Cline
The open coding agent
An open-source coding agent best known as a VS Code extension, now also shipped as a native desktop app, a CLI, and an SDK. Individuals use it free and pay only for AI inference, or bring their own API keys.Editorial
cline.bot
cline.bot/pricing: "Cline is free for individual developers. Pay only for AI inference on a usage basis - no subscriptions".
https://cline.bot/pricing ↗cline.bot
cline.bot: "One open source agent runtime. Use it in your editor, your terminal, or embed it in your own products." "Cline for Desktop: the coding agent as a native desktop app."
https://cline.bot ↗cline.bot
cline.bot/pricing: the free Open Source plan lists "VS Code Extension"; Enterprise adds "JetBrains Extension".
https://cline.bot/pricing ↗cline.bot
cline.bot/pricing, Enterprise "Custom": "SSO, SLA & Dedicated Support".
https://cline.bot/pricing ↗cline.bot
cline.bot/pricing: "You only pay for AI inference credits when you use AI models." "You can bring your own API keys".
https://cline.bot/pricing ↗Pricing
USD · list price · monthly billing unless notedNo price for Cline has been verified yet.
6 logged changes over 415 days, verified 6 days ago.
- 1 verified change · 30d
- 3 active days · 90d
- 1 kind of change: releases
- Latest change 21 days ago
- Recent active days · weight 70
- 37.3 / 70
- Kinds of change · weight 30
- 6.2 / 30
- 30 Oct 202632
- 31 Oct 202632
- 1 Nov 202647
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Recorded daily since 11 Oct 2026; earlier values are never reconstructed.
- Release
Cline begins rolling out Cline Cloud sessions
Cline 4.1.25 starts a gradual rollout of Cloud sessions: tasks run in a hosted sandbox on a chosen GitHub repo and branch and keep running after the editor closes.
github.com
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 16 Oct 2026Cline — GitHub releaseshttps://github.com/cline/cline/releases/tag/v4.1.25 ↗ - Release
Cline for Desktop cloud sessions get the same models as Cline on the web
Cloud sessions can use Cline Usage-Billing, ClinePass, and ClineFree models, and a new cloud session waits until a model is ready before sending.
github.com
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 2 Oct 2026Cline — GitHub releaseshttps://github.com/cline/cline/releases/tag/desktop-v0.0.41 ↗ - Release
Cline releases Cline Desktop, an open-source app for open-weight models
Cline releases an early version of Cline Desktop, an open-source desktop app focused on open-weight models, available for Mac with a Windows beta.
cline.bot
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 14 Sept 2026Cline — bloghttps://cline.bot/blog/cline-desktop-an-open-source-app-for-open-weight-models ↗
- Recent changes
- 1 verified change in the last 30 days · 0 in 7 · 3 in 90. Latest 16 Oct 2026 (21 days ago).
- 7d (evidence for recent changes)30d (evidence for recent changes)90d (evidence for recent changes)Latest (evidence for recent changes)
- vs segment · 30d
- The same as the IDE assistants median of 1 per tool.
- Cline (evidence for vs segment · 30d)IDE assistants (evidence for vs segment · 30d)
- List price
- No price has been verified.
- Release
Cline begins rolling out Cline Cloud sessions
Cline 4.1.25 starts a gradual rollout of Cloud sessions: tasks run in a hosted sandbox on a chosen GitHub repo and branch and keep running after the editor closes.
github.com
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 16 Oct 2026Cline — GitHub releaseshttps://github.com/cline/cline/releases/tag/v4.1.25 ↗ - Release
Cline for Desktop cloud sessions get the same models as Cline on the web
Cloud sessions can use Cline Usage-Billing, ClinePass, and ClineFree models, and a new cloud session waits until a model is ready before sending.
github.com
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 2 Oct 2026Cline — GitHub releaseshttps://github.com/cline/cline/releases/tag/desktop-v0.0.41 ↗ - Release
Cline releases Cline Desktop, an open-source app for open-weight models
Cline releases an early version of Cline Desktop, an open-source desktop app focused on open-weight models, available for Mac with a Windows beta.
