Inline completions, chat and coding agents across the major IDEs
Cline alternatives
3 products our research names as a replacement for Cline in AI Coding Assistants, each with what it does differently — prices, API and status from our own checks rather than from the vendors’ own pages.
Cursor
73Code editor built around coding agents that work in the IDE, the terminal, the cloud and on pull requests
Anthropic's coding agent that reads a repository, edits files and runs commands from the terminal, IDE, desktop app, browser or Slack
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Not named as direct replacements — neighbours from the same part of the catalog: the best-rated first, then a sample of the rest.
OpenAI's coding agent for the terminal, IDE, desktop and cloud sandboxes, included with ChatGPT plans or billed by API tokens.
TalkCody
69Free, open-source coding agent built on Rust and Tauri, with bring-your-own-key access to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or local models.
Verdent
77Coding agent running several tasks in parallel from a Mac app, a VS Code or JetBrains extension, or Slack
TLDR Dev
69JetBrains IDE plugin that explains a selected block of code, a regex, or a SQL query in plain English.
Free browser coding tools - generate, explain, refactor, review, convert, and debug code across many languages.
AI Assistant and the Junie coding agent inside JetBrains IDEs, with a free tier and dollar-denominated credits
Pastes source code and converts it into another programming language, from Python and JavaScript to Java, C++, Go, and Rust.
Enterprise code assistant with on-premises and air-gapped deployment, bought by Tricentis in July 2026
CodeGeeX
82Free coding assistant plugin from Zhipu AI for VS Code and JetBrains, with completion, chat and unit-test generation
Browser coding tools, a multi-model chat and a desktop coding agent that works on local projects, all paid from one credit balance.
Agen
79Cloud coding agents that clone your repos, write the change, fix the failing pipeline and hand back a pull request with a live preview.
Describe an animation in words and get CSS or Tailwind keyframes back, with a live preview
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