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Supermaven vs Cline

Compare features, pricing, pros & cons, and user ratings to decide which AI tool is best for your needs.

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Pricing
FreemiumSupermaven operated a Freemium model during its active life (Feb 2024 – Nov 2025). The Free tier provided fast inline code completions with a 300,000-token context window, compatible with VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, and Neovim — with no trial expiry. Pro was priced at $10/month (or $99/year), unlocking the 1 million token context window, access to Supermaven's largest Babble model, coding style adaptation, and $5/month in Supermaven Chat credits with a 30-day free trial. Team plans were also $10/user/month and added centralized billing and user management for companies. Supermaven was acquired by Cursor in November 2024. All paying subscribers were fully refunded in November 2025 when the standalone product was sunset. Free autocomplete inference was extended for existing Neovim and JetBrains users as a courtesy. The product is no longer available for new signups — Cursor is the recommended migration path.
FreeCline itself is free and open source — there are no seat fees or subscriptions for the core agent. You pay AI inference costs directly to your chosen LLM provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, etc.) with a full per-request cost breakdown shown in the UI. Cline shows every token used and every dollar spent transparently. ClinePass ($9.99/month) is an optional managed billing subscription that provides 2–5x more usage on popular open coding models compared to standard API rates, with one-click sign-in and no need to manage API keys yourself. It is not required — BYOK (bring your own key) is always available at zero markup. Enterprise pricing is custom and adds JetBrains extension, SSO/OIDC/SCIM, SLA, centralized billing, RBAC, team management dashboard, authentication logs, limit inference providers, dedicated support, VPC deployments, OpenTelemetry, and advanced config management. Contact sales at cline.bot/contact-sales.
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Summary
The fastest AI copilot with a 1 million token context window
Open-source AI coding agent — any model, your keys, full control
Supermaven

Supermaven Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Fastest inline code completions of any tool at launch — sub-250ms latency beats Copilot by 3x
  • 1 million token context window gives it codebase-wide awareness without slow retrieval
  • Generous always-free tier with no expiry for solo developers
  • Founded by Tabnine creator — deep domain expertise in efficient code completion models
  • Lightweight extension model — no new IDE required, works inside existing editors
  • Coding style learning personalizes suggestions over time

Cons

  • Product sunset in November 2025 after Cursor acquisition — no longer available for new signups
  • No agentic or multi-file editing capabilities (completions and chat only)
  • Chat credits limited on Pro tier ($5/month) with overage charges
  • Extension API limitations in VS Code/JetBrains constrained more advanced features
  • 7-day code data retention limit on free tier raised some privacy concerns for teams
Cline

Cline Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Completely free and open source (Apache 2.0) — no seat fees, no subscriptions, no proprietary lock-in ever
  • 67K+ GitHub stars and 8M+ developers — largest open-source coding agent community by any measure
  • Full cost transparency at zero markup — the only major coding agent that shows exactly what you pay per request with no hidden pricing
  • Model-agnostic with 12+ provider integrations — switch any time without changing workflow or losing your setup
  • Plan/Act mode gives full human-in-the-loop control — approve every action or flip to autopilot when confidence is high
  • Trusted by engineers at Salesforce, Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft, eBay, Visa, IBM, and LG

Cons

  • BYOK means you manage your own LLM API keys and billing — can be confusing for non-technical users used to flat subscriptions
  • No built-in inline autocomplete (Tab completions) — Cline is an agent, not a code-completion tool like Copilot or Tabnine
  • JetBrains support is still Early Access — not as polished as the VS Code extension
  • Some engineers joining OpenAI's Codex team in January 2026 raised community concerns about long-term momentum (Cline confirmed no acquisition and remains independent)
  • Enterprise features (SSO, RBAC, JetBrains, SLA) require a custom sales contract — no self-serve team plan available