coding-agent / rank 15 of 41 / cycle 04
Cline benchmark
An open source agent inside your editor that asks permission before each step, which is slower to drive and much easier to trust. It matched the commercial agents on the correctness prompts and lost time to the approval loop rather than to the model. Cost per full run was among the lowest we recorded because nothing is spent on a platform licence.
Composite index
71.51
of 100 | ▲ 1 versus cycle 03
At a glance
Composite index
71.51
rank 15 of 41
Rank
#15
of 41 measured builders
Median speed
95.1 s
p10 47.4 s, p90 201.7 s
Reliability
80.0%
strict pass rate
SEO score
57.0
0 to 100, SEO and GEO axis
Three strongest axes
- Code ownership99.0
- Value88.0
- Agent performance82.0
Three weakest axes
- Speed33.0
- SEO and GEO57.0
- Design output63.0
Median per prompt
95.1 s
p10 47.4 s, p90 201.7 s
Strict pass rate
80.0%
36 pass, 8 partial, 1 fail
Executions recorded
45
5 runs of 9 prompts
Entry price
EUR 0.00
Cheapest plan that can finish the specification
Per axis subscores
Composite recomputed from these ten rows: 71.51. That is the arithmetic behind the index, and you can repeat it by hand.
| Axis | Subscore 0 to 100, tick is the roster median | Score | Median | Weight % | Contribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent performance | 82.0 | 75.0 | 18 | 14.76 | |
| Reliability | 80.0 | 71.1 | 18 | 14.40 | |
| Scalability | 72.0 | 70.0 | 13 | 9.36 | |
| SEO and GEO | 57.0 | 58.0 | 12 | 6.84 | |
| API and MCP | 70.0 | 62.0 | 9 | 6.30 | |
| Integrations | 72.0 | 66.0 | 8 | 5.76 | |
| Design output | 63.0 | 71.0 | 7 | 4.41 | |
| Speed | 33.0 | 33.0 | 7 | 2.31 | |
| Value | 88.0 | 76.0 | 5 | 4.40 | |
| Code ownership | 99.0 | 90.0 | 3 | 2.97 |
Speed distribution
Every recorded prompt duration for Cline, in seconds. The cyan tick on the whisker is the median.
Spread against the cohort
p10 47.4 s / median 95.1 s / p90 201.7 s
Scale is shared with every product in the cohort, so the bars are directly comparable between pages. Ratio of p90 to median is 2.12x.
Outcome split
36 pass / 8 partial / 1 fail
SEO and GEO measurements
Taken from the public marketing page this product generated in prompt 8, fetched with JavaScript disabled.
HTML bytes, no JS
21.0 KB
21,504 bytes of real text content with scripts blocked
LCP
1,860 ms
Throttled connection, cold cache
CLS
0.040
Cumulative layout shift on load
SEO and GEO subscore
57.0
0 to 100, worth 12 index points
Raw run data: 45 executions
One row per prompt execution. Nothing is aggregated away, nothing is hidden, including the failures.
