# Cline vs Junie CLI (slim)

> Cline scores 60.4 (C) to Junie CLI's 53.2 (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 Junie CLI's 53.2 (D), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Junie CLI leads on transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- Cline: C 60.4, rank #568 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.min.md
- Junie CLI: D 53.2, rank #804 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/junie.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 45; Schema & documentation, 77 against 62; Agent ergonomics, 67 against 55; Payments & pricing, 50 against 42; Maintenance & community, 85 against 72. Also Open source.
- Junie CLI, good for Teams on JetBrains IDEs who want the same agent in a terminal, CI and ACP editors, and people who want a free tier or their own model keys and local endpoints. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 78 against 61. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.0 out of 5.

| Category | Cline | Junie CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 62 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 55 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 56 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 42 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 72 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 78 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cline | Junie CLI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cline Bot Inc. | JetBrains |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary, JetBrains s.r.o., all rights reserved, under the JetBrains AI Terms of Service. The GitHub repository holds the README, release binaries and the issue tracker, not source |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-16 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-25 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-24 | 2026-06-12 |
| 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 | 68k stars | 487 stars, 3.2k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 2.8/5 (4) |