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Cline
Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, the terminal and desktop, plus an SDK; bring your own model.
- Cline
- Local or cloud
- Free, open source
Where it ranks
- BCodingEditors & extensions · Local · via DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017With cloud models: tier S (via Claude Opus 5.5)
Tools without a benchmark of their own inherit the tier of the best model they offer.
Facts
- Vendor
- Cline
- Approach
- Editors & extensions
- Where it runs
- Runs fully on your hardware with local models; cloud models optional
- Interface
- IDE extension, Command line, Desktop app
- Skill level
- Intermediate: some setup or configuration
- Price
- Free, open source
- Pricing notes
- Free for individual developers; you pay only for AI inference (own API key or Cline provider, usage-based). JetBrains plugin is not open source.
- Source code
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
- GitHub stars
- 70.5k (18 Oct 2026)
- Last verified
- 18 Oct 2026
Price from cline.bot, 18 Oct 2026.
Models it gives you
- SClaude Opus 5.5Anthropic · closed
- SGPT-6 AstraOpenAI · closed
- SClaude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic · closed
- AGPT-6.1 SolOpenAI · closed
- BDeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017DeepSeek · open weights
- BQwen3.8-2.4T-A95BAlibaba (Qwen) · open weights
- CQwen3.8-27BAlibaba (Qwen) · open weights
- CDeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813DeepSeek · open weights
- CGemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)Google · closed