# Cline vs Muse Code (slim)

> Muse Code and Cline score within a point of each other for agent harnesses, 61.3 and 60.4 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Muse Code and Cline score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 61.3 (C) and 60.4 (C). Cline leads on reliability, payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do agent harnesses.

- Cline: C 60.4, rank #527 of 993 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.min.md
- Muse Code: C 61.3, rank #487 of 993 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/muse-code.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; Payments & pricing, 50 against 20; Maintenance & community, 85 against 75. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.
- Muse Code, good for Developers who want Meta's Muse models, Muse Wonder Full included, in a terminal or CI agent with the sandbox and approvals on from the first run. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 84 against 77; Agent ergonomics, 79 against 67; Security & auth, 67 against 57. Also No incidents deducted, where Cline loses 8 points for them.

| Category | Cline | Muse Code |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 84 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 57 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cline | Muse Code |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cline Bot Inc. | Meta |
| Pricing | Freemium | Paid |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Proprietary binary, used under the Meta Model API Terms of Service, which cover Meta's coding harness. Subscriptions are also under the Meta Subscription Terms of Service. The TypeScript and Python SDKs in the linked repository are MIT. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-11 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-09-25 |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-09-24 | couldn't be read |
| 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 | 63k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |