AI & Agents
Cline
Last updated 2026-06-08 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible
Cline is an open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, terminal, and SDK use.
Is Cline production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Cline 78 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Cline (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 51/100
- Accessibility — 96/100
- Security — 80/100
- Privacy — 45/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 76/100
- Discoverability — 100/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- No Content-Security-Policy.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 190 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- Has a reachable privacy policy.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who built it
product account @cline
Who it's for
Developers · DevOps engineers · Teams automating workflows · CI/CD pipelines · Software architects
Pricing
Free for individual developers; Enterprise plan available with custom pricing (SSO, SLA, dedicated support, team features).
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