Is the key here that with Cline, it's passing huge amounts of the code into context, unlike Cursor? So in some sense it's not surprising it does a better job, because it's executing much more expensive API calls to the LLM provider
josvdwest · 12h ago
Yes Cline is more reflective of the actual price of inference from frontier models. It's not realistic to offer 500 requests at $20/month without severely limiting what these models can do.
People who have become adamant Cline users over a significantly cheaper option have found the ROI of a higher performing AI coding tool far outweighs the inference costs. Even $500/month is negligible if it can 5x (or more) the output of a high-salary engineer.
creer · 11h ago
Vibe coding started yesterday, so did Cursor. What Cline? Perhaps it's a little early to declare winners.
Oras · 12h ago
In your experiment, what was the cost of BYOK in cline?
josvdwest · 12h ago
Mine ranges around $2-20 per day depending on how much I use it and how complex the task and size of the project
Oras · 12h ago
That’s a lot compared to $20/month for cursor, no?
josvdwest · 11h ago
Yes, but Cursor usually doesn't solve the tasks I have
People who have become adamant Cline users over a significantly cheaper option have found the ROI of a higher performing AI coding tool far outweighs the inference costs. Even $500/month is negligible if it can 5x (or more) the output of a high-salary engineer.