PearAI Open Source AI Code Editor (Fork of VSCode). The PearAI Submodule

Reported discontinued (owner decision 2026-10-02; no company statement found)

Treated as discontinued because two independent signals point that way; the company itself has not confirmed it (see below).
Signals that the company has stopped: PitchBook’s profile (via search listing) says PearAI went out of business on 2026-06-09; GitHub issue trypear/pearai-master#36 (opened 2026-05-07, “Is PearAI abandoned?”) says updates have stopped and the domain trypear.ai is no longer registered, with no maintainer reply visible; a July 2026 issue says server.trypear.ai does not resolve. Counter-signals: when fetched on 2026-10-02, trypear.ai still returned a 2024-style marketing page (PearAI Router, agent, YC-backed), which may be cached or stale; a review updated 2026-09-05 treats the product as operating. No company statement was found, so the shutdown is unconfirmed. Alternatives: cline, cursor and windsurf (Devin Desktop).

PearAI

Open-source AI code editor from a Y Combinator-backed startup : a VS Code fork that bundles AI features. The “PearAI Submodule” (github.com/trypear/pearai-submodule) is a fork of the Continue extension, and the editor integrated AI extensions such as Continue, Perplexity search and Roo Code. Site: trypear.ai.

What it offered (per the trypear.ai marketing page, fetched 2026-10-02, undated)

• A subscription option (PearAI Router) routing between models, and bring-your-own-key for other LLMs. No prices are stated here.
• A coding agent for implementing features and fixing bugs.
• Controversy in 2024: per Y Combinator’s post “Correcting the record” (fetched 2026-10-02), YC president Garry Tan said PearAI “was criticized online for an inappropriate approach to open source” (its handling of the Continue project) and that PearAI apologised and removed the offending repositories. Continue’s co-founders are Ty Dunn and Nate Sesti.

State in 2026

• Per the GitHub API (fetched 2026-10-02), the trypear/pearai-submodule repo (Apache-2.0, 120 stars, not archived) was last pushed on 2026-06-18; the main editor repo’s last push was reported as May 2025 (earlier check).
• No 2026 release notes or vendor announcements found.

Limits

The shutdown is attributed to PitchBook (via a search listing, 2026-06-09) and to GitHub issue #36; trypear.ai still served a marketing page when fetched, so no company statement confirms it.

Sources (accessed 2026-10-02)

• https://trypear.ai (marketing page, fetched; undated)
• https://github.com/trypear/pearai-master/issues/36 (abandonment report, 2026-05-07)
• https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/679532-05 (via search listing; fetch blocked 403)
• https://www.promptquorum.com/power-local-llm/pearai-review (secondary, 2026-09)
• https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/correcting-the-record