# Amp vs Cline (slim)

> Cline scores 60.4 (C) on agent readiness against Amp's 57.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Amp leads on transparency & trust. Both do agent harness. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Cline scores 60.4 (C) on agent readiness against Amp's 57.1 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Amp leads on transparency & trust. Both do agent harness.

- Amp: C 57.1, rank #482 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amp.min.md
- Cline: C 60.4, rank #400 of 722 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.min.md
- Amp, good for Teams that want a hosted, multi-model coding agent with shared threads and cloud machines, driven from scripts through execute mode or the SDKs. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 77 against 61. Also No incidents deducted, where Cline loses 8 points for them.
- Cline, good for Developers who want an agent inside VS Code or JetBrains that asks before acting and can roll back, with the same engine in a CLI. Ahead on Reliability, 80 against 31; Schema & documentation, 77 against 72; Payments & pricing, 50 against 35; Maintenance & community, 85 against 79. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Amp | Cline |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 31 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 77 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 35 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 77 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amp | Cline |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amp Frontier Corporation | Cline Bot Inc. |
| Licence | Proprietary, under the Amp licence terms (Amp Frontier Corporation). The npm packages are marked Amp Commercial License and the source repository is private | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2025-09-25 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-10 | 2025-09-24 |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Popularity | 41k npm/wk | 68k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (2) |