{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "cline", "name": "Cline", "vendor": "Cline Bot Inc.", "vendorUrl": "https://cline.bot", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Open-source coding agent that runs as a VS Code extension, a JetBrains plugin, a CLI and a desktop app, all on one TypeScript SDK since extension 4.0.0 (26 June 2026).", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cline.json", "repo": "https://github.com/cline/cline", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "cline" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Your own provider keys (kept in ~/.cline/data/settings/providers.json for the CLI), a local model, or a Cline account (Google, GitHub or email sign-in) for the Cline provider and ClinePass. The CLI's default provider is Cline's own, so it needs `-P` and a key, or `cline auth`, to use anything else.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "The extension, CLI and SDK are free and Apache-2.0. You pay your model provider, or buy Cline credits for pay-as-you-go access to 100+ models through the Cline provider, or ClinePass at $9.99 a month for higher limits on selected open models. Free models rotate for signed-in users. Enterprise (SSO, role-based access, audit logs, SLA) is priced by sales. We found no public per-token price list for Cline credits.", "priceSummary": "$9.99 / mo", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the pricing page or the source (checked 2026-10-01).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 67600, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-01" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.cline.bot", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.cline.bot/llms.txt", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "open-source", "local", "freemium", "typescript", "llms-txt", "telemetry-default-on", "enterprise", "no-card" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-01", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 60.4, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 568, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1146, "categoryRank": 15, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 50, "reliability": 80, "schema": 77, "security": 57, "transparency": 61 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -8, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-02-17. GHSA-9ppg-jx86-fqw7. An attacker used a compromised npm publish token to release cline@2.3.0 with a postinstall script that ran `npm install -g openclaw@latest`. It was live for about eight hours before 2.4.0 and a deprecation, the token was revoked and publishing moved to OIDC. A supply-chain incident that reached users, fixed and documented and seven months old, -4. https://github.com/cline/cline/security/advisories/GHSA-9ppg-jx86-fqw7", "2026-05-08. GHSA-5c57-rqjx-35g2 (CVE-2026-44211, 9.6). The kanban server the CLI uses accepted WebSocket connections on 127.0.0.1:3484 without checking Origin, so any website could read workspace data and inject commands. Affects kanban before 2.13.0. Inside six months, -2. https://github.com/cline/cline/security/advisories/GHSA-5c57-rqjx-35g2", "2026-06-23. GHSA-3cj3-hqcr-g934 (CVE-2026-59723, 8.8). The Cline Hub dashboard's `/browser` WebSocket accepted cross-origin connections when ROOM_SECRET was unset, the local default, letting a website add MCP servers to the settings file and run commands. NVD lists versions before 3.0.30 as affected. Inside six months, -2. https://github.com/cline/cline/security/advisories/GHSA-3cj3-hqcr-g934" ], "verdict": "Approval before edits and commands in the IDE, with command auto-approval off by default since 4.0.0. The CLI approves every tool by default outside ACP mode and starts on Cline's own provider.", "bestFor": "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.", "strengths": [ "Approval before edits and commands in the IDE, with command auto-approval off by default since 4.0.0", "Checkpoints that restore files and task state, and sessions that resume by ID", "`CLINE_COMMAND_PERMISSIONS` allow and deny globs for shell commands, with deny taking precedence and redirects blocked", "Your own key for about 200 providers, or a local model, with no Cline account", "29 extension and 34 CLI releases since 3 July 2026, with tests passing on main" ], "weaknesses": [ "The CLI approves every tool by default outside ACP mode and starts on Cline's own provider", "Extension telemetry on by default, and the CLI's telemetry undocumented", "A compromised npm token shipped cline@2.3.0 with an unwanted global install in February 2026", "Two cross-origin WebSocket flaws in its local servers in May and June 2026", "About 700 open issues and 525 open pull requests" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `CLINE_COMMAND_PERMISSIONS` with allow and deny globs before a headless run. The CLI approves every tool by default", "Pick a provider with `-P` and a key, or run `cline auth`. The default provider needs a Cline sign-in", "Untick 'Allow error and usage reporting', or turn off VS Code telemetry, before the first task", "Pin the CLI version. 2.3.0 was a malicious publish", "Keep the hub on 127.0.0.1 or set ROOM_SECRET, and run 3.0.30 or later" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 60.4 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 67, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 50, "reliability": 80, "schema": 77, "security": 57, "transparency": 60 }, "provenanceScore": 61 }, "connect": { "install": "npm i -g cline # Node 22+; or the VS Code extension saoudrizwan.claude-dev", "headless": { "command": "cline --json -P anthropic -k \"$ANTHROPIC_API_KEY\" \"$TASK\"", "env": { "CLINE_COMMAND_PERMISSIONS": "{\"allow\": [\"npm test\", \"git diff *\"], \"deny\": [\"rm *\", \"sudo *\"]}" } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/cline" }, "area": "frameworks", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "ClinePass", "unit": "month", "usd": 9.99, "note": "higher limits on selected open coding models" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Cline Bot Inc.", "domain": "cline.bot", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://cline.bot/tos", "privacy": "https://cline.bot/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://github.com/cline/cline/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-01", "notes": [ "The pricing page and the CLI's package.json name Cline Bot Inc.", "cline.bot/.well-known/security.txt