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Cline vs Continue

For Run a coding model locally or cheaply.

Continue scored 52/100 and Cline scored 39/100. The gap is 13 points on the rubric. Nothing else is inferred.

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Cline

39 / 100

Rank 5 on this job · tested 16 Oct 2026

Continue

52 / 100

Rank 3 on this job · tested 16 Oct 2026

Rubric breakdown

  • Job result (40)4 Cline12 Continue
  • Speed and effort (15)3 Cline6 Continue
  • Price and free tier (15)15 Cline15 Continue
  • Ease of start (10)6 Cline6 Continue
  • Reliability and trust (10)4 Cline6 Continue
  • Community signal (10)7 Cline7 Continue

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/.

Evidence · Continue

Continue CLI 1.5.47 with a local Ollama config. Ping returned pong. The task reply in 86s included a trailing debounce and a handler whose import is an unterminated string. tsc reported TS1002. The repair reply was tool-call JSON and did not change the file. Evidence: evidence/2026-10-16/batch3/continue/.

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