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Cline

AI Market Atlas · by Pro Pluribus

Open source

Up and coming Coding agents and AI IDEsupdated 22 Sep 2026

Open-source VS Code and CLI agent with separate plan and act modes.

What it offers

Main offerings

Cline: Bring-your-own-model coding agent.

Recent news

6 Oct 2026Cline reports 20x token growth in four monthsGrowth is driven by open-weight models; Cline also open-sourced its evaluations for open-weight agents.SiliconANGLE ↗
Apr 2026Creator campaign drives 4M+ reach for Cline (Nov 2025 to Apr 2026)Cline is pushing hard on distribution as rivals consolidateDevTools Academy ↗
29 Jan 2026Reports of an OpenAI acqui-hire denied; Cline says it remains independentThe rumor rattled users, and Kilo courted Cline contributors in responseKilo blog ↗

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