How do I self-host Continue?

Continue can be deployed using Docker Compose. The AltStack provides a production-ready configuration that you can deploy on your own server. Simply copy the configuration and run it on any machine with Docker installed.

What are the system requirements for self-hosting Continue?

The recommended hardware for Continue is: Depends on chosen model. Actual requirements may vary based on usage volume and data size.

Is Continue free to self-host?

Yes, Continue is open source under the Apache-2.0 and free to self-host. Your only costs are the server infrastructure. A basic cloud VPS starts at around $5-10/month.

What programming language is Continue built with?

Continue is built with TypeScript. It has 36,219 stars on GitHub, indicating strong community adoption and support.

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Deploy Continue

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Quick Start

Create a directory

mkdir continue-dev-self-hosted && cd continue-dev-self-hosted

Create config file

Copy the content from the Config tab below into a file named docker-compose.yml

Deploy

docker compose up -d

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Metadata

License

Apache-2.0

Language

TypeScript

Last Updated

10/12/2026

Configuration

yaml


# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
# 🚀 BUILT & MAINTAINED BY THE ALTSTACK
# 🌍 https://thealtstack.com
# 💡 Open-source deployment templates for modern self-hosting.
# ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━


services:
  continue:
    image: continuedev/continue:latest
    container_name: continue
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "8081:8080"

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