# Cline vs Jules (slim)

> Cline scores 60.4 (C) to Jules's 44.5 (E) 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 Jules's 44.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do agent harnesses.

- Cline: C 60.4, rank #568 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.min.md
- Jules: E 44.5, rank #1000 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jules.min.md
- 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 13; Payments & pricing, 50 against 30; Maintenance & community, 85 against 18; Transparency & trust, 61 against 44. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.
- Jules, good 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. 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.

| Category | Cline | Jules |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 13 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 76 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 57 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 18 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 44 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cline | Jules |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cline Bot Inc. | Google LLC |
| Transports |  | HTTP, stdio |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary service under the Google Terms of Service. The TypeScript SDK is Apache-2.0; the CLI binary is closed |
| Tools exposed | none | 8 |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-03-09 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-25 | 2026-07-30 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-24 | 2026-10-01 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 68k stars | 1.3k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 2.8/5 (4) |