Cline
Cline Bot Inc. class C live
Open-source (Apache-2.0) autonomous coding agent for VS Code/JetBrains; BYO API key, Plan/Act modes, no model of its own.
Layer 1 — factual axes
| Pricing | free (tool; BYO API key, pay provider token costs) | official | source ↗ 2026-07-04 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Model | BYO / multi-model (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, local) | official | source ↗ 2026-07-04 |
| Agentic | yes | official | source ↗ 2026-07-04 |
| Open source | open · Apache-2.0 | official | source ↗ 2026-07-04 |
| Form | IDE plugin | official | source ↗ 2026-07-04 |
| Free tier | open self-host | official | source ↗ 2026-07-04 |
Layer 2 — output quality
No independent measure yet. We publish a quality figure only when a named external benchmark ranks this model — we don’t invent one.
Open-source (Apache-2.0) autonomous coding agent for VS Code/JetBrains; BYO API key, Plan/Act modes, no model of its own.