Recommended Models for Chat in Continue

Choose the best chat model for Continue, including hosted high-performance options, fast speed/quality tradeoffs, and local privacy-first models.

The model you use for for Chat mode will be:

• used with Edit mode by default but can be switched
• always used with Agent mode if the model supports tool calling

Model Recommendations

Model role	Best open models	Best closed models	Notes
Chat Edit	Qwen3 Coder (480B) Qwen3 Coder (30B) gpt-oss (120B) gpt-oss (20B)	Claude Opus 4.1 Claude Sonnet 4 GPT-5 Gemini 2.5 Pro	Closed and open models have pretty similar performance

For a comprehensive comparison of all available models by role, see our model recommendations table.

For model recommendations, please refer to our Model Recommendations page.