Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/aden-hive/hive/vs/cline/cline
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/aden-hive/hive/vs/cline/cline.md
Description: hive and cline share 11 technologies: Anthropic, Vite, React, MCP, Tailwind CSS, tailwind-merge, Mermaid, Lucide, react-markdown, remark-gfm, and shiki. hive is written in Python and cline in TypeScript.

# hive vs cline

hive and cline share 11 technologies: Anthropic, Vite, React, MCP, Tailwind CSS, tailwind-merge, Mermaid, Lucide, react-markdown, remark-gfm, and shiki. hive is written in Python and cline in TypeScript.

- [aden-hive/hive](https://seerepo.com/r/aden-hive/hive): Multi-Agent Harness for Production AI
- [cline/cline](https://seerepo.com/r/cline/cline): Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: Anthropic, Vite, React, MCP, Tailwind CSS, tailwind-merge, Mermaid, Lucide, react-markdown, remark-gfm, shiki
- Only in hive: fastmcp, react-router-dom, litellm, Pydantic, psutil, fontsource-variable, echarts
- Only in cline: SQLite, PostHog, OpenAI, @opentui-ui/dialog, OpenTUI, opentui-spinner, @clack/prompts, chat, @agentclientprotocol/sdk, yaml, Zod, pino, class-variance-authority, @shikijs/themes, next-themes, Base UI, xyflow, Radix UI, sonner, @rive-app/react-webgl2, ansi-to-react, cmdk, embla-carousel-react, media-chrome, motion, react-jsx-parser, recharts, use-stick-to-bottom, ai, tokenlens, streamdown, jwt-decode, Cheerio, exceljs, image-size, js-yaml, mammoth, pdf-parse, turndown, opentelemetry, styled-components, @heroui/theme, @vscode/webview-ui-toolkit, HeroUI, react-virtuoso, react-textarea-autosize, react-remark, dompurify, rehype-highlight, unist-util-visit, marked, rehype-parse, rehype-remark, remark-stringify, unified, skills, ai-sdk, @langfuse/vercel-ai-sdk, @opentelemetry/sdk-trace-node, langfuse, @shadcn/react

## Side by side

| | hive | cline |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 408,502 lines written, 479 code files | 894,559 lines written, 1,877 code files |
| Who writes it | 8% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and GitHub Copilot | 2.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Codex |
| Activity | Last push November 8, 2026, 2,615 commits, 11,155 stars | Last push November 12, 2026, 7,670 commits, 71,559 stars |
| Tests | 468 test files. 48.2% of its code files have a test that imports them | 1,087 test files. 48.6% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, hive or cline?

cline, with 894,559 lines written; hive has 408,502.

The proof: [cline/cline's code at commit 50e77bc](https://github.com/cline/cline/tree/50e77bc1e8f7ab023b7986821e4b5f82ff51b8c4)

### Which has more GitHub stars, hive or cline?

cline, with 71,559 stars; hive has 11,155.

The proof: [cline/cline on GitHub](https://github.com/cline/cline)

### Which has more tests, hive or cline?

cline, with 1,087 test files; hive has 468.

The proof: [cline/cline's code at commit 50e77bc](https://github.com/cline/cline/tree/50e77bc1e8f7ab023b7986821e4b5f82ff51b8c4)

### Which was updated more recently, hive or cline?

cline: its last push was on November 12, 2026, and hive's on November 8, 2026.

The proof: [cline/cline's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/cline/cline/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, hive or cline?

hive: an AI signed 8% of its commits, with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and GitHub Copilot; in cline, 2.2%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in aden-hive/hive](https://seerepo.com/r/aden-hive/hive/ai)

## Sources

- aden-hive/hive: Read on November 12, 2026, at commit c6c2cdc (https://github.com/aden-hive/hive/tree/c6c2cdcfe5a6142cd0da3f82424afc9dd9721cc3)
- cline/cline: Read on November 12, 2026, at commit 50e77bc (https://github.com/cline/cline/tree/50e77bc1e8f7ab023b7986821e4b5f82ff51b8c4)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.