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Cline
An open-source coding agent across VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, and a Kanban surface for parallel agent work.
Visit Cline ↗Verified ·Jul 31, 2026
- Best for
- Developers who want approval-driven IDE automation with broad model choice and client-side execution.
- Avoid if
- You want bundled, predictable model usage or a provider-neutral privacy guarantee without reviewing your chosen provider.
01 / Editorial view
Where it fits
Strengths
- Broad BYOK and local-model support
- Human approval and checkpoint workflow
- IDE, CLI, SDK, and multi-agent Kanban surfaces
Limitations
- Inference cost varies by model provider
- Hosted-provider retention and training details require separate policy review
02 / Workflow
Surfaces and capabilities
- Autocomplete
- No
- Chat
- Yes
- Agent
- Yes
- Background agent
- Yes
- Review
- Yes
- Testing
- Yes
Editors
VS Code-compatible editors, JetBrains IDEs
Operating systems
macOS, Windows, Linux
Repository hosts
GitHub
Languages
Language-agnostic
Bring your own key
Yes
Bring your own model
Yes
03 / Orchestration
Coordination model
Supported agents
Cline
Isolation
IDE checkpoints, Client-side execution
Task sources
IDE chat, CLI, Kanban
Maximum parallelism
Multiple agents through Cline Kanban
- Planning
- Yes
- Scheduling
- Unknown
- Agent communication
- Unknown
- Review gates
- Yes
- CI recovery
- Unknown
- Merge workflow
- Unknown
- Session persistence
- Yes
- Observability
- Yes
- Human approval
- Yes
04 / Cost and deployment
What it costs to run
Individual
Free, open-source client; pay the chosen model provider or Cline inference rates.
Team
Use shared provider and policy controls; no stable team starting price is published.
Enterprise
Contact Cline.
There is no required individual subscription; model inference is a separate cost.
05 / Privacy
Data handling
- Code processing
- BYOK requests are sent from the client to the configured provider; Cline’s hosted provider is an optional alternative.
- Indexing
- Unknown
- Retention
- Unknown
- Training policy
- Unknown
- Enterprise controls
- SSO, RBAC, VPC deployment options, Centralized billing, Native IDE secret storage
06 / Evidence
Primary sources
- Cline repository and product overview ↗Checked Jul 31, 2026classification, compatibility, capabilities, orchestration, deployment
- Cline pricing ↗Checked Jul 31, 2026pricing, classification.audience, privacy.enterprise_controls
- Cline authentication and provider setup ↗Checked Jul 31, 2026models, privacy, deployment
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