Organization
Cline
Developer platform · United States (no headquarters city stated; the USPTO record gives a Wilmington, Delaware owner address, and the careers page lists on-site roles in San Francisco, California)
Cline Bot Inc. develops Cline, an open-source AI coding agent offered as a VS Code extension, a command-line tool, an SDK, and a desktop app, with a separate JetBrains plugin. It also runs the Cline Provider, a hosted service that gives signed-in users credit-based access to models from other providers.4810
Using this organization’s offerings
Intended users
Developers who use a coding agent in an editor, terminal, or desktop app, and developers building their own agents on the Cline SDK.84
Hosted and self-hosted access
The agent software is open source. Model access is separate: through the Cline Provider's pay-as-you-go credits, a ClinePass subscription, or the user's own provider credentials and local runtimes.710
Key facts
- Ownership (separate from openness)
- Privately held
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
- Legal form
- Corporation organized in Delaware, per the USPTO registration record for the CLINE trademark.5
- Headquarters
- United States (no headquarters city stated; the USPTO record gives a Wilmington, Delaware owner address, and the careers page lists on-site roles in San Francisco, California)56
- Other documented locations
- San Francisco, California6
- Founded
- Unknown
- Sectors
- Agents
What is and isn’t public
Cline's agent code (VS Code extension, CLI, SDK, and desktop app) is published under Apache 2.0; the JetBrains plugin is not open source. This catalog has no record of Cline releasing model weights: the agent works with models that users reach through third-party providers, local runtimes, or the hosted Cline Provider. See the Cline agent record.437
Products
No hosted model products are recorded for this organization.
Other products
| Product | Kind | Documented delivery and access | Reviewed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cline for VS Code and JetBrains (external site: docs.cline.bot) | Developer tool | Coding-agent extension installed from the VS Code Marketplace (also usable in Cursor, Windsurf, VSCodium, and Antigravity) or from the JetBrains Marketplace. The VS Code extension is open source under Apache 2.0; the README says the JetBrains plugin is not being open-sourced.84 | Oct 1, 2026 |
| Cline CLI (external site: docs.cline.bot) | Developer tool | Open-source command-line agent installed with npm (package "cline", Node.js 20 or newer) for interactive terminal sessions and headless automation.98 | Oct 1, 2026 |
| Cline Provider (external site: docs.cline.bot) | Inference service | Hosted access to third-party models through a Cline account (sign-in with Google, GitHub, or email), paid with pay-as-you-go Cline credits; some models are marked free. Users can instead use their own provider credentials or local runtimes.107 | Oct 1, 2026 |
Cataloged artifacts
Runtimes
- Cline (open-source coding agent)SoftwareAvailability: Public
Notable documented facts
- The Cline repository holds the SDK, CLI, VS Code extension, and desktop app code; its README states that the JetBrains plugin is not being open-sourced.4
Open positions
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What this catalog does not know
- Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.
- Headquarters state: the documented headquarters does not name a state.
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U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters
Cline's terms of service (last modified September 25, 2025) name Cline Bot Inc. as the provider of the service, deem the service based solely in Delaware, and apply Delaware law; the privacy notice names Cline Bot Inc. as the operator, and the Apache 2.0 LICENSE assigns copyright to Cline Bot Inc. The USPTO registration record for the CLINE trademark lists Cline Bot Inc. as a Delaware corporation with an owner address in Wilmington, Delaware. Cline's careers page lists on-site roles in San Francisco, California. No official page reviewed names a headquarters city, so only the country is recorded; no non-U.S. office or parent entity was found.12356
Sources
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