Amp vs. Cline CLI

Feature	Amp	Cline CLI

Tagline	The frontier coding agent	Autonomous coding agent right in your terminal
Website	https://ampcode.com	https://cline.bot
Language	typescript	typescript
Release Date	April 14, 2025	October 2, 2025
Last Updated	May 7, 2026	April 28, 2026
Provider Type	AI Lab	Independent
MCP Support	Yes	Yes
Multi-Agent Support	Yes	Yes
Git Integration	deep	basic
Multi-File Editing	Yes	Yes
Auto Test Running	Yes	Yes
Sandbox / Permissions	Yes	Yes
Image / Multimodal Input	Yes	Yes
Voice Mode	No	Yes
IDE Integration	VS Code	VS Code, JetBrains, Zed, Neovim, Emacs
Hooks / Extensions	Yes	Yes
Web Search	Yes	Yes
Local Model Support	No	Yes
Context Window	Model-dependent	Model-dependent (up to 1M)
Supported Models	Claude Opus 4.7/4.5, Sonnet, GPT-5.5, GPT-5.3-Codex, Gemini 3.1 Pro / Flash	AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, DeepSeek, Meta, Azure, Cerebras, 30+ providers
Pricing Model	Usage Based	Freemium
Free Tier	Yes	Yes
Price Range	Free daily grant, then usage-based	Free (BYOK) / $20/mo per user
Source Code Availability	Proprietary Software	Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Source Code		https://github.com/cline/cline
Development State	active	active