Cline (framework)
Open-source autonomous coding agent shipped as a VS Code/JetBrains extension, CLI (headless for CI) and Node SDK (@cline/sdk) — file edits, terminal, browser, MCP tools.
Active · Verified 2026-10-26 · fresh as of 2026-10-26 · 37 cited facts, 2 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Autonomous VS Code coding agent vendor fix
- Tier
- T1
- Latest release
- searched not found fix
- License
- Apache-2.0 vendor fix
- Pricing
- searched not found fix
- Funding
- Cline (formerly Claude Dev) raised $32M Series A 2025-04 (Pace Capital + 776 led); $32M valuation per reports. vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-26 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- open-source vendor fix
- SDK languages
- typescript vendor fix
- Protocols
- mcp-client, opentelemetry vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 76.07 (12-mo avg 90.04) · 446 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
Optimised for: searched not found
Anti-fit: searched not found
Pros & cons
Pros
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Cons
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Claims & capabilities
$32M Series A 2025-04; ~30k VS Code installs; agentic coding extension.
Technical surface
- API surface
- searched not found
- Backend storage
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Deployment
- Self-hosted only — local IDE extension / CLI / SDK with bring-your-own model keys
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- yes — official MCP client (connects MCP servers; managed via `cline mcp`)
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Sources (36 cited facts, 2 third-party)
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- What it is Autonomous VS Code coding agent vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Open-source autonomous coding agent shipped as a VS Code/JetBrains extension, CLI (headl… repo
- Claims / benefits $32M Series A 2025-04; ~30k VS Code installs; agentic coding extension. vendor
- Created 2024 vendor
- License Apache-2.0 vendor
- GitHub cline/cline — ~67.6k stars, last commit not retrieved (not archived) repo
- Funding Cline (formerly Claude Dev) raised $32M Series A 2025-04 (Pace Capital + 776 led); $32M … vendor
- Deployment Self-hosted only — local IDE extension / CLI / SDK with bring-your-own model keys repo
- Founders / pedigree Saoud Rizwan (CEO); founded 2024; VS Code coding-agent extension. vendor
- Code/weights release Active — last commit 2026-05 · 61,685★ repo
- MCP support yes — official MCP client (connects MCP servers; managed via `cline mcp`) repo
- Runtimes TypeScript / Node.js (@cline/sdk, CLI) repo
- obs-helicone yes third-party
- obs-custom Custom OpenAI base-URL config supports any OpenAI-proxy observability tool vendor
- cost-token-budget yes vendor
- cost-prompt-caching yes vendor
- cost-semantic-caching no vendor
- cost-batching no vendor
- cost-model-routing yes vendor
- cost-streaming-only no vendor
- cost-observability-cost-attribution yes vendor
- eval-langsmith-evals no vendor
- eval-braintrust no vendor
- eval-weights-and-biases-agent no vendor
- eval-helicone-evals no vendor
- eval-custom-test-harness no vendor
- eval-human-loop no vendor
- eval-production-traffic-replay no vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus ide vendor
- licensing-bucket open-source vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product both vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":914.65,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":90.04,"openrank_current":76.07,"par… third-party
- compliance-certifications gdpr vendor
- sdk-languages typescript vendor
- protocol-support mcp-client,opentelemetry vendor
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