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Cline

The Open Coding Agent

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Overview

What Cline does

Open source AI coding agent for VS Code, the terminal, and SDK with plan and act workflows.

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Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Cline.

  • Enterprise tier pricing is gated behind a sales contact; only the open source free tier and usage based inference credits are self serve, as of August 2026.

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