
Run Cline on Your Own LLM API: OpenAI-Compatible Setup for VS Code, JetBrains and the CLI
Cline is one of the most-installed open-source coding agents for VS Code, and it lets you bring your own model. Here is the complete setup to point it at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, using ParalonCloud's inference API and Qwen 3.8 27B as the worked example: the extension, the Plan/Act modes, the CLI, what to put in every field of the model configuration, and what a session actually costs.