| Run | Prompt | Prompt target | Started | Duration (s) | Outcome | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R01 | P01 | Tenant and user model | 11 Aug 2026 08:00 UTC | 86.8 | pass | |
| R01 | P02 | Authentication and session | 11 Aug 2026 08:03 UTC | 56.8 | pass | |
| R01 | P03 | Projects CRUD with tenancy | 11 Aug 2026 08:06 UTC | 128.8 | pass | |
| R01 | P04 | Public REST API with keys | 11 Aug 2026 08:10 UTC | 30.7 | pass | |
| R01 | P05 | Outbound webhooks with signatures | 11 Aug 2026 08:13 UTC | 88.9 | pass | |
| R01 | P06 | Background jobs | 11 Aug 2026 08:16 UTC | 153.2 | partial | Pagination off by one at the final page boundary. |
| R01 | P07 | Admin panel | 11 Aug 2026 08:21 UTC | 73.4 | pass | |
| R01 | P08 | Public marketing surface | 11 Aug 2026 08:24 UTC | 56.1 | pass | |
| R01 | P09 | Hardening pass | 11 Aug 2026 08:27 UTC | 186.0 | pass | |
| R02 | P01 | Tenant and user model | 12 Aug 2026 08:00 UTC | 44.1 | partial | Validation added on the write path only. Read path left unguarded. |
| R02 | P02 | Authentication and session | 12 Aug 2026 08:02 UTC | 66.7 | pass | |
| R02 | P03 | Projects CRUD with tenancy | 12 Aug 2026 08:05 UTC | 136.5 | pass | |
| R02 | P04 | Public REST API with keys | 12 Aug 2026 08:10 UTC | 73.8 | pass | |
| R02 | P05 | Outbound webhooks with signatures | 12 Aug 2026 08:13 UTC | 139.9 | pass | |
| R02 | P06 | Background jobs | 12 Aug 2026 08:17 UTC | 208.8 | pass | |
| R02 | P07 | Admin panel | 12 Aug 2026 08:23 UTC | 165.1 | pass | |
| R02 | P08 | Public marketing surface | 12 Aug 2026 08:27 UTC | 175.9 | pass | |
| R02 | P09 | Hardening pass | 12 Aug 2026 08:32 UTC | 126.7 | pass | |
| R03 | P01 | Tenant and user model | 13 Aug 2026 08:00 UTC | 49.1 | partial | Pagination off by one at the final page boundary. |
| R03 | P02 | Authentication and session | 13 Aug 2026 08:02 UTC | 120.1 | pass | |
| R03 | P03 | Projects CRUD with tenancy | 13 Aug 2026 08:06 UTC | 156.4 | pass | |
| R03 | P04 | Public REST API with keys | 13 Aug 2026 08:11 UTC | 100.5 | pass | |
| R03 | P05 | Outbound webhooks with signatures | 13 Aug 2026 08:15 UTC | 82.5 | pass | |
| R03 | P06 | Background jobs | 13 Aug 2026 08:18 UTC | 477.0 | pass | |
| R03 | P07 | Admin panel | 13 Aug 2026 08:28 UTC | 264.5 | pass | |
| R03 | P08 | Public marketing surface | 13 Aug 2026 08:34 UTC | 71.6 | partial | Pagination off by one at the final page boundary. |
| R03 | P09 | Hardening pass | 13 Aug 2026 08:38 UTC | 64.3 | pass | |
| R04 | P01 | Tenant and user model | 14 Aug 2026 08:00 UTC | 27.8 | partial | Delivered the main path, missed the boundary case named in the pass criteria. |
| R04 | P02 | Authentication and session | 14 Aug 2026 08:02 UTC | 30.8 | pass | |
| R04 | P03 | Projects CRUD with tenancy | 14 Aug 2026 08:04 UTC | 70.7 | partial | Required one clarifying instruction before the criterion was met. |
| R04 | P04 | Public REST API with keys | 14 Aug 2026 08:08 UTC | 73.0 | pass | |
| R04 | P05 | Outbound webhooks with signatures | 14 Aug 2026 08:11 UTC | 152.8 | pass | |
| R04 | P06 | Background jobs | 14 Aug 2026 08:15 UTC | 206.8 | pass | |
| R04 | P07 | Admin panel | 14 Aug 2026 08:21 UTC | 106.9 | pass | |
| R04 | P08 | Public marketing surface | 14 Aug 2026 08:25 UTC | 152.2 | pass | |
| R04 | P09 | Hardening pass | 14 Aug 2026 08:29 UTC | 95.1 | pass | |
| R05 | P01 | Tenant and user model | 15 Aug 2026 08:00 UTC | 46.3 | partial | Error envelope inconsistent between two of the endpoints. |
| R05 | P02 | Authentication and session | 15 Aug 2026 08:02 UTC | 57.6 | pass | |
| R05 | P03 | Projects CRUD with tenancy | 15 Aug 2026 08:05 UTC | 194.1 | partial | Delivered the main path, missed the boundary case named in the pass criteria. |
| R05 | P04 | Public REST API with keys | 15 Aug 2026 08:10 UTC | 154.3 | pass | |
| R05 | P05 | Outbound webhooks with signatures | 15 Aug 2026 08:15 UTC | 247.5 | pass | |
| R05 | P06 | Background jobs | 15 Aug 2026 08:21 UTC | 86.4 | pass | |
| R05 | P07 | Admin panel | 15 Aug 2026 08:25 UTC | 175.4 | pass | |
| R05 | P08 | Public marketing surface | 15 Aug 2026 08:30 UTC | 61.2 | fail | Build did not start after deploy. Recorded as a fail with the log preserved. |
| R05 | P09 | Hardening pass | 15 Aug 2026 08:33 UTC | 74.0 | pass |
Pricing
Free and open source extension. You pay only for the model tokens you use.
