Cline vs Jules

Side-by-side comparison of Cline and Jules: pricing, features, API access, and community ratings.

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	Cline The open-source AI coding agent for your IDE, terminal, and SDK Visit	Jules An Autonomous Coding Agent Visit
Category	Coding & development	Coding & development
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
Starting price
Free tier
Audience	All audiences	All audiences
API available
Open source
Self-hostable
Model provider	Multiple: Anthropic (Claude), OpenAI (GPT), Google (Gemini), Ollama, LM Studio, OpenRouter, AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex, Groq, Cerebras, Vercel AI Gateway, DeepSeek, and any OpenAI-compatible API	Google (Gemini)
Founded	2024
Headquarters
Key strengths	·Open source (Apache 2.0) with 70k+ GitHub stars ·Supports every major AI model provider with no vendor lock-in ·Runs as IDE extension, CLI, desktop app, or embeddable SDK ·MCP marketplace for extending with custom tools and servers	·Autonomous coding agent that handles bug fixing, version bumps, tests, and feature building ·Clones repo to a Cloud VM and develops a structured plan before making changes ·Provides a diff for review before applying changes ·Creates GitHub PRs automatically