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Aider vs Cline

For Run a coding model locally or cheaply.

Aider scored 78/100 and Cline scored 39/100. The gap is 39 points on the rubric. Nothing else is inferred.

Last tested:

Aider

78 / 100

Rank 2 on this job · tested 15 Oct 2026

Cline

39 / 100

Rank 5 on this job · tested 16 Oct 2026

Rubric breakdown

  • Job result (40)32 Aider4 Cline
  • Speed and effort (15)12 Aider3 Cline
  • Price and free tier (15)15 Aider15 Cline
  • Ease of start (10)5 Aider6 Cline
  • Reliability and trust (10)8 Aider4 Cline
  • Community signal (10)6 Aider7 Cline

Evidence · Aider

Aider 0.86.2 with local ollama/qwen2.5-coder:3b. Two prompts, 49s then 82s. Final files passed tsc and the same checks. Evidence: evidence/2026-10-16/ca6/aider/.

Evidence · Cline

Cline CLI 3.0.71 -P ollama -m qwen2.5-coder:3b --yolo. After 150s the process was killed (exit 124). Stdout held editor JSON that imported express. src/debounce.ts and src/handler.ts were still the stubs. Evidence: evidence/2026-10-16/batch3/cline/.

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