lists security@cline.bot and the Bugcrowd programme, and expires on 2027-12-31.", "The privacy and terms pages render only with JavaScript, so we couldn't read them." ], "score": 61 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.json", "live": { "slug": "cline", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "cline/cline", "version": "desktop-v0.0.48", "released": "2026-10-17", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:41:06.213803909Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "cline", "version": "3.0.73", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:41:05.529440949Z" } ], "githubStars": 70526, "npmWeekly": 44260, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://cline.bot/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "valid", "expires": "2027-12-31T23:59:00z", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T15:53:56.902134193Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.cline.bot/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T14:24:30.799204139Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "cline.bot", "registered": "2024-09-30", "source": "https://rdap.nominet.uk/bot/domain/cline.bot", "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T13:28:20.817596002Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cline/cline/main/CHANGELOG.md", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:37:19.693803621Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-16T22:30:37.717253978Z", "fingerprint": "5e5d7447c5e8" }, { "url": "https://cline.bot/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:24:56.791377991Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-18T23:24:56.791377991Z", "fingerprint": "829127d0d63f" }, { "url": "https://cline.bot/tos", "kind": "terms", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:24:59.063586709Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-18T23:24:59.063586709Z", "fingerprint": "9c6ddec53cb5" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T03:41:06.213803909Z" } }, "answer": "Cline scores 60.4 (C) on agent readiness against Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "b": { "slug": "jules", "name": "Jules", "vendor": "Google LLC", "vendorUrl": "https://jules.google", "kind": "harness", "category": "agent-harnesses", "summary": "Jules is Google's asynchronous coding agent, which clones a GitHub repository into a cloud virtual machine, plans, edits and opens pull requests. Outside agents drive it through an alpha REST API, a TypeScript SDK, an MCP package and a CLI.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jules.json", "repo": "https://github.com/google-labs-code/jules-sdk", "license": "Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed", "transports": [ "http", "stdio" ], "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google/jules" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google/jules-sdk" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google/jules-mcp" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "The REST API takes an API key in the `X-Goog-Api-Key` header. Keys are created by a person in Settings in the Jules web app, at most three at a time, shown once and revocable there, and publicly exposed keys are disabled automatically. Keys carry no scopes. The discovery document also lists Google OAuth with the broad cloud-platform scope. The Jules Tools CLI signs in with a Google account in the browser (`jules login`). Repository sources need the Jules GitHub app installed through the web app.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with 15 tasks a day and 3 concurrent tasks. Jules in Pro (100 a day, 15 concurrent) and Jules in Ultra (300 a day, 60 concurrent) come with the Google AI Pro and Ultra plans, and the Google AI plans page lists AI Plus with expanded Jules limits (jules.google/docs/usage-limits and one.google.com/about/google-ai-plans, checked 2026-10-18). Paid plans are for personal @gmail.com accounts, with an interest form for business users. The plan prices render per locale and weren't read. No per-task or per-call price.", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the Jules docs, the API reference, the discovery document or the plans pages (checked 2026-10-18).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 8, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 1269, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-18" }, "docsUrl": "https://jules.google/docs/", "llmsTxt": "https://jules.google/docs/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://jules.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1alpha", "capabilities": [ "agent.harness", "agent.mcp-client", "agent.multi-agent" ], "tags": [ "official", "hosted", "cloud-agent", "closed-source", "api-key", "alpha", "llms-txt", "mcp", "no-status-page", "stale-release", "freemium" ], "lastRelease": "2026-03-09", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 44.5, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1000, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1146, "categoryRank": 35, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 18, "payments": 30, "reliability": 13, "schema": 76, "security": 57, "transparency": 44 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-18" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "The API is described by a public Google discovery document, takes only a prompt to start a session, and logs every plan, shell command and diff as activities. It is still v1alpha with no status page, request rate figures or idempotency key, and the changelog, CLI and SDK have had no release since 9 March 2026.", "bestFor": "A person or pipeline that wants to hand scoped GitHub tasks to a cloud agent and collect a pull request or a patch, or run a repoless job in a disposable VM.", "strengths": [ "Public discovery document for jules.googleapis.com v1alpha with 13 methods, typed schemas, enums and required fields, revision 20261015", "Only `prompt` is required to create a session. A session without `sourceContext` runs repoless in a fresh cloud VM", "Activities record plans, messages, bash commands with exit codes and git patches, and can be filtered by `create_time` to fetch only new events", "Four ways in for an outside agent, the REST API, the Apache-2.0 TypeScript SDK, an 8-tool stdio MCP server and the Jules Tools CLI", "Free plan of 15 tasks a day and 3 concurrent tasks with a Google account, and docs served as Markdown with an llms.txt index" ], "weaknesses": [ "The REST API has been v1alpha since 3 October 2025 and the docs say specifications and API keys may change", "Newest changelog entry is 9 March 2026, the CLI's last npm release 0.1.42 was on 16 December 2025, and the SDK and MCP packages last published 0.2.0 on 9 March 2026", "No status page, no request rate figures, no Retry-After guidance and no idempotency key on session creation were found", "API sessions auto-approve their plans unless `requirePlanApproval` is true, and the MCP server defaults to an automated run that opens a pull request", "A person must sign in with Google, install the Jules GitHub app and create the key in the web app. Keys carry no scopes" ], "agentNotes": [ "Set `requirePlanApproval: true` on sessions that touch shared branches, then call `:approvePlan` yourself. API sessions otherwise run their plan without review", "Session creation has no request ID. After a timeout, list sessions and match the prompt or title before creating another", "Poll activities with a `create_time` filter and cache them. Activities never change once written", "Read the request fields from the discovery document at https://jules.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1alpha. The field tables on jules.google render empty", "Budget against the daily task quota of 15, 100 or 300 by plan. New sessions are refused until the rolling 24 hours reset" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 44.5 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 64, "maintenance": 18, "payments": 30, "reliability": 13, "schema": 76, "security": 57, "transparency": 25 }, "provenanceScore": 62 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install -g @google/jules # Jules Tools CLI, then: jules login", "http": "curl 'https://jules.googleapis.com/v1alpha/sessions' -X POST -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -H \"x-goog-api-key: $JULES_API_KEY\" -d '{\"prompt\": \"Add a test for parseQueryString in utils.js\", \"sourceContext\": {\"source\": \"sources/github/OWNER/REPO\", \"githubRepoContext\": {\"startingBranch\": \"main\"}}, \"requirePlanApproval\": true}'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "jules": { "args": [ "@google/jules-mcp" ], "command": "npx", "env": { "JULES_API_KEY": "\u003capi-key\u003e" } } } }, "headless": { "run": "jules remote new --repo . --session \"write unit tests\"" } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/agent.harness", "tool": "https://letme.dev/jules" }, "area": "frameworks", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Google LLC", "domain": "jules.google", "domainRegistered": "2025-01-16", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://policies.google.com/terms", "privacy": "https://policies.google.com/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://jules.google/docs/changelog/", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-18", "notes": [ "The jules.google footer links the Google Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The Jules privacy notice at jules.google.com/legal answered 'Jules is not yet available in your region' to our request and wasn't read.", "jules.google returns 404 for /.well-known/security.txt. www.google.com has a valid security.txt (expires 2030-04-01) pointing to g.co/vulnz and the Google VRP.", "The API answers at jules.googleapis.com, Google's API domain. RDAP for jules.google gives a registration date of 2025-01-16.", "No status page for Jules was found." ], "score": 62 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.json", "live": { "slug": "jules", "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "google-labs-code/jules-sdk", "version": "0.0.4", "released": "2026-02-03", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:57:10.887630529Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google/jules", "version": "0.1.42", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:57:06.676637995Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google/jules-mcp", "version": "0.2.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:57:08.879284383Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@google/jules-sdk", "version": "0.2.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-19T03:57:07.451466348Z" } ], "githubStars": 138, "npmWeekly": 1269, "pages": [ { "url": "https://jules.google/docs/changelog/", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-18T23:32:10.654949702Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6add211f604a" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-19T03:57:10.887630529Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "Agent harness", "b": "Agent harness", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Cline Bot Inc.", "b": "Google LLC", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "no (local only)", "b": "no (local only)", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "", "b": "HTTP, stdio", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "Apache-2.0", "b": "Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "none", "b": "8", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2026-10-01", "b": "2026-03-09", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2025-09-25", "b": "2026-07-30", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2025-09-24", "b": "2026-10-01", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "68k stars", "b": "1.3k npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "2/5 (2)", "b": "2.8/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Cline scores 60.4 (C) on agent readiness against Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Cline or Jules?" }, { "answer": "Cline is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Jules.", "question": "Are Cline and Jules open source?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 80 against 13", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 30", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 18", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 61 against 44" ], "also": [ "Free to start without a card", "Open source" ], "goodFor": "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.", "slug": "cline", "watchFor": "The CLI approves every tool by default outside ACP mode and starts on Cline's own provider" }, { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "Runs on your own machine", "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.0 out of 5", "No incidents deducted, where Cline loses 8 points for them" ], "goodFor": "A person or pipeline that wants to hand scoped GitHub tasks to a cloud agent and collect a pull request or a patch, or run a repoless job in a disposable VM.", "slug": "jules", "watchFor": "The REST API has been v1alpha since 3 October 2025 and the docs say specifications and API keys may change" } ], "job": { "capability": "agent.harness", "name": "Agent harnesses" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-cline.