Alternatives to Cline

Claude Code is Anthropic's agentic coding assistant that plans, edits, and runs commands across your repo from the terminal, IDE, or browser.

MIT-licensed terminal coding agent that reads files, edits code, and runs commands with the model you choose.

Kilo is an open-source AI coding agent with 500+ models across VS Code, JetBrains, CLI, cloud, and Slack — at exact provider rates.

Open-source terminal coding agent that runs against any model you point it at — OpenAI, Gemini, Codex, Grok, Ollama, LM Studio and 200+ more.

Open-source desktop workspace that runs Claude Code, Codex, OpenClaw, and other CLI coding agents side by side with per-task model routing.

Open-source AI coding agent that runs in your terminal, IDE, or desktop app and connects to 75+ LLM providers.

Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains, acquired by Cursor in January 2026 and now an unmaintained codebase you fork, not subscribe to.

Open Interpreter is an open-source terminal agent that turns plain-English requests into real file edits and shell commands on your machine.

Open-source autonomous AI coding agent that plans, executes, and deploys tasks inside VS Code and JetBrains IDEs.

Open-source agentic coding assistant that runs inside your terminal and wires any LLM into your CLI workflow.

Godcoder is a local-first, open-source AI coding agent desktop app that writes its own harness and keeps your code on your machine.

Sourcegraph Cody is an AI coding assistant that grounds chat, completions, and agent workflows in your entire multi-repo codebase.

Open platform for running fleets of cloud coding agents across your SDLC, with an agentic terminal and a CLI agent that works anywhere

OpenAI's cloud coding agent that runs many software engineering tasks in parallel, each in an isolated sandbox preloaded with your repo.

Open-source AI agent for desktop, CLI, and API — automate code, research, and writing with your own LLM keys or subscriptions

Open-source agent skills that turn text or image prompts into CAD models, G-code, and robot files.

Open-source AI + no-code platform where coding agents and AI employees build and run business systems on production-proven infrastructure.

Free, open-source AI code assistant plugin for JetBrains IDEs with spec-driven development and agent mode

Paseo is a self-hosted control plane that runs Claude Code, Codex, Copilot and 30+ other coding agents from your phone, desktop, browser or CLI.

Xiaomi's free, open-source terminal AI coding agent with unlimited context and the 309B-parameter open-weight MiMo-V2-Flash model.

Open-source, self-hosted AI coding assistant with code completion, answer engine, inline chat, and the Pochi autonomous agent.

Herm is an open-source coding agent that runs every session inside its own container, with a single Go binary and your choice of model provider.

Free, MIT-licensed desktop coding agent that runs on your machine and works with any LLM, from Codex-based cloud models to local Qwen3.

Open-source MCP skill that adds 25 unified AI coding commands and a persistent memory layer to the agents you already run

Open-weight agentic coding models — Laguna XS 2.1 (33B) and Laguna S 2.1 (118B) — built for code that cannot leave your security boundary.

Open-source platform for autonomous coding agents that fix bugs, review PRs, and automate engineering workflows.

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding agent that completes code, reviews pull requests, and runs Copilot, Claude, and Codex agents inside GitHub

Imbue is an open AI lab publishing modular, open-source coding-agent tools you run and inspect yourself.

Junie is JetBrains' AI coding agent — terminal, IDE, GitHub, or GitLab — running on any model you bring, with zero-markup BYOK and a local Mac build.

Open-source AI pair programming in your terminal, with Git-native commits and whole-codebase awareness.