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Autonomous coding agent right in your IDE, capable of creating/editing files, executing commands, using the browser, and more with your permission every step of the way.

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The Lens

By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.

Updated Oct 2026

Cline is an open source coding agent: it reads your project, edits files, runs terminal commands and drives a browser, asking approval for each step unless you switch on auto-approve. It ships as a VS Code extension, CLI, desktop app and SDK, all Apache 2.0, plus a JetBrains plugin. Bring your own key from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google or OpenRouter, or run a local model through Ollama, and the agent costs nothing.

Install from the VS Code Marketplace or npm i -g cline. Version 4 added a marketplace for skills, MCP servers and plugins, and Cline Cloud runs up to 10 tasks at once in remote sandboxes that push to a branch. Unlike GitHub Copilot or Cursor, it doesn't tie you to one editor or model vendor.

Two ways to pay. ClinePass is $9.99/month for bundled open-weight models (GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek, Qwen and others) with no keys to manage. Enterprise is custom-priced: SSO, role-based access, central billing and VPC or on-prem deployment. Solo and small teams: free plus your own key. Organizations needing SSO: Enterprise.

The catch: tokens are the real bill, and an agent that reads whole codebases burns them fast. The JetBrains plugin is also closed source.

Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid

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Free: The Open Source tier: VS Code extension, CLI, MCP marketplace, multi-root workspaces and community support, plus the open source desktop app and SDK. No subscription or seat fee. You pay only for inference, either bring-your-own-key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter, Bedrock, Vertex, Groq, Cerebras, DeepSeek and more) or through the Cline provider at cost. Cline Cloud (browser-started agents in remote sandboxes) is available to every user, with free models to try it.

Self-hosted: Cline runs on your machine. Point it at Ollama, LM Studio or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint and inference costs nothing beyond your hardware. Enterprise customers can run it in their own VPC, on-prem or air-gapped, with inference going straight to their own Bedrock, Vertex or Azure OpenAI account.

Paid: ClinePass is $9.99/month (an additional processing fee may apply): open-weight models from Z.ai, Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, MiniMax, MiMo and Qwen with quotas pitched at 2-5x standard API rate limits, usable in other agents via a ClinePass API key. Enterprise is custom-priced: JetBrains extension, SSO, SLA, dedicated support, centralized billing, role-based access control, limits on inference providers, team management dashboard and authentication logs; the FAQ adds OIDC, SCIM, audit logs, VPC deployments and OpenTelemetry. The live pricing page shows no Teams tier.

Free agent with your own keys or a local model, so the token bill is the real price. ClinePass at $9.99/month is optional bundled model access; SSO, RBAC and team billing are Enterprise-only at a custom price.

What to do by team size

Solo: free; bring your own API key or run a local model
Small team: free with each developer on their own key, or ClinePass at $9.99/month each for cheap open-weight models
Medium team: free still works, but central billing, RBAC and SSO mean Enterprise at a custom price
Large team: Enterprise for SSO, SCIM, audit logs and VPC or on-prem deployment

Self-hosting ops:trivial

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