Cline

Free allowance: Free for individual developers; bring your own API key or use managed infrastructure
Verdict: self-hosted, last resortverdict qualifies: usable as stated; the read path was probed. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
Cost: not stated
Identity: emailno card, no phone
Binding limit: noneno named constraint binds
Evidence: documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-12-04checked 2026-11-03 (live); stale on 2026-12-04

Free tier	free for individual developers; bring your own API key or use managed infrastructure unit none; metered on none; the product costs nothing; the inference it calls is the bill
Price	none stated
Identity	email a GitHub account for the extension marketplace
Egress	not applicable
Interface	cli a VS Code extension; any OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic-compatible endpoint
Tooling	VS Code extension; accepts an arbitrary base URL and key
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	Its cost is entirely the upstream endpoint.
Evidence note	documented the price model is quoted from the vendor page. Nothing about capacity can be measured here because capacity belongs to the endpoint chosen.

Evidence 4

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	cline.bot/pricing	individual use is free, and the product is described as BYO API key or managed infrastructure, with an Enterprise tier for organisations
2026-10-30	cline.bot/pricing	the product stays free for individual developers; inference is billed on usage or brought as an own key
2026-11-03	cline.bot/pricing	the individual plan is still free; there is no vendor quota
2026-11-03	cline.bot/pricing	the Free card lists model inference at cost or with the user's own key, so the inference is the cost and no vendor quota binds

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