Claude Code vs Cline

Claude Code is Anthropic's official terminal agent. Cline is an open-source VS Code agent supporting any LLM.

Agentic coding in your terminal

API pricing

Autonomous coding agent in VS Code

$0 Free tier

# Feature Comparison

Claude Code

25/50

50%

1W-0T-4L

Cline

45/50

90%

Code Quality

9:8

Interface

6:9

LLM Choice

3:10

Cost

5:8

Open Source

2:10

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It depends on your use case.

Claude Code for best quality on complex tasks. Cline for flexibility, visual interface, and model choice.

Feature	Claude Code	Cline
Pricing	API pricing — $200/mo	$0 — $0
Free Tier	No	Yes
Open Source	No	Yes
Platforms	cli	vscode
IDE Support	Terminal, VS Code (extension)	VS Code
LLMs	Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Claude 3 Opus, Claude 3.5 Haiku	Claude, GPT-4, DeepSeek, Any OpenRouter model
Rating	4.7/5	4.5/5