Cline vs Continue.dev vs OpenCode
Three agents you run on your own API keys. None charges a seat fee, so the cost is whatever inference you use, and the choice is really about where you want the agent to live.
These tools sit in different categories in our directory, which reflects where each is strongest rather than a filing error.
 ClineAI Agents |  Continue.devCode Generation |  OpenCodeAI Agents | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tagline | Open source autonomous coding agent for VS Code | Open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs (powerful Cursor/Copilot alternative) | Open source AI coding agent for the terminal, IDE or desktop |
| What it does | An Apache-2.0 coding agent for VS Code that runs on your own API keys, so there is no subscription and no seat fee, just the inference you actually use. | Open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains. Use Claude, GPT-4, or local LLMs for in-editor autocomplete, refactoring, code explanation. | An open source coding agent that runs in your terminal, editor or as a desktop app, and works with 75+ model providers instead of locking you to a single one. |
| Pricing | Open source | Open source | Open source |
| Pricing details | Free under Apache-2.0 with no subscription or seat fee; you pay only for model inference, either bring your own key or buy credits. Enterprise is contact-only. | Open-source, optional paid features | Free and MIT licensed. Optional Zen credits buy access to models OpenCode has benchmarked for coding. Enterprise is per-seat and contact-only. |
| Price range | Usage based, no flat monthly planChecked 2026-08-28 | No pricing page foundChecked 2026-08-28 | No pricing page foundChecked 2026-08-28 |
| Free option | Free tier | No free option | No free option |
| GitHub stars | 66,747stars | 35,541stars | 204,043stars |
| Language | TypeScript | TypeScript | TypeScript |
| License | Apache License 2.0 | Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
| Last commit | 23 Aug 2026 | 19 Aug 2026 | 4 Sept 2026 |
| Category | AI Agents | Code Generation | AI Agents |
| Tags | code-generationsoftware-engineeringopen-sourcedebugging | coding-assistantide-extensioncode-completionopen-sourceai-coding | code-generationsoftware-engineeringopen-sourcedebugging |
| Website | Visit Cline | Visit Continue.dev | Visit OpenCode |
- Tagline
- Open source autonomous coding agent for VS Code
- What it does
- An Apache-2.0 coding agent for VS Code that runs on your own API keys, so there is no subscription and no seat fee, just the inference you actually use.
- Pricing
- Open source
- Pricing details
- Free under Apache-2.0 with no subscription or seat fee; you pay only for model inference, either bring your own key or buy credits. Enterprise is contact-only.
- Price range
- Usage based, no flat monthly planChecked 2026-08-28
- Free option
- Free tier
- GitHub stars
- 66,747stars
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- Apache License 2.0
- Last commit
- 23 Aug 2026
- Category
- AI Agents
- Tags
- code-generationsoftware-engineeringopen-sourcedebugging
- Website
- Visit Cline
- Tagline
- Open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains IDEs (powerful Cursor/Copilot alternative)
- What it does
- Open-source AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains. Use Claude, GPT-4, or local LLMs for in-editor autocomplete, refactoring, code explanation.
- Pricing
- Open source
- Pricing details
- Open-source, optional paid features
- Price range
- No pricing page foundChecked 2026-08-28
- Free option
- No free option
- GitHub stars
- 35,541stars
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- Apache License 2.0
- Last commit
- 19 Aug 2026
- Category
- Code Generation
- Tags
- coding-assistantide-extensioncode-completionopen-sourceai-coding
- Website
- Visit Continue.dev
- Tagline
- Open source AI coding agent for the terminal, IDE or desktop
- What it does
- An open source coding agent that runs in your terminal, editor or as a desktop app, and works with 75+ model providers instead of locking you to a single one.
- Pricing
- Open source
- Pricing details
- Free and MIT licensed. Optional Zen credits buy access to models OpenCode has benchmarked for coding. Enterprise is per-seat and contact-only.
- Price range
- No pricing page foundChecked 2026-08-28
- Free option
- No free option
- GitHub stars
- 204,043stars
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT License
- Last commit
- 4 Sept 2026
- Category
- AI Agents
- Tags
- code-generationsoftware-engineeringopen-sourcedebugging
- Website
- Visit OpenCode
Which should you pick?
Continue is the only one of the three with JetBrains support and inline autocomplete, so it is the pick if you are not in VS Code or you want completion rather than an agent. Cline is VS Code and agentic: it plans, edits across files and asks before acting, under Apache-2.0 with about 67k stars. OpenCode is terminal-first and works with 75+ model providers, which makes it the most portable of the three and the easiest to drop into an existing shell workflow. One caution on OpenCode: the project moved, and the old opencode-ai repository is archived at 13.7k stars while the live one carries over 200k, so check the current repository before judging it by star count. All three avoid subscriptions entirely, which means the real cost comparison is your model bill, not theirs.