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Cline vs Mistral Vibe

Cline leads on trust: 92.2/100 (Grade A) against 85.6/100 (Grade A), a 6.6-point gap. Cline leads on maintenance and adoption, and rests on broader evidence.

A Cline 92.2

Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.

cline/cline · #11 overall · #1 Coding Agents · coverage A (4/5)

Choose Cline if maintenance and adoption matter most.

+3.9Maintenance: last push today, against 1d ago
+3.7Adoption: 5.9M weekly downloads against 318.8k
+1.5Safety / Integrity: 93% of recent commits signed, against 80%
+0.6Transparency: OSSF Scorecard 6.3 against 5.6

A Mistral Vibe 85.6

Minimal CLI coding agent by Mistral

mistralai/mistral-vibe · #91 overall · #6 Coding Agents · coverage B (3/5)

Mistral Vibe doesn't lead on any scored dimension in this pair.

Where they differ

20.0

Safety / IntegrityCline +1.5

18.5

13.9

TransparencyCline +0.6

13.3

20.0

MaintenanceCline +3.9

16.1

20.0

AdoptionCline +3.7

16.3

+0.3

Runtime calibrationMistral Vibe +3.1

+3.4

1 dimension identical: Identity 18.0 · Full evidence table

An independent, evidence-based trust comparison of Cline and Mistral Vibe, two Coding Agents projects in the HVTracker registry. Scores come from public, checkable signals — supply-chain provenance, OSSF Scorecard, maintenance, and adoption — not popularity.

Full evidence

Signal	Clinecline/cline	Mistral Vibemistralai/mistral-vibe
HVTrust score	92.2	85.6
Evidence grade	A	A
Coverage grade	A	B
Overall rank	#11	#91
Rank in Coding Agents	#1	#6
GitHub stars	71.2k	5.3k
Last updated	today	1d ago
Build provenance	Yes	Yes
OSSF Scorecard	6.3 / 10	5.6 / 10
License	Apache-2.0	Apache-2.0
Downloads	5.9M/wk	319k/wk
Trust dimensions (points earned)
Safety / integrity / 25	20.0	18.5
Identity & provenance / 18	18.0	18.0
Transparency / 17	13.9	13.3
Maintenance / 20	20.0	16.1
Adoption / 20	20.0	16.3
Runtime capability surface (full matrix)
MCP server	Declared	Implemented
External providers	—	1 — Mistral AI
Requires API keys	Yes	Yes
Plugin surface	plugins	plugins
Provenance drift	Match	Match

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How to read this: HVTrust (0–100) weighs supply-chain signals (provenance, OSSF Scorecard, signed commits, open license) alongside real-world adoption, scaled by an evidence-confidence factor. Grade bands: A ≥ 80, B ≥ 65, C ≥ 50, D < 50. Signals refresh daily. Full methodology v4.4 →