Make Cline enterprise-ready using an AI Gateway

Cline is an AI coding assistant designed to work deeply with your development workflow. Whether you're debugging, building new features, or reviewing complex codebases, Cline acts as a collaborative agent, helping developers move faster with context-aware, multi-step code suggestions.

Unlike traditional autocomplete tools, Cline goes beyond simple line completions. It can reason through problems, assist with architecture-level tasks, and even follow up across iterations, making it feel less like a tool and more like an autonomous coding partner.

Scaling Cline across teams

Cline delivers a strong productivity boost for individual developers. But when adopted across multiple teams, it exposes operational gaps that most organizations aren’t equipped to handle.

Firstly, it's difficult to restrict model access by user, team, or environment. This makes it tough to enforce policies on who can use what, and can lead to unintentional usage of high-cost models.  With growing usage, teams need a clear understanding of how Cline is being used by whom, when, and at what cost. Without centralized logging or analytics, it becomes impossible to track usage patterns or tie spend back to specific teams or projects.

Sensitive data such as API keys, internal code, or customer information can unintentionally be included in prompts. Without a layer of protection, these risks go unchecked, potentially leading to compliance violations or data exposure.

How Portkey makes Cline enterprise-ready

Portkey acts as the control plane for all AI usage across your organization, including tools like Cline.

With Cline and Portkey integration, you get centralized access, security, observability, and governance, without requiring any changes to how developers use Cline on a day-to-day basis.

Use any model with Cline via Portkey’s unified AI Gateway

With the AI Gateway, you get access to over 1600 LLMs across providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Google, and more.

Portkey’s AI Gateway allows you to:

• Use Cline with models that aren’t natively supported
• Dynamically route requests to optimize for latency, quality, or cost
• Centrally manage all model API keys and enforce access policies

This gives teams more flexibility, allows platform leads to experiment with model selection, and ensures you're not locked into a single provider, even when using Cline as the front-end interface.

Add guardrails for security and compliance

Cline often works with sensitive inputs—from proprietary source code to customer data. Without guardrails in place, this data could be exposed to external LLMs, creating security and compliance risks.

AI guardrails help mitigate these risks by enforcing security policies at the gateway level, before any request reaches the model.

With Portkey, you can:

• Automatically detect and redact PII such as emails, phone numbers, names, and more
• Apply custom filtering rules to block prompts containing secrets, credentials, or source code patterns
• Set global compliance rules that apply consistently across all teams using Cline

These protections are applied transparently—developers keep using Cline as usual, but every request is checked and filtered based on your organization’s security policies.

Optimize performance with caching

Users often repeat similar requests. Without optimization, this leads to unnecessary token usage and latency.

Portkey's AI Gateway lets you add simple and semantic caching to your Cline workflow.

This reduces both response time and cost, especially in high-volume usage scenarios. For large teams, caching ensures that repeated prompts like “write a unit test for this function” or “explain this error” aren’t billed over and over again.

You can configure caching policies by route, model, team, or project, giving platform teams full control over caching behavior without interrupting how developers use Cline.

Enable centralized observability

Without observability, it’s impossible to answer basic questions like:

• Who is using which models?
• How much are we spending?
• What’s the latency or failure rate across teams?

Portkey brings full-stack LLM observability into your Cline setup.

• Detailed logs for every request, including inputs, outputs, the model used, and the cost
• Real-time dashboards showing usage trends, token consumption, latency, and error rates
• Filters by user, team, environment, or project, so you can isolate insights and troubleshoot quickly

Apply governance and cost controls

As Cline adoption grows, so does the need for governance. Without clear usage limits or access controls, teams can easily overuse premium models or exceed budgets, often without realizing it.

The AI Gateway brings governance tooling that helps you scale Cline responsibly.

• Set budget limits at the team, project, or environment level
• Control who can access which models using role-based access control (RBAC)
• Trigger alerts or auto-disable routes when usage crosses defined thresholds

These controls ensure that AI usage stays aligned with your organization’s cost, compliance, and access policies, without limiting developer productivity.

Cline gives developers an intuitive, powerful AI coding assistant that integrates seamlessly into their workflow. But when teams across an organization start adopting it, you need the right infrastructure in place to manage cost, enforce security, and ensure compliance.

With Portkey, you get:

• Access to 1600+ models through a unified AI gateway
• Security guardrails for PII and sensitive content
• Performance boosts via caching and failover management
• Centralized observability with per-user and per-team insights
• Governance tools to manage spend, access, and usage policies

All of this happens behind the scenes, allowing developers to continue using Cline as they always have, while platform teams gain the control and visibility they need.

If you’re planning to scale Cline across your organization, ensure you do so with the guardrails and governance that production environments require. Portkey makes it possible. Try it yourself or book a demo today.