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Cline's client is free and open source; you pay for model usage as you go, with Cline credits at cost or your own provider API key. Claude's Free plan does not include Claude Code; it starts on Pro at $17 per month billed annually or $20 monthly, and pay-as-you-go use goes through an Anthropic Console API account.
Cline runs with local models through Ollama, LM Studio or Atomic Chat, and offers Claude, GPT, Gemini, open-weight models such as GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek and Qwen, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Claude Code runs Anthropic's Claude models only and does not support routing to other models.
Cline is Apache-2.0 open source, except its JetBrains plugin, and its Enterprise plan deploys in a VPC, on-prem or air-gapped, with inference through your own cloud account or local models. Claude Code's client is proprietary, and its self-hosted environments, in public beta on Team and Enterprise, still send model inference to Anthropic.
Claude Code's Team plan is $20 per seat per month billed annually or $25 monthly, for 2 to 150 seats, with SSO and usage analytics. Cline's team features, including SSO and the admin dashboard, are on its Enterprise plan, which is custom-priced.
Claude Code documents starting, monitoring and steering tasks from the Claude app for iOS and Android, including cloud sessions that keep running after you close your laptop. Cline's background and scheduled agents run on your own machines, and its pages document no mobile app.
Both list SOC 2. Claude Code also documents ISO 27001 and HIPAA coverage on qualified Enterprise accounts with zero data retention. Cline's pages document neither; its SOC 2 listing names no report type. Cline states it does not receive or store your code when you use your own API keys.
| Claude Code | Cline | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No Claude's Free plan does not include Claude Code; Claude Code starts on Pro. The Console route is pay-as-you-go API usage. | Yes The open-source client is free. Model usage is paid separately: Cline credits (pay as you go) or your own API key with a third-party provider. Local models and limited-time free-model promotions cost nothing. |
| Free plan limits | No free plan Claude's Free plan does not include Claude Code. | Client free; AI inference paid separately (Cline credits or own API key); free models only as rotating limited-time promotions up to a usage quota Free-model usage is not available through the Cline API, and the docs say it "may be used to help improve model performance and quality". |
| Free trial (days) | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages. The plan comparison lists trials only for sales-assisted Enterprise, with no length stated. | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages |
| Trial requires credit card | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages |
| Cheapest paid plan, billed annually (per user / month) | $17.00 Pro plan, billed annually ($200 up front). | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages — ClinePass is listed only at $9.99/month; no annual billing is shown. |
| Cheapest paid plan, billed monthly (per user / month) | $20.00 Pro plan, billed monthly. | $9.99 ClinePass: an optional subscription for curated open-weight models. The Cline client itself is free; the pricing page lists no other paid plan with a price. |
| Highest listed-price plan, billed annually (per user / month) | $100.00 Team Premium seat. Max 20x ($200/month) costs more but is billed monthly only; Enterprise is $20/seat plus usage at API rates. | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages — no plan lists an annual price; Enterprise is custom-priced. |
| Minimum paid seats | 2 Team plan is for 2 to 150 seats. Pro and Max are single-user plans. | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages |
| Custom-priced enterprise plan | Yes Enterprise lists US$20/seat/month billed annually plus usage at API rates; the sales-assisted route gives a tailored quote. | Yes Enterprise plan is priced "Custom" with a Contact Sales button. |
| Claude Code | Cline | |
|---|---|---|
| Web app | Yes Claude Code on the web (claude.ai/code) runs cloud sessions; Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise premium or Chat + Claude Code seats. | Yes Cline Kanban (research preview) is a browser board served locally after `npx kanban` / `cline --kanban`; no vendor-hosted web IDE is documented. |
