-source coding agent) and Together both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.
Continue (rank #189) holds a modest lead over Together (rank #455) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (50 vs 39). The gap of 11 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.
On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Continue is ahead of Together. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Continue is clearly ahead of Together. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Continue is slightly ahead of Together. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Continue is slightly ahead of Together. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Together is ahead of Continue.
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. Together shows 20,220 stars across 101 public repos, 40 active in the last 90 days and 2 external contributors.
Continue is the stronger read for anyone weighting education. Together looks better where momentum is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.
Side-by-side metrics
| Metric | Continue | Together |
|---|---|---|
| Ranking | ||
| Overall rank | #189 | #455 |
| Pillars | ||
| Overall | 50 | 39 |
| Code | 51 | 33 |
| Education | 79 | 54 |
| Community | 41 | 34 |
| Reach | 40 | 35 |
| Momentum | 28 | 45 |
| Builder experience | 0 | 0 |
| Signals | ||
| Stars | 34,981 | 20,220 |
| Forks | 5,163 | 2,254 |
| Public repos | 8 | 101 |
| Active repos (90d) | 3 | 40 |
| External contributors | 136 | 2 |
| Avg polish | 56 | 38 |
| Avg AI-readiness | 27 | 31 |