cline.bot
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 14 Sept 2026Cline — bloghttps://cline.bot/blog/cline-desktop-an-open-source-app-for-open-weight-models ↗ - Plans
Cline launches ClinePass, a $9.99/month subscription for open-weight models
Cline introduces ClinePass, a monthly subscription bundling curated open-weight models with higher API rate limits across its IDE, CLI and SDK surfaces, priced at $9.99 per month.
cline.bot
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 29 Jun 2026Cline — bloghttps://cline.bot/blog/clinepass-best-of-value-for-open-weight-models ↗ - Plans
Cline launches Enterprise and sets Teams pricing at $20 per user after 10 seats
Cline announces Cline Enterprise with sales-quoted pricing and a Teams tier that is free through 2025, then free for up to 10 users and $20 per user per month beyond that.
cline.bot
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 20 Oct 2025Cline — bloghttps://cline.bot/blog/introducing-cline-for-enterprise ↗ - Availability
Cline becomes available natively in JetBrains IDEs
Cline announces a native extension for JetBrains IDEs including IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, Android Studio, GoLand and PhpStorm.
cline.bot
ObservedHigh confidencePublished 17 Sept 2025Cline — bloghttps://cline.bot/blog/cline-for-jetbrains ↗
Verification log2 days with observations · 12 fact and 0 price observations
- 31 Oct 20263 facts verified
- 2 Oct 20269 facts verified
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Evidence
9/9 facts verified · 11 sourcesFacts ledger
cline.bot
cline.bot: "One open source agent runtime. Use it in your editor, your terminal, or embed it in your own products." "Cline for Desktop: the coding agent as a native desktop app."
https://cline.bot ↗cline.bot
cline.bot: Cline for Desktop "Download for Mac", "Download for Windows", "Download for Linux" — "macOS, Windows & Linux".
https://cline.bot ↗cline.bot
cline.bot/pricing: the free Open Source plan lists "VS Code Extension"; Enterprise adds "JetBrains Extension".
https://cline.bot/pricing ↗cline.bot
cline.bot/pricing: "You only pay for AI inference credits when you use AI models." "You can bring your own API keys".
https://cline.bot/pricing ↗cline.bot
cline.bot/pricing: "Cline is free for individual developers. Pay only for AI inference on a usage basis - no subscriptions".
https://cline.bot/pricing ↗cline.bot
cline.bot/pricing, Enterprise "Custom": "SSO, SLA & Dedicated Support".
https://cline.bot/pricing ↗cline.bot
cline.bot/pricing, Enterprise: "SSO", "SLA", "Dedicated Support", "Centralized Billing", "Role Based Access Control".
https://cline.bot/pricing ↗docs.cline.bot
Cline's documentation, linked as Docs from cline.bot.
https://docs.cline.bot ↗github.com
Cline release notes are published as GitHub releases of cline/cline.
https://github.com/cline/cline/releases ↗github.com
LICENSE: "Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004". README: "Apache 2.0 © 2026 Cline Bot Inc."; cline.bot/pricing FAQ: "Cline is open source."
https://github.com/cline/cline ↗cline.bot
cline.bot/enterprise: "Deploy where you want" / "VPC, on-prem, air-gapped." / "When you run Cline in your own VPC, inference requests flow directly from your environment to your chosen model providers."
https://cline.bot/enterprise ↗github.com
Public repository linked from cline.bot/enterprise.
https://github.com/cline/cline ↗Sources · first-party pages read for this record
| Source | Type | Backs |
|---|---|---|
| Cline — official pricing pagecline.bot/pricing | official site | 5 |
| Cline — GitHub releasesgithub.com/cline/cline/releases | github | 2 |
| Cline — official repositorygithub.com/cline/cline | github | 2 |
| Cline — official sitecline.bot | official site | 2 |
| Cline — blogcline.bot/blog/cline-desktop-an-open-source-app-for-open-weight-models | official site | 1 |
| Cline — blogcline.bot/blog/clinepass-best-of-value-for-open-weight-models | official site | 1 |
| Cline — blogcline.bot/blog/introducing-cline-for-enterprise | official site | 1 |
| Cline — blogcline.bot/blog/cline-for-jetbrains | official site | 1 |
| Cline — GitHub releasesgithub.com/cline/cline/releases/tag/v4.1.25 | github | 1 |
| Cline — official documentationdocs.cline.bot | official docs | 1 |
| Cline — official enterprise pagecline.bot/enterprise | official site | 1 |
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