ClineStrong

Cline Bot Inc.

Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, and the terminal, using your own AI model keys.

Free and open source (BYOK for model costs)

Open sourceAPILocalNo sign-up

BREAF's verdict

Why BREAF recommends (or doesn't) Cline, the full guide, and the sources it was checked against are Premium.

Details

Free tier

Full VS Code extension, CLI, MCP marketplace, community support — pay only for the AI model inference you choose

Commercial use

Included in every plan

Platforms

vscode-extension, jetbrains-plugin, cli, windows, mac, linux

License

Apache-2.0

API docs

Available

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