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Cline vs Qwen Code

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Qwen Code scored 40/100 and Cline scored 39/100. The gap is 1 points on the rubric. Nothing else is inferred.

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Cline

39 / 100

Rank 5 on this job · tested 16 Oct 2026

Qwen Code

40 / 100

Rank 4 on this job · tested 16 Oct 2026

Rubric breakdown

  • Job result (40)4 Cline4 Qwen Code
  • Speed and effort (15)3 Cline3 Qwen Code
  • Price and free tier (15)15 Cline15 Qwen Code
  • Ease of start (10)6 Cline6 Qwen Code
  • Reliability and trust (10)4 Cline5 Qwen Code
  • Community signal (10)7 Cline7 Qwen Code

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 · Qwen Code

Qwen Code 0.25.2 with --auth-type openai and Ollama's /v1 endpoint. A 60s ping returned tool-call text. A 20s task returned grep_search JSON and did not write the files. A 120s run with --max-tool-calls 0 was cancelled with an empty stdout. Evidence: evidence/2026-10-16/batch3/qwen-code/.

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