Self-Hosted AI Coding Agents Compared

5 coding tools compared on AiRecMark archive scores, five-dimension quality, published entry pricing and documented target fit.

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Cline leads this field with 83.7/100 — +1.1 pts over Tabby.

All figures below are derived from the AiRecMark deterministic five-dimension evaluation archives. Pricing quotes are taken verbatim from each vendor's published plans.

Rank	Tool & Vendor	Quality / Perf / Usability	Score	Pricing	Best for	Spec
#1	CL ClineCline	86 78 76	83.7	Free open-source (BYOK) · Enterprise custom (S	Open-Source & Cost-Controlled Teams	Inspect
#2	TA TabbyTabbyML	80 84 84	82.6	Community free self-hosted (≤5 users) · Team $	Self-Hosting & Privacy Teams	Inspect
#3	CO ContinueContinue (Cursor)	82 80 84	82.3	Free open source · standalone paid plans no lo	OSS-Minded IDE Users	Inspect
#4	OP OpenHandsAll Hands AI	82 78 76	81.5	Free open source (self-host) · cloud services	Open-Source Agent Developers	Inspect
#5	RE Refact.aiRefact	82 80 82	81.2	Free · Pro from $10/mo (40 agent requests/day)	Self-Hosting & Fine-Tuning Teams	Inspect

Five-Dimension Matrix

Dimension	Cline	Tabby	Continue	OpenHands	Refact.ai
Quality	86	80	82	82	82
Features	84	76	78	82	78
Usability	76	84	84	76	82
Performance	78	84	80	78	80
Value	92	90	88	88	84

Choose By Fit

Cline

Cline · 83.7/100

Choose Cline if you need open-source & cost-controlled teams.

No token markup — bring your own model keys
Apache-2.0 transparency with self-host path

Free open-source (BYOK) · Enterprise custom (SSO/SLA/RBAC)

Inspect Cline

Tabby

TabbyML · 82.6/100

Choose Tabby if you need self-hosting & privacy teams.

Free self-hosted community edition
Your code never leaves your infra

Community free self-hosted (≤5 users) · Team $19/seat/mo · C

Inspect Tabby

Continue

Continue (Cursor) · 82.3/100

Choose Continue if you need oss-minded ide users.

Open-source core remains freely available
Hub of MCP rules and blocks

Free open source · standalone paid plans no longer published

Inspect Continue

OpenHands

All Hands AI · 81.5/100

Choose OpenHands if you need open-source agent developers.

Purpose-built for open-source agent developers
Multi-file agentic edits out of the box

Free open source (self-host) · cloud services paid

Inspect OpenHands

Refact.ai

Refact · 81.2/100

Choose Refact.ai if you need self-hosting & fine-tuning teams.

Open-source agent with Docker self-hosting
Unlimited free completions (Qwen2.5-Coder)

Free · Pro from $10/mo (40 agent requests/day) · Enterprise

Inspect Refact.ai

Deterministic Takeaway

Cline tops the composite index at 83.7/100. Dimension leaders across the field — Quality: Cline, Features: Cline, Usability: Tabby, Performance: Tabby, Value: Cline. Every ranking and dimension value on this page is drawn from the archive-recorded AiRecMark tool archives as of 2026-09-17 and can be traced back to the public tool profiles.

Archive Record