Models not showing in Continue.dev extension (VS Code & PyCharm) despite active subscription

[indr56]

Before submitting your bug report

• I believe this is a bug. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
• I'm not able to find an open issue that reports the same bug
• I've seen the troubleshooting guide on the Continue Docs

Relevant environment info

- OS: macOS
- Continue version: 1.0.14
- IDE version: 1.101.1
- Model:
- config:
  

  
  OR link to assistant in Continue hub:

Description

Describe the bug:
I’ve purchased the Solo Base plan with the $20/month Models Add-On. On the web dashboard, I can see 0/500 usage, so the model access is clearly active.

However, in both VS Code and PyCharm, the extension:

Does not list any models in the dropdown

Prompts me to add a BYOK (Bring Your Own Key)

Does not seem to detect the included hosted models from the add-on

To Reproduce:

Purchased Solo Base + Models Add-On (Base tier)

Installed Continue.dev in both VS Code and JetBrains (PyCharm)

Logged in successfully via continue login

Web shows subscription is active (0/500 usage shown)

Editor shows no models, instead asks for BYOK

What I’ve tried:

Reloaded VS Code and PyCharm

Uninstalled & reinstalled the extension

Deleted .continue and .continue/continue.yaml

Tried both default and custom config.yaml files

Verified login was successful

Checked that extension version is latest (v1.0.14)

Environment:

Continue extension version: 1.0.14

Plan: Solo Base + Models Add-On

Expected behavior:
Hosted models from the Models Add-On (Claude 3.7, GPT‑4o, etc.) should be available inside the IDE without needing BYOK.

Screenshots / Logs:

To reproduce

To Reproduce:

Purchased Solo Base + Models Add-On (Base tier)

Installed Continue.dev in both VS Code and JetBrains (PyCharm)

Logged in successfully via continue login

Web shows subscription is active (0/500 usage shown)

Editor shows no models, instead asks for BYOK

Log output

[sestinj]

@indr56 thanks for sharing the extensive screenshots, it's always nice to open an issue that is well-documented : )

I think that the root cause of the issue is that there may not be any models listed in your config.yaml (which you can open with the gear icon in the assistants dropdown).

One way of fixing this would be to create a new assistant on the hub, which will automatically fill in with the models that we recommend, which are compatible with the Models Add-On.

The other option would be to put these into your config.yaml:

models:
  - uses: anthropic/claude-4-sonnet
    with:
       ANTHROPIC_API_KEY: ${{ secrets.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY }}