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Cline

Who runs Cline, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest AI coding assistant alternatives.

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs Cline

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Open-source AI coding agent with Plan/Act modes, MCP integration, and terminal-first workflows. Trusted by 11M+ developers worldwide.

Wikidata: Visual Studio Code extension for AI coding assistants

Company
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Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What Cline tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 19 alternatives below has fewer; 12 have more.

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03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to Cline

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  1. 01
    Cursor cursor.com Top 10K English Free plan 2 trackers

    AI Coding Agent for Building Ambitious Software | Cursor

    Built to make you extraordinarily productive, agents turn ideas into code. Accelerate development by handing off tasks to Cursor.

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  2. 02
    OpenCode opencode.ai Top 10K English 1 tracker

    OpenCode | The open source AI coding agent

    OpenCode - The open source coding agent.

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  3. 03
    Aider aider.chat English No trackers

    Aider - AI Pair Programming in Your Terminal

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  4. 04
    GitHub github.com Top 100 English Free plan 2 trackers

    GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead. · GitHub · GitHub

    Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.

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  5. 05
    Devin codeium.com English No trackers

    Devin Desktop | Devin

    Manage any agent, locally or in the cloud, from one command center. Plan, review, and ship with a team of agents.

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    E2B e2b.dev English 1 tracker

    E2B | The Enterprise AI Agent Cloud

    The AI Agent Cloud. An isolated machine for every AI agent: run code, browse, use tools, pause, fork. In our cloud or your AWS, GCP, or Azure account. 100K+ teams, 2B+ sandboxes started.

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  7. 07
    Mistral mistral.ai English 2 trackers

    Mistral | #1 in Sovereign AI: Frontier Open Models You Own

    Frontier open-weight models you own and control. Customize with Forge, deploy with Studio, run on-prem, your VPC, or our cloud.

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  8. 08
    GitLab gitlab.com Top 1K English Free plan 2 trackers

    GitLab - Speed with control for agentic software engineering

    Teams and agents ship trusted software faster with GitLab, the intelligent orchestration platform with context and governance for the entire software lifecycle.

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  9. 09
    Make make.com English 1 tracker

    AI Workflow Automation Software & Tools | Make

    Automate your work. Make allows you to visually build, scale and automate AI and agentic workflows. User friendly no-code integration tool. Try it now for free!

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  10. 10
    DeepSeek deepseek.com Top 1K English No trackers

    DeepSeek | Into the Unknown

    DeepSeek is an AI research company focused on building world-leading general artificial intelligence. We develop and open-source frontier LLMs including DeepSeek-V4, DeepSeek-R1, and DeepSeek-Coder. Chat with DeepSeek AI or integrate via API.

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  11. 11
    Nomic gpt4all.io English 4 trackers

    GPT4All - Private & Local AI Chatbot | Nomic

    Run open-source AI models locally on your device. GPT4All delivers private, high-performance AI with no cloud required—your data stays on your machine.

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    Retool retool.com English Free plan 2 trackers

    Build internal software better, with AI. | Retool

    Build, deploy, and manage internal tools with Retool's unified engine. Connect to any database, API, or LLM. Leverage AI throughout your business.

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  13. 13
    Activepieces activepieces.com English No trackers

    Activepieces: unify your team's AI

    Chat, agents, flows, tables, and 770+ apps in one workspace, so your whole team works with AI in the tools they already use. Open source at the core.

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  14. 14
    JetBrains jetbrains.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    JetBrains: Essential tools for software developers and teams

    JetBrains is a cutting-edge software vendor specializing in the creation of intelligent development tools, including IntelliJ IDEA – the leading Java IDE, and the Kotlin programming language.

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  15. 15
    LM Studio lmstudio.ai English No trackers

    LM Studio Bionic - Agent for Work and Code

    Bionic is LM Studio's agent for work and code. Create documents, slides, PDFs, and software with local or frontier open models.

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  16. 16
    Appian appian.com English 2 trackers

    AI-Powered Process Orchestration Across the Enterprise | Appian

    AI automation for critical processes. Appian orchestrates AI agents, systems, and people on an enterprise platform, without replacing your systems.

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  17. 17
    CodeSandbox codesandbox.io English No trackers

    CodeSandbox: Instant Cloud Development Environments

    CodeSandbox is a cloud development platform that empowers developers to code, collaborate and ship projects of any size from any device in record time.

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  18. 18
    Zapier zapier.com Top 10K English 3 trackers

    Zapier: Automate AI Workflows, Agents, and Apps

    Build and scale AI workflows and agents across 9,000+ apps with Zapier—the most connected AI orchestration platform. Trusted by 3 million+ businesses.

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  19. 19
    Knime knime.com English 3 trackers

    Open for Innovation | KNIME

    Free and open source with all your data analysis tools. Create data science solutions with the visual workflow builder & put them into production in the enterprise.

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  20. 20
    SourceHut sourcehut.org English No trackers

    sourcehut - the hacker's forge

    sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.

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04 · History

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05 · Details

How we measure

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