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Open-source autonomous coding agent inside VS Code.

Current version

v3

Entry cost

Free client, bring your own model key

Changes / 30d

0

The short answers

What is the latest version of Cline?
The current shipped version of Cline is v3.
How much does Cline cost?
Cline has no published flat entry price. Free client, bring your own model key
What AI model does Cline use?
Cline runs primarily on Claude Sonnet 4.5.

Source: Cline (no public source page recorded) · Reusable under CC BY 4.0 — cite Tomorrow

Capabilities

  • Plan/act modes
  • MCP tools
  • Terminal control

Pricing

Free client, bring your own model key

Entry price over time

Not enough pricing history yet — we start charting from the second observation.

Geek mode

Models under the hood

  • Claude Sonnet 4.5

    Anthropic

    disclosed

  • Gemini 2.5 Pro

    Google

    disclosed

Context window

—

Public API

no

Multi-model routing

no

Stack signals

  • VS Code extension
  • MCP
  • OpenRouter

Shared model stack

Other tracked products running on the same foundation models — a quick read on how much of the catalog moves when one of these models changes.

green disclosed · amber inferred · grey unattributed. Aliases are folded into one model; provider concentration counts only models with an established vendor.

Reported scale

Reference data. Each figure is whatever the source actually said — weekly users, downloads, revenue run-rate — with its own definition and date. These are not comparable between tools and are never used to rank anything.

No public usage figure on record for this product.

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Change history

No changes recorded yet.

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Cline compared

Straight head-to-head pages against the busiest products in Coding.

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How to cite this page

Free to cite and reuse under CC BY 4.0. Permalink: https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/cline

APA
Tomorrow. (2026). Cline — version, pricing and model stack [Data set entry]. AlienSquad. Retrieved 2026-11-08, from https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/cline
BibTeX
@misc{tomorrow-tools-cline,
  author       = {{Tomorrow}},
  title        = {Cline — version, pricing and model stack},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {AlienSquad},
  howpublished = {\url{https://tomorrow.aliensquad.ai/tools/cline}},
  note         = {Accessed: 2026-11-08}
}