Cline vs Continue

Cline reads error output from terminal runs, traces the failure through affected files using its file-read tools, and proposes diffs with full previews before writing anything.

Cline parses a feature description, scaffolds new files, edits existing modules, and runs the dev server to verify the change, all within a single agent session.

Plan mode shows the full list of proposed file changes before execution, letting engineers approve or reject each step rather than accepting a blind rewrite.

Continue routes completions through Ollama or LM Studio, giving teams autocomplete and chat on private codebases without sending any code to a cloud API.

Continue's context provider API indexes internal wikis, runbooks, or proprietary SDKs so the assistant answers questions with company-specific knowledge rather than generic web answers.

config.json specifies different models for autocomplete, chat, and edit per repository, so a Python repo uses DeepSeek-Coder while a React repo uses GPT-4o.