| Runs on Windows | Yes CLI on Windows 10 1809+ or Windows Server 2019+ (native or WSL); Desktop app also on Windows. | Yes Via the CLI and editor extensions; Cline for Desktop also ships a Windows build (Windows support in beta). |
| Runs on macOS | Yes macOS 13.0 or later. | Yes Via the CLI and editor extensions; Cline for Desktop (beta) ships for macOS (Apple Silicon & Intel). |
| Runs on Linux | Yes CLI on Ubuntu 20.04+, Debian 10+, Alpine Linux 3.19+. The Desktop app on Linux is in beta. | Yes Via the CLI and editor extensions; Cline for Desktop (beta) is listed for macOS and Windows only. |
| iOS app | Yes The Claude app is a client for cloud sessions and Remote Control of local sessions; code does not run on the phone. | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages |
| Android app | Yes The Claude app is a client for cloud sessions and Remote Control of local sessions; code does not run on the phone. | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages |
| Browser extension | Yes Claude in Chrome extension (Chrome, Edge, other Chromium browsers) lets Claude Code drive the browser for testing; requires a claude.ai login, not an API key. | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages |
| Claude Code | Cline | |
|---|---|---|
| Own standalone code editor | Yes Claude Desktop's Code tab: an agent app with a file-editor pane, diff viewer and terminal. Not a full IDE and not a fork of another editor. | No Cline runs inside existing editors. Cline for Desktop (beta) is a standalone agent app for macOS and Windows, not a code editor. |
| Extension for VS Code | Yes Requires VS Code 1.94.0 or later. | Yes Free and open source; installed from the VS Code Marketplace (Open VSX for Windsurf and VSCodium). |
| Plugin for JetBrains IDEs | Yes IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, Android Studio, WebStorm, PhpStorm, GoLand and others; the plugin runs the CLI in the IDE terminal. | Yes Labelled "Early Access". The pricing page lists "JetBrains Extension" under Enterprise features, while the IDE page and docs offer it to everyone. Unlike the rest of Cline, the JetBrains plugin is not open source. |
| Command-line (terminal) agent | Yes The CLI is the most complete surface; scripting and the Agent SDK are CLI-only. | Yes Installed with `npm i -g cline`; interactive, one-shot and headless (CI/CD) modes. |
| Other editors supported | Cursor, Devin Desktop, Kiro and other VS Code forks (via the VS Code extension); any editor's terminal via the CLI Cursor has its own install link on the same page. | Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium, Antigravity (extension); Zed, Neovim, Emacs and other ACP clients (via the CLI) The ACP docs also cover Emacs (agent-shell) and JetBrains AI Assistant, which can run Cline through the CLI with `cline --acp`. |
| Claude Code | Cline | |
|---|---|---|
| Inline code completion (autocomplete) | No Stated for the Desktop app; no Claude Code surface documents as-you-type completion. It works through prompts and agent edits. | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages |
| Agent that edits across multiple files | Yes | Yes Plan mode drafts a strategy; Act mode makes the edits, with per-step approval or auto-approve. |
| Agent runs terminal commands | Yes Asks permission before running commands unless a permission mode allows it. | Yes |
| Cloud / background agents | Yes Cloud sessions on Pro, Max and Team, and for Enterprise users with premium or Chat + Claude Code seats; not available through third-party providers. | Yes Runs on your own machines, not in vendor cloud: CLI Zen mode, cron-scheduled agents and parallel Kanban agents run through a local hub process, and headless runs work in CI. Not available in the VS Code or JetBrains extension. No vendor-hosted cloud agents are documented. |
| Pull request code review | Yes Managed GitHub PR review is a research preview on Team and Enterprise, billed separately through usage credits (about $15-25 per review). Other plans can review a diff locally with /code-review. | Yes A GitHub Actions workflow you set up yourself with the Cline CLI, paying only for inference. Not a separate managed review product. |
| Codebase indexing / semantic code search | No Uses agentic search (file-pattern and regex search) at run time instead of a code index. | No By design, Cline reads files and runs ripgrep-powered search instead of building an index or embeddings. |
| MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers | Yes | Yes Includes an MCP Marketplace for one-click installs. Enterprise can allowlist MCP servers. |
