Alternatives to Cline

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Claude Code

Anthropic's agentic coding tool for terminal, IDE, desktop, and browser. Reads the repo, edits files, runs commands, and connects MCP, skills, and hooks.

#Claude

15900000DR: 95AS: 94

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Open-source coding agent for VS Code and JetBrains. Apache-2.0, local models, CLI, and MCP. Acquired by Cursor; the repo stays public.

#Open Source

500000DR: 70AS: 68

Goose

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Local Apache-2.0 agent from Block / AAIF. Rechecked: 52,895 GitHub stars. Software $0; you pay the LLM. Not a 35k-star / 1,700-MCP census.

#Open Source

200000DR: 65AS: 60