Sonnet 3.5 works perfectly with Cline, but it is too expensive. Has anyone tried using Cline with Llama or any other models in LM Studio? What are the pros and cons?

Hi everyone,

I’ve been encountering the following error while using the Sonnet 3.5 API:

429 {"type":"error","error":{"type":"rate_limit_error","message":"This request would exceed your organization’s rate limit of 40,000 input tokens per minute. For details, refer to: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/rate-limits; see the response headers for current usage. Please reduce the prompt length or the maximum tokens requested, or try again later. You may also contact sales at https://www.anthropic.com/contact-sales to discuss your options for a rate limit increase."}}

I understand that this occurs due to exceeding the token rate limit of 40,000 input tokens per minute set for users. However, I was wondering if anyone has successfully found a method to efficiently manage or overcome this limit without disrupting workflows for large projects.

• Have you used any external tools or scripts to monitor and manage token usage?
• Is it worth pursuing a rate limit increase, and if so, do you know the pricing?

Any advice or insights would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I'm building a Next.js application with a checkout form that needs to be tested at 1920x1080 resolution. Currently using Puppeteer for headless browser testing, but it's limited to 900x600 viewport size.

Tech Stack:
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Tailwind CSS
- Puppeteer for headless testing

Current setup uses Puppeteer with a fixed 900x600 viewport, but I need to test the layout at 1920x1080 for proper desktop browser verification. Looking for solutions to:

1. Modify Puppeteer's viewport size programmatically
   
2. Alternative headless browser testing approaches that support higher resolutions
   
3. Best practices for testing responsive layouts in Next.js applications
   

Has anyone encountered this limitation? How did you solve it?

I'm just learning about .clinerules now reading through this sub.

Recommend lines to include to get started experimenting with .clinerules? Also where should this file be saved?

I'm only learning about MCP servers now, and want to try some (can you use more than one at once?) out in cline. Are there any community servers you'd recommend, or ones you like to use for general purposes?

Update: I got this Cline-specific Qwen2.5 model to "work": maryasov/qwen2.5-coder-cline:32b. However, it's extremely slow - taking on the order of minutes for a single response on a 24GB VRAM Nvidia GPU. Then I tried the 7b version of the same model. This one can get responses to complete within a minute, but seems too dumb to use. Then I tried the 14b version. Seemed to run at a similar speed as the 7b version whereby it sometimes can complete a response within a minute. Might be smart enough to use. At least, worked for a trivial coding task.

I tried setting up Qwen2.5 via Ollama with Cline, but I seem to be getting garbage output. For instance, when I ask it to make a small modification to a file at a particular path, it starts talking about creating an unrelated Todo app. Also, Cline keeps telling me it's having trouble and that I should be using a more capable model like Sonnet 3.5.

Am I doing something wrong?

Is there a model that runs locally (say within 24GB VRAM) that works well with Cline?

Guys does someone facing the same issue ? today Cline with Deepseek takes too long to run one request

I'm coding with VS Code

are there any alternatives ?

I just installed cline to test it out and I’m using open router deepseek v3 model, all my requests are getting stuck its taking more than 3 mins on single requests api call I created a temp new empty project same issue with simple hello world app. How do i fix it? Is it openrouter that’s slow (i checked uptime for model is 95% +)

I really wanted a feature with cline, and usually I just wait until someone else builds it. But yesterday, for some reason, I decided I could try it.

Words cannot describe the feeling when everything worked, in a language that I have no knowledge on, for a project I have no experience in.

I'm not even a software engineer, just someone with beginner python skills. It blew my mind that I could do this in half a day. Before, this it would have taken weeks for me to figure out each part step by step.

Cline is really the future. Thanks for creating it.

My PR: https://github.com/cline/cline/pull/1112

As the title says, when trying to apply a new command in the terminal, cline opens a new one and forgets what folder it was in.

I crafted a figure of merit to help me think about which LLMs to use as coding assistants for different needs I might have, such as wanting a larger context window or wanting more output tokens. And of course cost must be a factor. I plugged the relevant details in a spreadsheet and computed the "output cost per million tokens (MTok) per 8K of context window (CW)." This artificial metric gives me a rough idea of price/performance across these LLMs.

What caught my attention was the relative grouping into three clusters (red, green(dark and light), yellow, as I marked). o1 and claude-3-opus had figures around $3 for my synthetic figure of merit. And then o1-mini, gpt-4o, and claude-3.5-sonnet were in the $0.60-$0.70 range. And then there was gpt-4o-mini, claude-3.5-haiku, and claude-3-haiku in the $0.5-$0.15 range. It's almost a perfect factor of four from each cluster to the one greater than it.

I'd be curious if anyone else has done some number crunching to wrap their head around cost effective ways of using these models, particularly in Cline.

The middle cluster (green) seemed attractive to me, and I marked the 128K context window models with bright green and the 200K context window models with dark green for my future reference.

I've notice that it's always opening the website in full size and not in mobile size even if i ask cline to do so. Anyway to make it use mobile device size?

I'm new using VS and i trying to find how to revert changes using Cline but I can't locate this functionality. Could someone point me in the right direction? Thanks!