| Project rules / custom instruction files | Yes CLAUDE.md files and .claude/rules/; also reads AGENTS.md. | Yes Also supports global custom instructions and Skills. |
| Checkpoints to roll back agent edits | Yes Rewind with /rewind or Esc twice. Files changed by Bash commands are not tracked. | Yes Enabled by default; kept in a shadow Git repository separate from your project history. |
| Claude Code | Cline | |
|---|---|---|
| User can choose the AI model | Yes Switch with /model or claude --model. | Yes |
| Model families offered | Anthropic Claude only: Fable, Opus, Sonnet, Haiku Opus requires a paid plan; Fable draws on usage credits on Pro and 50% of weekly limits on Max. Non-Claude models are not supported. | Claude, GPT, Gemini, open-weight models (GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek, MiniMax, MiMo, Qwen), local models, any OpenAI-compatible endpoint The ClinePass page lists open-weight models from Z.ai (GLM), Moonshot AI (Kimi), DeepSeek, MiniMax, MiMo and Qwen. The pricing FAQ adds provider routes: OpenRouter, AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex, Groq, Cerebras and Vercel AI Gateway. The docs list 30+ further providers. |
| Bring your own API key | Yes Anthropic Console API key, or your own Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Agent Platform or Microsoft Foundry account; usage billed by that provider. | Yes Available on the free open-source plan. |
| Local / self-hosted models | No Claude models only, served by the Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Agent Platform or Microsoft Foundry. | Yes |
| How paid-plan usage is limited | Usage pool shared with Claude chat: limits reset every 5 hours, plus weekly caps; optional usage credits at API rates Max = 5x or 20x Pro usage; Team Premium = 5x Standard. Enterprise and Console usage is billed per token at API rates. | Pay-as-you-go inference credits at model cost, or your own API keys; ClinePass quota measured over 5-hour, weekly and monthly windows The pricing page lists "Purchase and Model Inference at Cost or BYOK". ClinePass ($9.99/month) measures usage against a 5-hour rolling window, the calendar week and the calendar month. |
| Open-source client | No The public GitHub repo holds issues, changelog, plugins and examples; the client is proprietary. | Yes Apache-2.0. The GitHub README says the JetBrains plugin is not open-sourced. |
| Claude Code | Cline | |
|---|---|---|
| Zero data retention option | Yes Enterprise only, for qualified accounts; not default and not in the standard Enterprise plan. Anthropic enables it per organization after an eligibility check. | Yes Applies when you use your own API keys and route model calls through infrastructure you control, on any plan including the free one. Your model provider's retention terms still apply. No zero-retention commitment is documented for Cline-managed inference. |
| Code excluded from model training | Yes Team, Enterprise, API and cloud-platform use. Free, Pro and Max accounts are used for training when the user's model-improvement setting is on (opt-out). | Yes Conditions: Terms §3.5 say third-party AI model providers "may use User Content for training unless you have explicitly opted out". The free-models docs say free-model usage "may be used to help improve model performance and quality". |
| Self-hosted or on-premises deployment | Yes Self-hosted environments run cloud sessions on your own infrastructure (public beta, Team and Enterprise); model inference still goes to api.anthropic.com. The CLI itself runs locally. | Yes Enterprise. Inference can run through your own Amazon Bedrock, GCP Vertex, Azure OpenAI or local models. |
| Team admin dashboard and usage analytics | Yes Team and Enterprise at claude.ai/analytics/claude-code (Admins and Owners), and Console for API customers; seat management on Team and Enterprise. | Yes Enterprise plan. The enterprise docs list per-team cost breakdowns, real-time analytics and OpenTelemetry export. |
| Claude Code | Cline | |
|---|---|---|
| Listed integrations | 313 Plugins in the Claude Marketplace directory filtered to 'Works with: Claude Code' (bundles of tools, skills and MCP integrations); 337 across Claude and Claude Code. | 199 MCP server cards in the "All" tab of the vendor's public MCP Marketplace (198 distinct names). The page states no total. Servers install through the Cline extension, and any other MCP server can be added by hand. |
| Public API | Yes Agent SDK (CLI, Python and TypeScript packages). | Yes TypeScript SDK (@cline/sdk). Also an OpenAI-compatible Cline API for model access and an Enterprise admin REST API. |
