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Cline Review 2026

AI Infrastructure & Agents·AI Coding Assistants·freeFree tier

The Open Coding Agent

What is Cline?

An open-source AI coding agent that runs in your editor, terminal, or SDK with plan-and-act execution. Works with every major model and supports multi-file edits, bash commands, and MCP.

Best for

Mixed

Use cases

  • AI-assisted coding
  • Codebase refactoring
  • CI/CD automation

Key features

Multi-file edits
Bash command execution
Plan and Act modes
Rules and Skills
MCP support

Pricing

Model
free
Price range
Apache 2.0 open source; bring your own model key
Free tier
Yes

Integrations

Cline integrates with 8 tools including:

ClaudeGPTGeminiOllamaSlackLinearGitHub ActionsMCP

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