Open-source coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, CLI and desktop that asks approval per action; client is free, you pay for model tokens.
Developers who want to own the model and the data path rather than rent a bundled one: the client is open source and free, and bring-your-own-key sends requests straight from your environment to your chosen provider. It suits security-conscious teams, since the enterprise offering covers VPC, on-prem and air-gapped deployment with Amazon Bedrock, GCP Vertex and Azure OpenAI as named providers. The CLI's headless mode makes it usable in CI/CD and scripting, and a Kanban board runs multiple agents in parallel.
Anyone wanting one predictable invoice should skip it: there are no seat fees, so your cost is raw model tokens with no published cap, and enterprise pricing is contact-sales only. It is also the least hands-off option here — the docs state every action requires your explicit approval, so a long task means a long sequence of prompts, and Plan mode deliberately cannot modify files or run commands at all. Buyers wanting a cloud agent that picks up a ticket and opens a pull request unattended will not find that documented on the pages reviewed, and BYOK users should note the no-training commitment in the FAQ is written about inference routed through Cline's own infrastructure.
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The client is free and open source, and the FAQ says Cline itself is completely free to use — you pay for model tokens. Three paths exist: Cline credits billed at cost, bring-your-own-key where you pay your provider directly, or ClinePass at a flat $9.99 a month for curated open coding models. Team and Enterprise plans are custom quoted with no published figures.
Cline's FAQ states that when you use Cline credits for inference, your code and prompts pass through its infrastructure to reach the model and are never used to train models. The enterprise page repeats that for Cline-managed inference. With bring-your-own-key, requests go straight from your environment to your chosen provider, so that provider's own training and retention policy applies instead of Cline's.
Less than the cloud agents. The docs state that every action requires your explicit approval, and Plan mode is read-only by design: it can search and discuss but cannot modify files or run commands. Act mode does the work once you switch. Unattended use is pointed at the CLI's headless mode for CI/CD and scripting, and a Kanban board for running several agents side by side.
With bring-your-own-key you choose, including cloud providers and local runtimes, and enterprise deployments are documented against Amazon Bedrock, GCP Vertex and Azure OpenAI. ClinePass bundles a curated open-weight set listed as GLM-5.3 and GLM-5.3 Flash, Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4 Pro and V4.1 Flash, MiMo-V2.5 variants, MiniMax M3, Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor and three Qwen3 models. That roster changes; several models have been removed for capacity.
Facts sourced from the vendor’s own site, last verified 2026-10-10.
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