Cline Alternatives

Safer and better-maintained options, ranked by Nerq Trust Score. Updated 2026-09-12.

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	hyunjun6928-netizen/salmalm	63	C	27	Higher trust (63 vs 48); Much larger community
2	deepseek-r1-distill-llama	63	C	76	Higher trust (63 vs 48); Much larger community
3	InternVL3-1B-hf	62	C	10	Higher trust (62 vs 48); Much larger community
4	Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-6bit	62	C	5	Higher trust (62 vs 48); Much larger community
5	Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct-MLX-5bit	62	C	5	Higher trust (62 vs 48); Much larger community
6	janku-v5-nsfw-trained-noobai-rou-wei-illustrious-xl-v50-sdxl	62	C	4	Higher trust (62 vs 48); Much larger community
7	ats-god-optimizer	61	C	-	Higher trust (61 vs 48)
8	granite-embedding-107m-multilingual	60	C	46	Higher trust (60 vs 48); Much larger community
9	Qwen2.5-Coder-1.5B-Instruct-GGUF	60	C	38	Higher trust (60 vs 48); Much larger community
10	granite-3.1-3b-a800m-instruct	60	C	28	Higher trust (60 vs 48); Much larger community
11	granite-4.0-350m-base	60	C	25	Higher trust (60 vs 48); Much larger community
12	Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct	60	C	25	Higher trust (60 vs 48); Much larger community
13	mage-ai	60	C	6	Higher trust (60 vs 48); Much larger community
14	mistral-nemo	60	C	5	Higher trust (60 vs 48); Much larger community
15	k0ntext	60	C	-	Higher trust (60 vs 48)

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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.