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cline alternatives: 12 Claude Code plugins like cline/cline

cline has 70,848 stars, gained 309 in 7 days and was last pushed Oct 26, 2026; the top pick, opentabs, has 995 stars and gained 13 in 7 days.

Published · Updated · By Flowy

How they compare

Flowy lists 1,115 other Development plugins like cline, ranked by shared technologies, then GitHub stars; nothing in this list is paid.

cline and its 12 closest alternatives
PluginStars7 daysUpdatedLicenseContains
clineThis page70,848+309Oct 26, 2026Apache-2.02 commands
1opentabs995+13Oct 24, 2026MIT3 skills
2bgauryy-octocode956+4Oct 21, 2026MIT13 skills
3ruvnet-claude-flow79,721+1,747Oct 27, 2026MIT200 skills, 169 agents, 196 commands, 3 MCP servers
4cc-haha15,196+113Oct 27, 2026not available3 skills
5trellis15,032+50Sep 29, 2026AGPL-3.018 skills, 5 agents, 6 commands
6socraticode3,358+7Oct 23, 2026AGPL-3.02 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook, 1 MCP server
7cocoindex-code2,954+18Oct 22, 2026Apache-2.01 skill, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server
8emulate1,954+31Oct 25, 2026Apache-2.015 skills
9claude-video-vision1,431+35Oct 14, 2026MIT1 skill, 1 agent, 2 commands, 1 MCP server
10project-starter1,4210Oct 6, 2026MIT14 skills, 7 agents, 26 commands, 6 hooks
11mcpc1,072+11Oct 21, 2026Apache-2.02 skills
12open-claudecode974+3Oct 26, 2026not available15 skills, 14 agents, 14 commands, 1 MCP server

The 12 closest alternatives

3. ruvnet-claude-flow

79,721 stars+1,747 this week

📖 RuFlo Explained — Build an AI Team That Plans, Remembers, Tests, and Improves A 14-chapter guide: from the basic idea to a first useful…

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4. cc-haha

15,196 stars+113 this week

cc-haha 是一个桌面端 Claude Code 工作台:多会话与全局搜索、分支 / Worktree 启动、Diff 审阅、内置浏览器预览、图形化权限审批、模型自选(Claude / ChatGPT / Grok / 预设 / 本地端点)、图片生成、MCP 与…

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7. cocoindex-code

2,954 stars+18 this week

A super light-weight embedded code search engine CLI (AST based) that just works - improves speed and efficiency for coding agent 🌟 Star…

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11. mcpc

1,072 stars+11 this week

mcpc is a command-line client for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that maps every MCP operation to an intuitive shell command.

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12. open-claudecode

974 stars+3 this week

完整开源的 Claude Code 项目 - 基于 Anthropic 官方源码重建 🌐 Languages: 中文 | English

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Questions about cline alternatives

What is the best alternative to cline?

opentabs is the first of 12 alternatives to cline by shared technologies: it has 995 stars (behind cline), gained 13 stars this week and ships 3 skills, which cline does not.

Which cline alternative has the most skills?

ruvnet-claude-flow has the most, with 200 skills of the 12 alternatives listed.

Is cline free?

Yes. cline is published under the Apache-2.0 license, so it is free to use.