Alternatives
Cline alternatives
15 AI agents do some of what Cline does. Closest: Cursor, Bolt and Claude Code. Lowest listed starting price: OpenAI Codex at $8/month.
| # | Agent | In common with Cline | Agent Score | From | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cursor AI code editor with autonomous agents, cloud agents and Bugbot automated PR review. | 3 of 3 Browser Automation · Code Generation · Debugging | 53 | $20/mo · free plan | Compare → |
| 2 | Bolt Browser-based AI agent that builds, runs and deploys full-stack web apps from prompts. | 3 of 3 Browser Automation · Code Generation · Debugging | 48 | $25/mo · free plan | Compare → |
| 3 | Claude Code Agentic coding tool that reads your codebase, edits files, runs commands and opens PRs from terminal, IDE or web. | 2 of 3 Code Generation · Debugging | 77 | $20/mo | Compare → |
| 4 | OpenHands Open-source, model-agnostic platform for cloud coding agents, with hosted and self-hosted options. | 2 of 3 Code Generation · Debugging | 54 | Free plan | Compare → |
| 5 | Amp Frontier coding agent running locally or in cloud 'orbs', triggered by CI failures, issues or schedules. | 2 of 3 Code Generation · Debugging | 49 | $20/mo · free plan | Compare → |
| 6 | Augment Code Coding agent with a codebase Context Engine, CLI and AI code review for GitHub PRs. | 2 of 3 Code Generation · Debugging | 49 | $20/mo | Compare → |
| 7 | GitHub Copilot AI pair programmer with agent mode, cloud coding agent and code review across IDEs, CLI and GitHub. | 2 of 3 Code Generation · Debugging | 49 | $10/mo · free plan | Compare → |
| 8 | OpenAI Codex OpenAI's coding agent for cloud, desktop, IDE and an open-source terminal CLI, included in ChatGPT plans. | 2 of 3 Code Generation · Debugging | 49 | $8/mo · free plan | Compare → |
| 9 | Devin Autonomous AI software engineer (now including Windsurf) that plans, codes and ships in the cloud. | 2 of 3 Code Generation · Debugging | 48 | $20/mo · free plan | Compare → |
| 10 | Factory Droids Agent-native development platform whose 'Droids' run coding tasks locally or in the cloud. | 2 of 3 Code Generation · Debugging | 44 | $20/mo | Compare → |
| 11 | Kiro AWS's spec-driven agentic IDE and CLI that turns prompts into specs, code and tests. | 2 of 3 Code Generation · Debugging | 44 | $20/mo · free plan | Compare → |
| 12 | Replit Agent Cloud IDE agent that builds, deploys and hosts full apps from natural-language prompts. | 2 of 3 Code Generation · Debugging | 44 | $20/mo | Compare → |
| 13 | Lovable AI app builder that generates and deploys full-stack web apps from chat prompts. | 2 of 3 Code Generation · Debugging | 41 | $25/mo · free plan | Compare → |
| 14 | v0 Vercel's AI agent that generates, iterates on and deploys web apps and UIs. | 2 of 3 Code Generation · Debugging | 41 | $30/mo · free plan | Compare → |
| 15 | Jules Google's asynchronous coding agent that works on GitHub repos in a cloud VM and opens pull requests. | 2 of 3 Code Generation · Debugging | 39 | Free plan | Compare → |
FAQ
What are the best alternatives to Cline?
The closest are Cursor, Bolt and Claude Code: they share the most documented capabilities with Cline. Across all 15 alternatives, the highest Agent Score is Claude Code (77/100).
Is there a free alternative to Cline?
Cursor, Bolt and OpenHands have a free plan or free tier, according to their pricing pages.
How alternatives are chosen: agents that document the most capabilities in common with Cline come first, then agents in the same theme, then by Agent Score. Capabilities and prices come from vendor websites, with sources and dates on each agent's page. No vendor pays to appear here, and affiliate links never change this order.