# Cline vs Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) (slim)

> Cline and Warp score within a point of each other for agent harnesses, 60.4 and 59.8 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Cline and Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.4 (C) and 59.8 (C). Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) leads on schema & documentation and transparency & trust. Both do agent harnesses.

- Cline: C 60.4, rank #568 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/cline.min.md
- Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API): C 59.8, rank #592 of 1146 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/warp.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 52; Security & auth, 57 against 52; Payments & pricing, 50 against 20. Also Free to start without a card.
- Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API), good for Teams that want one agent across an interactive terminal session and API-started cloud runs, including Claude Code and Codex runs on Warp's infrastructure or their own workers. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 89 against 77; Transparency & trust, 72 against 61. Also Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.3 against 2.0 out of 5.

| Category | Cline | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 80 | 52 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 77 | 89 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 67 | 66 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 57 | 52 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 85 | 84 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 61 | 72 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Cline | Warp (Warp Agent CLI and the Oz Agent API) |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Cline Bot Inc. | Warp |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | Mixed. The client, including the `warp` and `oz` binaries, is AGPL-3.0 with the `warpui_core` and `warpui` crates under MIT. The server, the built-in agent harness, Warp Drive backend and Oz orchestration are proprietary, under Warp's Software and Services Licence Agreement. The SDKs are Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-15 |
| 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 | 68k stars | none |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 3.3/5 (4) |