Cline

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Open source yes BYOK yes Sub-agents yes MCP client

Headless ? Cap strictness 5h + weekly rolling ~$20 plan cap_risk high

Plans and limits

Plan	Price /mo	Limits	Source
Free (BYOK)	$0	Extension/CLI free; BYOK or pay-as-you-go Cline credits	source 2026-10-20
ClinePass	$9.99	Curated open-weight models; rolling 5-hour, weekly and monthly caps	source 2026-10-20

Any provider; ClinePass: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3, Kimi K3, Muse Spark 1.3, others

2026-10-16 [model]

Cline extension 4.1.25: with no model chosen, the Cline provider uses Gemini 4 Argon instead of Claude Sonnet 5.5; OpenRouter stays on Sonnet 5.5. source
2026-10-13 [model]

With no model chosen, Cline and OpenRouter providers default to Claude Sonnet 5.5. source
2026-09-24 [model]

ClinePass drops GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code and DeepSeek V4 Flash; adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Muse Spark 1.3. Price unchanged. source (via tracker)
2026-09-18 [price]

Cline ends the $4.99 ClinePass first-month offer. source (via tracker)