Refact.ai vs Tabby vs Cline vs Kilo Code
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Refact.ai
Open-source AI coding agent
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Tabby
Open-source self-hosted GitHub Copilot alternative
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Cline
Open-source autonomous coding agent for VS Code
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.2 / 10 | 7.1 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source | Open Source |
| Free tier | — | — | — | — |
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| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
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| Founded | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | — |
| Maker | — | — | — | — |
| Verdict | 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... |
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... |
Kilo Code's lineage — forked from Roo Code, which forked Cline, in March 2025 — shows in how fast it's matured: Reddit's r/kilocode describes it as "Cursor but open and free," and by mid-2026 it had crossed 3 million dow... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.