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs Cline", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-cline" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-jules.json", "title": "Agent Zero vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-cline.json", "title": "Aider vs Cline", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-cline" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-jules.json", "title": "Aider vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-cline.json", "title": "Amp vs Cline", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-cline" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-jules.json", "title": "Amp vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-cline.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs Cline", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-cline" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-jules.json", "title": "Antigravity CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-cline.json", "title": "Auggie CLI vs Cline", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-cline" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-jules.json", "title": "Auggie CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-cline.json", "title": "Claude Code vs Cline", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-cline" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-jules.json", "title": "Claude Code vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/claude-code-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-crush.json", "title": "Cline vs Crush", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-crush" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-cursor-cli.json", "title": "Cline vs Cursor CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-cursor-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-deepseek-harness.json", "title": "Cline vs DeepSeek Harness (dsh)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-deepseek-harness" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-devin.json", "title": "Cline vs Devin", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-devin" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-droid-cli.json", "title": "Cline vs Droid CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-droid-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-earendil-pi.json", "title": "Cline vs Pi", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-earendil-pi" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-gemini-cli.json", "title": "Cline vs Gemini CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-gemini-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-github-copilot-cli.json", "title": "Cline vs GitHub Copilot CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-github-copilot-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-goose.json", "title": "Cline vs goose", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-goose" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harness2.json", "title": "Cline vs Harness²", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harness2" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harnessrouter.json", "title": "Cline vs HarnessRouter", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harnessrouter" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-junie.json", "title": "Cline vs Junie CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-junie" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-kilo-code-cli.json", "title": "Cline vs Kilo Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-kilo-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-kimi-code-cli.json", "title": "Cline vs Kimi Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-kimi-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-kiro-cli.json", "title": "Cline vs Kiro CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-kiro-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Cline vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-mistral-vibe-cli.json", "title": "Cline vs Mistral Vibe CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-mistral-vibe-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-muse-code.json", "title": "Cline vs Muse Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-muse-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-openai-codex.json", "title": "Cline vs OpenAI Codex", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-openai-codex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-opencode.json", "title": "Cline vs OpenCode", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-opencode" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-openhands.json", "title": "Cline vs OpenHands", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-openhands" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Cline vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-qoder-cli.json", "title": "Cline vs Qoder CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-qoder-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "Cline vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "Cline vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json", "title": "Cline vs Rovo Dev CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-warp.json", "title": "Cline vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-jules.json", "title": "Crush vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/crush-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-jules.json", "title": "Cursor CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cursor-cli-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-jules.json", "title": "DeepSeek Harness (dsh) vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepseek-harness-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-jules.json", "title": "Devin vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/devin-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-jules.json", "title": "Droid CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/droid-cli-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-jules.json", "title": "Pi vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/earendil-pi-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-jules.json", "title": "Gemini CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/gemini-cli-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-jules.json", "title": "GitHub Copilot CLI vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/github-copilot-cli-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-jules.json", "title": "goose vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/goose-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-jules.json", "title": "Harness² vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness2-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-jules.json", "title": "HarnessRouter vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harnessrouter-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-junie.json", "title": "Jules vs Junie CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-junie" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kilo-code-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Kilo Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kilo-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kimi-code-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Kimi Code CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kimi-code-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kiro-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Kiro CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-kiro-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-mini-swe-agent.json", "title": "Jules vs mini-swe-agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-mini-swe-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-mistral-vibe-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Mistral Vibe CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-mistral-vibe-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-muse-code.json", "title": "Jules vs Muse Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-muse-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-openai-codex.json", "title": "Jules vs OpenAI Codex", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-openai-codex" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-opencode.json", "title": "Jules vs OpenCode", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-opencode" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-openhands.json", "title": "Jules vs OpenHands", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-openhands" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-prime-agent.json", "title": "Jules vs Prime Agent", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-prime-agent" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-qoder-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Qoder CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-qoder-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-qwen-code.json", "title": "Jules vs Qwen Code", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-qwen-code" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-reflection-mirror.json", "title": "Jules vs Mirror CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-reflection-mirror" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-rovo-dev-cli.json", "title": "Jules vs Rovo Dev CLI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-rovo-dev-cli" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-warp.json", "title": "Jules vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-warp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-cline.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs Cline", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-cline" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-jules.json", "title": "CLI Manager vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cli-manager-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harness-autonomous.json", "title": "Cline vs Harness", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-harness-autonomous" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Cline vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Cline vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-parallax-agents" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-jules.json", "title": "Harness vs Jules", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/harness-autonomous-vs-jules" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-paperclip.json", "title": "Jules vs Paperclip", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-paperclip" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-parallax-agents.json", "title": "Jules vs Parallax", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jules-vs-parallax-agents" } ], "scores": [ { "by": 67, "cline": 80, "edge": "cline", "jules": 13, "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 1, "cline": 77, "edge": "cline", "jules": 76, "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 3, "cline": 67, "edge": "cline", "jules": 64, "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "by": 0, "cline": 57, "edge": "", "jules": 57, "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "by": 20, "cline": 50, "edge": "cline", "jules": 30, "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 67, "cline": 85, "edge": "cline", "jules": 18, "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "by": 17, "cline": 61, "edge": "cline", "jules": 44, "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Cline scores 60.4 (C) on agent readiness against Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do agent harnesses.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "cline": "Approval before edits and commands in the IDE, with command auto-approval off by default since 4.0.0. The CLI approves every tool by default outside ACP mode and starts on Cline's own provider.", "jules": "The API is described by a public Google discovery document, takes only a prompt to start a session, and logs every plan, shell command and diff as activities. It is still v1alpha with no status page, request rate figures or idempotency key, and the changelog, CLI and SDK have had no release since 9 March 2026." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-jules", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-jules.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-jules.