Cline Alternatives
11 alternatives to Cline — comparable AI coding tools for building with AI agents.
Aider
Open-source terminal AI pair programmer that edits files in your Git repo and auto-commits each change, working with Claude, GPT, and other models you bring.
Augment Code
AI coding assistant built for large, real-world codebases — a Context Engine that indexes the whole repo, with agents, chat, and completions in IDEs and a CLI.
Claude Code
Anthropic’s official agentic coding tool that runs in the terminal, IDE, and web.
Cody
Sourcegraph's AI coding assistant for the IDE, grounded in deep codebase context.
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An open-source IDE extension for building custom AI coding assistants.
Cursor
An AI-first code editor built on VS Code with deep in-editor agent features, parallel agents, in-house Composer models, and a plugin marketplace.
Github Copilot
GitHub’s AI pair programmer with inline completions and an agent mode.
Kilo Code
Open-source AI coding agent extension for VS Code and JetBrains, built as a superset of Roo Code and Cline, with bring-your-own-key and zero model markup.
Roo Code
A discontinued open-source VS Code agent (a Cline fork); the team has since pivoted away from the IDE extension.
Tabby
Self-hosted, open-source AI coding assistant by TabbyML — run your own completion and chat models on your infrastructure, with IDE extensions.
Tabnine
An AI code completion and chat assistant built around code privacy, self-hosting, and air-gapped enterprise deployment.