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Cline vs Ollama

For Run a coding model locally or cheaply.

Ollama scored 81/100 and Cline scored 39/100. The gap is 42 points on the rubric. Nothing else is inferred.

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Cline

39 / 100

Rank 5 on this job · tested 16 Oct 2026

Ollama

81 / 100

Rank 1 on this job · tested 15 Oct 2026

Rubric breakdown

  • Job result (40)4 Cline32 Ollama
  • Speed and effort (15)3 Cline12 Ollama
  • Price and free tier (15)15 Cline15 Ollama
  • Ease of start (10)6 Cline6 Ollama
  • Reliability and trust (10)4 Cline8 Ollama
  • Community signal (10)7 Cline8 Ollama

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 · Ollama

Ollama 0.40.4, qwen2.5-coder:3b, 15Gi CPU, no GPU. Two prompts, 65.6s then 44.2s. Final files passed tsc and the debounce/REST checks. Evidence: evidence/2026-10-16/ca6/ollama/.

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