| Single sign-on (SSO) | Yes Team and Enterprise plans; not on Pro or Max. | Yes Enterprise plan. SSO runs through WorkOS (Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace, generic SAML/OIDC). The pricing FAQ also lists SCIM provisioning. |
| Two-factor authentication | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages |
| SOC 2 report | Yes SOC 2 Type I and Type II; report available from the Anthropic Trust Center. | Yes Listed under "Compliance" on the vendor Trust Center (Vanta). The Trust Center names no report type or date and offers no downloadable SOC 2 report (resources: Engagement Letter, Code of Conduct). |
| ISO 27001 certification | Yes ISO 27001:2022; also ISO/IEC 42001:2023. | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages |
| HIPAA compliance offered | Yes Enterprise only. Claude Code is under the BAA only when zero data retention is enabled on a qualified account. | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages |
| Claude Code | Cline | |
|---|---|---|
| Support channels | In-app support messenger (Fin AI bot, then Product Support team) and email No phone or live-chat support. Sales-assisted Enterprise adds customer success at certain spend thresholds. | Support contact form, email (support@cline.bot), Discord community, GitHub Issues and Discussions; dedicated support and SLA on Enterprise The pricing page lists "Community Support" for the open-source plan and "SLA" and "Dedicated Support" for Enterprise. The Terms give support@cline.bot. |
| 24/7 support | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages |
| Vendor (legal entity) | Anthropic, PBC Contracting entity is Anthropic Ireland, Limited for customers in the EEA, Switzerland and the UK. | Cline Bot Inc. Terms name Delaware as the governing jurisdiction. |
| Founded | 2021 | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States Registered address per the privacy policy, which also states the company is headquartered in the United States. | Not documented Not documented on vendor pages |
| Claude Code plan | Billed annually | Billed monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Pro Per month Individual plan; Claude Code included. Annual billing is $200 up front. Usage limits shared with Claude chat. | $17.00 | $20.00 |
| Max 5x Per month Individual plan; 5x the usage of Pro per 5-hour session. Billed monthly only. | Not offered | $100.00 |
| Max 20x Per month Individual plan; 20x the usage of Pro per 5-hour session. Billed monthly only. | Not offered | $200.00 |
| Team (Standard seat) Teams of 2 to 150; Claude Code included; more usage than Pro. SSO, central billing, usage analytics. | $20.00 | $25.00 |
| Team (Premium seat) 5x more usage than Standard seats; seat types can be mixed within one Team plan. | $100.00 | $125.00 |
| Enterprise Per user / month + usage at API rates Seat price plus all usage billed at API rates; billed annually only. Self-serve or sales-assisted (tailored quote). Adds SCIM, audit logs, custom data retention, role-based access. | $20.00 | Not offered |
| Claude API (Console) Pay as you go (per million tokens) Claude Code billed at standard API token prices through a Claude Console account; no per-seat fee. Listed API prices per million input/output tokens: Haiku 4.5 $1/$5, Sonnet 5 $2/$10, Opus 5.5 $4/$20, Fable 5.1 $10/$50. | Pay as you go | Pay as you go |
| Cline plan | Billed annually | Billed monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Open Source Free; AI inference billed separately (pay as you go) For individual developers: VS Code extension, CLI, MCP Marketplace, community support. The client is free; model usage is paid per use with Cline credits at cost or with your own provider API keys. | Free | Free |
| Enterprise Custom (contact sales) Price listed as "Custom". Adds JetBrains extension (per the pricing page), SSO, SLA, dedicated support, centralized billing, simple config management, role-based access control, limiting inference providers, team management dashboard and authentication logs. | Custom | Custom |
| ClinePass Per month Optional subscription on its own page (not on the pricing page) for curated open-weight models from Z.ai, Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, MiniMax, MiMo and Qwen, with 2-5x the usage of standard API rates; quota measured over a 5-hour rolling window, the calendar week and the calendar month. Only monthly billing is listed. Page footnotes: "Standard rate $9.99 per month after promotion period" and "Additional processing fee may apply". | Not offered | $9.99 |
Per user per month unless the plan states otherwise, as listed on each vendor's pricing page.