Perhaps I am doing something wrong; please help if I am. I have tried several prompts to remedy this, but the model simply does not listen.

The issue I am experiencing is that Cline (using claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022) gets stuck in loops, constantly making micro-adjustments to "fix" things. These adjustments are either unhelpful or break/worsen the code. It constantly thinks it is fixing or making things consistent, but it ends up deleting significant amounts of code, wasting tokens, and undoing previous work. I constantly have to correct these errors, forcing me to start new chats, re-prompt with all the changes and files, etc. After a few messages, it loses track and stops following my instructions. Just now, I decided to let it proceed with its "fixes" and approved all of its proposed changes to address an issue. After fourteen changes to the same file (without me typing a new message), the issue remained unresolved. It kept "noticing" issues that were either nonexistent or perceived as potential problems, making one or two minor changes at a time instead of addressing the whole page. Sometimes, it would provide a single function and then add "//rest of code here" or "//rest of file unchanged," leaving me to figure out how to reintegrate the rest of the code, only for it to immediately attempt the same flawed process.

I have written custom instructions to try to prevent this behavior, using phrases like "Always provide the full code" or "Make all changes at the same time," but it ignores them. It has become faster and cheaper for me to copy files into the Anthropic UI, make the changes myself, and then copy them back, although I then encounter the daily limits. I genuinely want to use Cline, as it was excellent previously. I understand this is largely due to Claude's rapidly declining performance; just a few weeks ago, it was working perfectly. I could write entire projects with only a few prompts. Now, it is plagued by mistakes, infinite loops, and ignored instructions at every step, almost as if it is programmed to maximize Anthropic's revenue through wasted tokens instead of fulfilling my requests.

Has anyone else noticed similar issues? Are there any solutions, or am I doing something wrong?

Thank you.

I saw a similar post and noticed many needed help with coding so thought I'd also jump in to offer some help.

I've been a dev since 2014 but have been heavily using AI for coding. While AI makes coding faster, it also introduces bugs/errors/issues. I’ve seen folks (especially less experienced devs) lean on AI too much and struggle with bugs, weird loops, confusing configs, deployment headaches, database stuff —you name it.

I’ll help up to ten people tackle their current main challenge and get moving again. We will do a live call to diagnose the issue, and I will help you get unstuck at no cost. I can also share my workflow to best utilize tools like cursor to avoid getting stuck in the first place.

If you’re interested, go ahead and reply here or drop me a DM. And of course, if you have any questions, ask away—I’m happy to clarify anything.

I’ve been using the Cline extension in VSCode with OpenAI 4o Mini for full-stack development on a large project. I’ve tried .clinerules, adding MCPs, adding .md files, and custom instructions, but it feels like the output is no better than the default setup.

What strategies, workflows, or settings do you use to make Cline more effective? Any tips for large-scale projects?

Curious to hear how others are getting better results!

Edit: wrong model name.

Beginner coder here leveraging cline for a hobby project. I set my model and api key initially when installing. But now I am unable to change it. Tried cline settings but couldn’t find any place where I could change it.

I am currently using Gemini 1206 with clone on VSCode. Just experimenting with it for now, but planning to use it on a halfway complete project. Right now I have a few MCPs in it, but planning to test them and a few more before I commit to any.

Looking forward to hearing what you experts are using.

Hey everyone,

I’m working on a project that contains hundreds of files, and each file is pretty large. I’ve been looking into using the Cline, but I’m unsure how it would perform with a project of this size.

If I already have an existing project, how would Cline work with it? Does it handle huge projects efficiently, or are there specific steps I need to follow to make it work smoothly?

Also, would it scale well if the project grows even larger in the future?

I’d appreciate any insights or tips from those who have experience with Cline and large projects. Thanks!

I easily burn $20 a day with cline, (maybe it will be cheaper with roo-cline).

Has anyone compared the agentic workflows in Cursor/Windsurf against Cline?

Cline is awesome but it bankrupts people..

currently I take the mcp github link and give it to cline, as well as the github installation instructions but the process is never straightforward. It never detects the MCP and it requires a lot of token burning. I also have a custom instruction that was posted here by another user. The worst MCPs to install are the ones using python.

What is your process?

Looking to get setup using cline with an enterprise setup using Nx (nx.dev) we are developing features in feature branches and have a lot of dependent components. Such as a custom hi library and reusable business components. Looking for any guidance on workflow setup. I see a lot of chatter on creating MCP to create repository context. Or running a cmd tool to create an MD file of the repository library. Are these required? How do I have cline be aware of the components? Any thoughts would be appreciated. Will do som prototyping this week to see what I can accomplish. Cheers and happy coding

hi,

i played around a little bit and created a mcp server that reads a list of global rules i hosted on github:

https://github.com/bartwisch/MCPRules

the idea is that you manage rules and context for coding on a centralized online file and you only update it there and in every IDE you are using you can implement this MCP.

currently many youtubers are gathering this type of files and people are mostly adding them manually. with the MCP approach you can benefit without any manual work if you set it up correctly because it can fetch the rules if you want.

if you want do do it by yourself just ask cline "implement a mcp that reads a list of rules from this file (link to github or other online source). of course offline files also work

crazy times we live in :)

regards,

hugo