Cline

Cline (formerly Claude Dev) is an open-source autonomous coding agent. The Cline VS Code extension has 5M+ installs; JetBrains is in early access; the Cline CLI is also available. Edits files, runs commands, uses the browser, and federates to multiple LLM providers. An MCP Marketplace extends Cline with custom tools. There is also a hosted/managed offering (Cline.bot) with free and paid tiers plus enterprise sales.

Cline is listed with 5 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, Developer Tools, Agents, VS Code, and JetBrains.

Cline’s developer surface includes engineering blog, GitHub presence, documentation, and 8 more developer resources.

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15.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 13/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 94/100 alive open core · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessEnterprise

5 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Artificial Intelligence Developer Tools Agents VS Code JetBrains CLI MCP Open Source

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 15.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 3.1 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 13/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 18.4 — up to +16.3 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
IDE Extension Marketplaces (JetBrains, VS Code, Open VSX, Docker Verified Publishers, PyPI orgs)	builds-on	34.5 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Cline VS Code Extension

Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code. Reads/writes files, runs commands, browses the web, calls MCP tools, and connects to LLM providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, O...

Cline JetBrains Plugin

Early-access JetBrains plugin offering the same agent surfaces.

Cline CLI

Headless terminal version of the Cline agent.

Cline MCP Marketplace

Marketplace for MCP servers/tools that extend the Cline agent.

Cline Hosted (Cline.bot)

Hosted/managed Cline product with free and paid tiers plus enterprise sales.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Cline MCP Server

Remote MCP server at docs.cline.bot over HTTP; 3 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Cline API pricing

Not yet checked against Cline's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-08 from cline.bot/; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
To Be Reconciled enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Default: see provider documentation varies

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Cline's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cline Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cline Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Cline Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cline Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Cline Vulnerability Disclosure

Bugcrowd · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cline
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cline/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Cline
kind: company
description: Cline (formerly Claude Dev) is an open-source autonomous coding agent. The Cline VS Code extension has 5M+ installs;
  JetBrains is in early access; the Cline CLI is also available. Edits files, runs commands, uses the browser, and federates
  to multiple LLM providers. An MCP Marketplace extends Cline with custom tools. There is also a hosted/managed offering (Cline.bot)
  with free and paid tiers plus enterprise sales.
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: Apache-2.0
  license_evidence:
    repo: cline/cline
    spdx: Apache-2.0
    stars: 69281
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  - repository-license
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cline.png
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-24
x-docs-hosting: vercel
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Developer Tools
- Agents
- VS Code
- JetBrains
- CLI
- MCP
- Open Source
tags_raw:
- AI
- Developer Tools
- Agent
- VS Code
- JetBrains
- CLI
- MCP
- Open Source
- Open-Source
created: '2026-05-08'
modified: '2026-10-06'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: cline:vscode
  name: Cline VS Code Extension
  description: Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code. Reads/writes files, runs commands, browses the web, calls
    MCP tools, and connects to LLM providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, OpenRouter, Ollama, etc.).
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://cline.bot/
  tags:
  - VS Code
  - Agents
  - Open Source
  - MCP
  tags_raw:
  - VS Code
  - Agent
  - Open Source
  - MCP
  - Open-Source
  properties:
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/cline/cline
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.cline.bot/
- aid: cline:jetbrains
  name: Cline JetBrains Plugin
  description: Early-access JetBrains plugin offering the same agent surfaces.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://cline.bot/
  tags:
  - JetBrains
  - Agents
  - Beta
  tags_raw:
  - JetBrains
  - Agent
  - Beta
  properties:
  - type: ProductPage
    url: https://cline.bot/
- aid: cline:cli
  name: Cline CLI
  description: Headless terminal version of the Cline agent.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://cline.bot/
  tags:
  - CLI
  - Agents
  tags_raw:
  - CLI
  - Agent
  properties:
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/cline/cline
- aid: cline:mcp-marketplace
  name: Cline MCP Marketplace
  description: Marketplace for MCP servers/tools that extend the Cline agent.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://cline.bot/
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Marketplace
  - Tools
  properties:
  - type: ProductPage
    url: https://cline.bot/
- aid: cline:hosted
  name: Cline Hosted (Cline.bot)
  description: Hosted/managed Cline product with free and paid tiers plus enterprise sales.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://cline.bot/
  tags:
  - Hosted
  - Software-as-a-Service
  tags_raw:
  - Hosted
  - SaaS
  properties:
  - type: Signup
    url: https://cline.bot/
  - type: Sales
    url: https://cline.bot/
common:
- url: https://cline.bot/blog
  type: Blog
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/cline-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cline-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/clinebot
- type: Website
  url: https://cline.bot/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/cline/cline
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.cline.bot/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cline-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cline-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/cline-finops.yml
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.cline.bot/llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Cline API — frequently asked questions

Does Cline have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Cline, including Cline VS Code Extension, Cline JetBrains Plugin and Cline CLI, and 2 more.

How much does the Cline API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Cline, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Cline have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Cline: Remote MCP server at docs.cline.bot over HTTP; 3 tools listed.

Is the Cline API ready for AI agents?

Cline has a Kin Score of 15.3 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 13.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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