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-jules.min.md" }, "markdown": "Cline scores 60.4 (C) on agent readiness against Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do agent harnesses.\n\n- Cline: grade C, 60.4/100, rank #568 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cline.json\n- Jules: grade E, 44.5/100, rank #1000 of 1146. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jules.json\n- Best agent harnesses and coding agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-harnesses/index.md\n- All 713 harnesses comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-harnesses/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Cline (C)\n\nGood 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.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 80 against 13\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 50 against 30\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 85 against 18\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 61 against 44\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Free to start without a card\n- Open source\n\nWatch for: The CLI approves every tool by default outside ACP mode and starts on Cline's own provider\n\n### Jules (E)\n\nGood for: A person or pipeline that wants to hand scoped GitHub tasks to a cloud agent and collect a pull request or a patch, or run a repoless job in a disposable VM.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Runs on your own machine\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.0 out of 5\n- No incidents deducted, where Cline loses 8 points for them\n\nWatch for: The REST API has been v1alpha since 3 October 2025 and the docs say specifications and API keys may change\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Cline | Jules | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 80 | 13 | Cline +67 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 77 | 76 | Cline +1 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 67 | 64 | Cline +3 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 57 | 57 | even |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 50 | 30 | Cline +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 85 | 18 | Cline +67 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 61 | 44 | Cline +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -8 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.4 · C** | **44.5 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Cline | Jules |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Agent harness | Agent harness |\n| Vendor | Cline Bot Inc. | Google LLC |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed |\n| Tools exposed | none | 8 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-03-09 |\n| Terms last updated | 2025-09-25 | 2026-07-30 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-24 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | yes | yes |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 68k stars | 1.3k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 2.8/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Cline.** Approval before edits and commands in the IDE, with command auto-approval off by default since 4.0.0. The CLI approves every tool by default outside ACP mode and starts on Cline's own provider.\n\n**Jules.** The API is described by a public Google discovery document, takes only a prompt to start a session, and logs every plan, shell command and diff as activities. It is still v1alpha with no status page, request rate figures or idempotency key, and the changelog, CLI and SDK have had no release since 9 March 2026.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Cline\n\n1. Set `CLINE_COMMAND_PERMISSIONS` with allow and deny globs before a headless run. The CLI approves every tool by default\n2. Pick a provider with `-P` and a key, or run `cline auth`. The default provider needs a Cline sign-in\n3. Untick 'Allow error and usage reporting', or turn off VS Code telemetry, before the first task\n4. Pin the CLI version. 2.3.0 was a malicious publish\n5. Keep the hub on 127.0.0.1 or set ROOM_SECRET, and run 3.0.30 or later\n\n### Jules\n\n1. Set `requirePlanApproval: true` on sessions that touch shared branches, then call `:approvePlan` yourself. API sessions otherwise run their plan without review\n2. Session creation has no request ID. After a timeout, list sessions and match the prompt or title before creating another\n3. Poll activities with a `create_time` filter and cache them. Activities never change once written\n4. Read the request fields from the discovery document at https://jules.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1alpha. The field tables on jules.google render empty\n5. Budget against the daily task quota of 15, 100 or 300 by plan. New sessions are refused until the rolling 24 hours reset\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Cline or Jules?\n\nCline scores 60.4 (C) on agent readiness against Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories.\n\n### Are Cline and Jules open source?\n\nCline is open source (Apache-2.0). No open-source release is listed for Jules.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-jules.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/cline-vs-jules.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"cline\", \"b\": \"jules\"}`. From a terminal: `anchor compare cline jules`\n- Each listing in full: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/cline.json and https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/jules.json\n\n## Other comparisons with Cline or Jules\n\n- [Agent Zero vs Cline](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-cline.md)\n- [Agent Zero vs Jules](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-zero-vs-jules.md)\n- [Aider vs Cline](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-cline.md)\n- [Aider vs Jules](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/aider-vs-jules.md)\n- [Amp vs Cline](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-cline.md)\n- [Amp vs Jules](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/amp-vs-jules.md)\n- [Antigravity CLI vs Cline](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-cline.md)\n- [Antigravity CLI vs Jules](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/antigravity-cli-vs-jules.md)\n- [Auggie CLI vs Cline](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/auggie-vs-cline.md)\n- 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