Cline Bot = FREE Cursor Alternative

Don't pay for Cursor or Windsurf.

Why?

Because Cline + OpenRouter.AI can you give the exact same experience for FREE (up to 1k requests/day)

I made a YT demo

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@lynk

1 day ago

Thank you for sharing !

@SyrupMaker

1 day ago

Okay, this is so cool! Off to watch the YT video, and I'll give my review after!

@SyrupMaker

21 hours ago

Video is short and straight to the point, no fillers and not a lot of talk. My best part was how your hairdo kept changing 😄😄

@vincent

1 day ago

Hey, thanks for adding this. I thought it was a real valuable post for the community and moved it to #coding (so it appears on the homepage).

I've also given you lifetime Huzzler Black membership for this (and because you have a track record of creating good posts / comments), thanks a lot for adding value to the community 😁

Also wanted to ask, how to you feel cline performs vs cursor?

@ari

22 hours ago

Vincent thanks for curating this community and for your generosity.

I am really happy with Cline after 3 days.
The switching cost from a UX perspective is 0.
The granularity is incredibly manageable i.e. access to MCP servers, access to local files, autonomous completions for up to 20 requests in a row without requesting for permissions.
Also, all of my calls to OpenRouter work -- previously Windsurf and Cursor would occasionally fail to complete requests because of server overload on their end.

Such an amazing OSS https://github.com/cline/cline

Again thank you.

@vincent

22 hours ago

That's crazy. When I have time left I'll try out cline and maybe switch permanently. Thanks again for posting this, it's really valuable