Cline vs CodeGPT vs Refact.ai vs Tabby
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Cline
Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code
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CodeGPT
Bring-your-own-key AI coding assistant for VS Code and JetBrains
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Refact.ai
Open-source AI coding agent
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Tabby
Open-source self-hosted GitHub Copilot alternative
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 6.6 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 | 7.1 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | — | — | — | — |
| Paid from | — | — | — | — |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | — | 2022 | 2023 |
| Maker | — | — | — | — |
| Verdict | Cline is an open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code that plans, edits files, runs terminal commands and uses MCP tools, with bring-your-own-key support across Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter and local models. For d... |
The whole pitch is control. Bring your own API keys, point the extension at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama or a local model, and your code never lands on CodeGPT's servers. That BYOK stance is the real reason to pick... |
Refact.ai is an AI coding assistant and agent offering autocomplete, chat, and increasingly autonomous task execution across popular IDEs, with a notable open-source core and self-hosting option that appeals to teams wan... |
Tabby is an open-source, self-hostable AI coding assistant that gives teams Copilot-style completion and chat without sending code to a third-party cloud. The self-hosting story is its core appeal: full control over mode... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.