What is Cline?
Plan-and-act agent in VS Code, Cursor, a desktop app or the CLI, with any model or your own key.
Who is Cline best for?
Cline is best for developers who want an open source coding agent that works with any model or their own API key.
Any model, local ones too
It works with Claude, GPT, Gemini, local Ollama or LM Studio models, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.
Careful, step-by-step changes
Plan mode agrees a strategy first and Act mode carries it out, with approval on every step or auto-approve, and checkpoints to undo.
Editor or terminal
The same agent runs as a VS Code, Cursor or Windsurf extension, a desktop app, a CLI or an SDK for your own product.
How much does Cline cost?
Cline is free and open source for individual developers, who pay only for model use; ClinePass adds open weight coding models for $9.99 a month, and Enterprise is custom priced.
- VS Code extension, desktop app and CLI
- Bring your own key, or buy inference at cost
- MCP Marketplace
- Open weight models such as Kimi K3, GLM 5.3 and DeepSeek V4 Pro
- No separate provider accounts or keys
- Quotas of 2 to 5 times standard API rate limits
- JetBrains extension, SSO and an SLA
- Centralized billing and role-based access
- Team dashboard and authentication logs
Cline has no subscription or seat fee for individuals: you pay your model provider, or Cline's own provider at pay-as-you-go API rates. ClinePass may add a processing fee. The code is open source under Apache 2.0. Prices are in US dollars. Full pricing on cline.bot. We checked these prices on .
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Is Cline open source?
Yes. Cline's code is public under the Apache 2.0 licence, so you can read it, change it and run it yourself.
On GitHub
71,568stars
- Last commit
- 13 Nov
- Repository age
- 2 years
- Latest release
- 26 Oct
- Licence
- Apache 2.0
- Repository
- cline/cline
What are the best Cline alternatives?
Three tools on Recaply do Cline's job.
Questions about Cline
What is ClinePass?
ClinePass is Cline's $9.99 a month subscription for open weight coding models from Z.ai, Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, MiniMax, MiMo and Qwen, used inside Cline without separate provider keys. Using Cline with your own key stays free.
Who is Cline for?
Cline is best for developers who want an open source coding agent that works with any model or their own API key.
Is Cline free?
Yes. Cline has a free Open Source plan: VS Code extension, desktop app and CLI.
How much does Cline cost?
Cline's paid plans are ClinePass at $9.99 per month.
Is Cline open source?
Yes. Cline's code is public under the Apache 2.0 licence, so you can read it, change it and run it yourself.
What are the best Cline alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Kilo Code, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode.
Where can I try Cline?
On its official website, cline.bot.
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