- Entry price
- EUR 0.00
- Value subscore
- 88.0
- Index points per euro
- 71.51
Capabilities as measured
- stack
- Your repository, any framework
- deploy
- Not included
- database
- Whatever you already run
- auth
- It wires the library you choose
- background jobs
- Implemented in your stack
- webhooks
- Signed when the criterion names it
- rest api
- Written to your conventions
- mcp server
- Yes
- export code
- Fully open source
- custom domain
- Your hosting decides
- ssr
- Your framework decides
Screenshot
Cline landing page, captured by the lab on 14 Aug 2026 at 1440 by 900. Stored locally, never hotlinked.
Cline, captured 14 Aug 2026.
Sources and fetch dates
Every claim on this page traces to one of these.
| Source | URL | Fetched |
|---|---|---|
| Cline pricing page | https://cline.bot/pricing | 14 Aug 2026 |
| Cline product site | https://cline.bot | 14 Aug 2026 |
| LLM Tier run harness output | https://www.llm-tier.com/api/runs.json | 14 Aug 2026 |
Rich results carry this composite as 3.6 on a 0 to 5 scale because that is the only scale the format accepts. The number on this page, 0 to 100, is the real one.
Cline head to head
Reader index
Voted by readers with an account, one score per person per axis. Published beside the lab index, never inside it.
Reader index
77.04
Lab index
71.51
3 readers, 28 axis scores, last change 12 Aug 2026. Readers rate Cline 5.5 points above the measurement.
| Axis | Weight | Lab | Readers | Votes | Reader mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent performance | 18% | 82.0 | 85.3 | 3 | |
| Reliability | 18% | 80.0 | 87.7 | 3 | |
| Scalability | 13% | 72.0 | 73.0 | 2 | |
| SEO and GEO | 12% | 57.0 | 61.0 | 2 | |
| API and MCP | 9% | 70.0 | 78.3 | 3 | |
| Integrations | 8% | 72.0 | 77.3 | 3 | |
| Design output | 7% | 63.0 | 70.3 | 3 | |
| Speed | 7% | 33.0 | 44.0 | 3 | |
| Value | 5% | 88.0 | 97.0 | 3 | |
| Code ownership | 3% | 99.0 | 100.0 | 3 |
The reader index is a weighted mean of reader submitted axis scores using the published index weights, renormalised over the axes readers have scored. It is never blended into the lab index. How this works.
Open rating mean
n/a
0 published open ratings, submitted without an account
Lab index
71.51
Measured, not voted
Gap to the measurement
n/a
Positive means open raters put it above the measurement
What agent performance looked like in practice
An open source agent inside your editor that asks permission before each step, which is slower to drive and much easier to trust. It matched the commercial agents on the correctness prompts and lost time to the approval loop rather than to the model. Cost per full run was among the lowest we recorded because nothing is spent on a platform licence.
Across 45 recorded executions this product met the published pass criterion cleanly 36 times, partially 8 times and failed 1 times. The rows above carry the reviewer note for every non clean outcome, which is the only way to tell a product that fails loudly from one that fails quietly.