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 limit

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.