Cline

Open-source agentic AI coding assistant for your existing editor

TOP SCORE™

39/100

#6 of 10 AI Coding Assistants

Medium confidence

Score breakdown

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External Reputation
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AI Authority
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Web Authority18
  • 5 web authority signals
  • average citing-domain authority 35
Expert Assessment67
  • 100% of the category rubric covered
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Explanation

Why Cline ranks #6

Cline ranks #6 of 10 ai coding assistants with a TOP SCORE of 39.

The category leader scores 73, a gap of 34 points.

That is 7 points below the category average of 46.

Its strongest component is Expert Assessment at 67; its weakest is Web Authority at 18.

No usable evidence was found for External Reputation, AI Authority, TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.

Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.

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3939 0.0

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Company information

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Description
Cline is an open-source AI coding agent that runs inside VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, a CLI and an SDK, reading and writing files, running terminal commands and using a browser with explicit human approval on every action. It is bring-your-own-key by design, so teams choose their own model provider and pay inference at cost rather than a per-seat subscription. It targets developers and security-conscious engineering teams that want multi-file agentic changes without switching editors or handing code to a hosted service.
Products
Cline VS Code extension, Cline JetBrains plugin (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand — Enterprise tier), Cline CLI, Cline SDK, ClinePass inference subscription, MCP Marketplace, Web-based multi-agent task board (Kanban)
Markets
Individual developers, SMB, Enterprise, Security-sensitive engineering teams
Integrations
Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex AI, Groq, Cerebras, Vercel AI Gateway, DeepSeek, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs
Pricing
ClinePass: USD $4.99 first month, then USD $9.99/month · free tier: Open Source plan is free for individual developers: VS Code extension, CLI, client-side architecture, model inference at cost or BYOK, MCP Marketplace, multi-root workspaces, community support pricing page ↗
Regulatory
Vendor is Cline Bot Inc.; the VS Code extension still carries the legacy identifier saoudrizwan.claude-dev from its Claude Dev era. 'Open source' applies to the core, VS Code extension, CLI and SDK — JetBrains plugins are explicitly not open-sourced. Enterprise tier advertises SSO, OIDC, SCIM provisioning, audit logs and VPC deployment. The Apache-2.0 license file and any SOC 2 or ISO 27001 attestation could not be retrieved and should be confirmed before procurement rather than assumed.
Official website
https://cline.bot
Last verified
31 Aug 2026

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  • Category leader73
  • Category average46
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