# Auggie CLI vs Cline (slim)

> Cline scores 60.4 (C) to Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Cline scores 60.4 (C) on agent readiness against Auggie CLI's 50.8 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do agent harnesses.

- Auggie CLI: D 50.8, rank #872 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/auggie.min.md
- Cline: C 60.4, rank #568 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.min.md
- Auggie CLI, good for Teams already paying for Augment who want its Context Engine in a terminal, in CI or through ACP and MCP, with permission rules a security team can delegate to a webhook. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.0 out of 5; 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 43; Schema & documentation, 77 against 67; Security & auth, 57 against 47; Payments & pricing, 50 against 20; Maintenance & community, 85 against 58. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Auggie CLI | Cline |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 43 | 80 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 67 | 77 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 65 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 50 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 58 | 85 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 57 | 61 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Auggie CLI | Cline |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Harness (formerly Augment Code) | Cline Bot Inc. |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary. The licence from Augment Computing, Inc. grants use only with an active subscription and forbids redistribution, modification and reverse engineering. The GitHub repository holds the README, changelog, examples and issue tracker, not the source | Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-08-21 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated |  | 2025-09-25 |
| Privacy policy last updated |  | 2025-09-24 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 16k npm/wk | 68k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2/5 (2) |