Cline Alternatives

Safer and better-maintained options, ranked by Nerq Trust Score. Updated 2026-06-15.

Cline has a Nerq Trust Score of 48 (D). Open-source autonomous AI coding agent for VS Code. Can edit files, run commands, and browse.

#	Name	Trust	Grade	Stars	Key Difference
1	ats-god-optimizer	73	B	-	Higher trust (73 vs 48)
2	Radiator-Routes	69	C	-	Higher trust (69 vs 48)
3	Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct	69	B-	1.5k	Higher trust (69 vs 48); Much larger community
4	haotian-liu/LLaVA	68	B-	24.5k	Higher trust (68 vs 48); Much larger community
5	bracket-league-2026	64	C	7	Higher trust (64 vs 48); Much larger community
6	Qwen3-4B	63	C	556	Higher trust (63 vs 48); Much larger community
7	deepseek-r1-distill-llama	63	C	76	Higher trust (63 vs 48); Much larger community
8	AgenticScreeningMetricsDemo	62	C	-	Higher trust (62 vs 48)
9	agento	62	C	18	Higher trust (62 vs 48); Much larger community
10	InternVL3-1B-hf	62	C	10	Higher trust (62 vs 48); Much larger community
11	Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-6bit	62	C	5	Higher trust (62 vs 48); Much larger community
12	Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-5bit	62	C	5	Higher trust (62 vs 48); Much larger community
13	janku-v5-nsfw-trained-noobai-rou-wei-illustrious-xl-v50-sdxl	62	C	4	Higher trust (62 vs 48); Much larger community
14	granite-embedding-107m-multilingual	60	C	46	Higher trust (60 vs 48); Much larger community
15	Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct-GGUF	60	C	38	Higher trust (60 vs 48); Much larger community

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What are the best alternatives to Cline?

The top alternatives based on Nerq Trust Score are listed above, all independently evaluated for security and reliability.

Is it safe to switch from Cline?

Check each alternative's safety report by clicking its name. Trust scores above 70 indicate strong reliability.

How does Nerq rank Cline alternatives?

Alternatives are ranked by Trust Score v2, combining security, maintenance, documentation, and community signals.