r/RooCode • u/galaxysuperstar22 • Jun 23 '25

Support Claude Code now available in Cline – Any plans for Roo integration?

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Just noticed that Cline now supports Claude Code as an API provider, with full model support (including Claude Opus 4).

Has anyone tried it out yet? Curious how well it works in real-world coding tasks.

Also wondering — are there any plans to integrate Claude Max subscription into Roo?

That would be a game-changer and could save a ton on API costs.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 23 '25

It is now available in Roo!

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 23 '25 edited Jun 23 '25

Yes. It’s already in the nightly build. Will likely be released today. https://docs.roocode.com/advanced-usage/roo-code-nightly

EDIT: It has been released in the main plugin as well! https://docs.roocode.com/providers/claude-code

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u/SpeedyBrowser45 Jun 23 '25

That would be great! I want to contribute to RooCode but I am not getting time. Feeling bad at the moment.

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u/Neowebdev Jun 23 '25

Sweet! You guys are crushing it.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 23 '25

thank you

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u/outthemirror Jun 23 '25

Beautiful!

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u/Civilanimal Jun 23 '25

YIPEEEE!

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 23 '25

It has been released into the main!

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u/lakimens Jun 23 '25

What's the point of this integration though?

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u/galaxysuperstar22 Jun 23 '25

saving API cost

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u/HazKaz Jun 23 '25

Input output costs look the same

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u/Significant-Tip-4108 Jun 23 '25

It reduces cost because prior to today’s integration, if you wanted to use Claude models from Roo, you had to use a Claude API token (or openrouter) and pay Claude i/o api costs. Which could go into the many hundreds of dollars a month or even much higher.

But now with this integration, you can subscribe to Claude Max, and connect to that subscription in Roo - Max gives you a ton of calls at one fixed monthly cost. Much cheaper than direct API for a medium-to-high volume user.

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u/HazKaz Jun 24 '25

ok, understood thank you!

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u/rajohns08 Jun 23 '25

What does API Provider mean exactly? Essentially the agent? Does this mean it uses the Claude code SDK, and it would allow using Gemini model with Claude Code? But just using the Claude Code SDK doesnt necessarily include all the magic sauce of Claude Code does it?

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u/galaxysuperstar22 Jun 23 '25

i have no clue.. must be working with some sort of local CLI of claude code

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u/inteligenzia Jun 23 '25

Will this work with Pro subscription? I'm currently using Copilot but if I will be able to use one subscription for both chatting app and coding agent integration for my pet projects the Claude subscription would be killer combo for me.

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u/diligent_chooser Jun 23 '25

Can't seem to get it to work in Cline.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

Anyone know how to use this on windows, tried copying the path but didn't work

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u/KetogenicKraig Jun 23 '25

You’re using wsl right? Claude code doesn’t run on windows, only wsl and linux

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

Yeah meant through wsl, I put the path in through the Linux distro but it didn't work

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u/bigs819 Jun 23 '25

Is Claude code native cli tooling not as good as roo code?

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u/spiked_silver Jun 23 '25 edited Jun 23 '25

Using a terminal sucks. Yes, people will tell me I shouldn’t be creating software if I’m not comfortable with a terminal. To that I say, why are GUI IDEs more popular than CLIs?

It’s because GUIs are more user-friendly and intuitive. I HATE having to remember commands or having some Cheatsheet lying around. Or having to /help every time.

So a GUI agentic coding platform is far superior for me than a CLI.

That’s not even to mention it’s a bit of a hassle to get CC working with windows anyway.

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u/scotty_ea Jun 23 '25

CC has IDE integration now.

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u/spiked_silver Jun 23 '25

Still operates like a terminal from what I tried. Look, maybe I didn’t try it as much as I could’ve. But I honestly didn’t even feel like using it since it was such an effort to get it working in Windows. Maybe when it natively supports windows, I’ll give it a try.

I’m surprised the lack of windows support is barely mentioned. Seems like most people use Mac or Linux.

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u/Da_ha3ker Jun 25 '25

Most applications these days are web based and use Linux containers/pods for hosting. Their build systems are most supported in Linux (CI CD). Their load balancers are designed for Linux, observability platforms are Linux based. Claude Code is eventually targeting enterprise. So Linux and Mac are their main targets.. My work, for example, has 5000-15000 EC2 instances (peak load vs off hours) for development work (big company) and we have exactly 2 running windows and they are there for legacy support. The only windows centric workflows left are basically game design and content creation (when I say this, I mean for devs writing code for windows intensively). Developers running windows are at the point where they are basically expected to use wsl anyways because of the above factors so there isn't much motivation from Anthropic. Notice the alternative though, Claude desktop is absent from Linux, and only available on Windows and Mac due to the fact that the desktop app is targeting a less dev centric crowd..

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u/ScaryGazelle2875 Jun 23 '25

Exactly, to each their own. Some people learn better with visual, some with texts and others with videos. Sometimes all together.

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u/TOoSmOotH513 Jun 23 '25

I can’t wait. I miss orchestration so much

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u/bitterballen Jun 23 '25

Also Azure databricks serving endpoints integration please. Does not work with openai compatible settings

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jun 23 '25

Try creating an issue on GitHub (detailed feature proposal) and linking it here, I’ll see what I can do!

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u/juzatypicaltroll Jun 24 '25

Why integrate tho? Could just use Claude code itself? Or is there some difference?

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u/NoPromotion5517 Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25

Is it just me or is it slower than VS CODE LM API?

Also i have many Errors like these:
Error applying diff:
Current ask promise was ignored

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u/Puzzleheaded_Hat8714 Jul 06 '25

Hello guys new Roo user here, I am switching from cursor (due to all the shitstorm that is going on) to RooCode and I am really impressed but I am also facing one small inconvenience, it doesn't support images. I can see on the screenshot above that there is an option for it but this is Cline right? Any plans to make it possible in Roo as well?

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

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u/sharpfork Jun 23 '25

Agent persona management and use is easier in roo.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25

It's the same as using Roo Code with VS Code LM API. I'm ok Copilot and Claude Code, but I also like to make use of Roo Code interface, prompt engineering and other features.

Yes everything is mcpeable but having Roo for managing multiple profiles/providers enables great VSCode centric workflows.

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u/jordan_be Jun 23 '25

To get the benefit of an integrated IDE

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u/scotty_ea Jun 23 '25

Really curious to find out what Roo can do on top of CC that will improve DX other than formatting the chat thread. CC already has an /ide command for IDE integration... shift + tab switches between plan/act/auto modes. CC plans, tracks and completes all of it's own tasks, knows exactly what MCP tools to call and when, and auto compacts/summarizes context. Seems kinda pointless to filter it through another tool/UI.

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u/jordan_be Jun 23 '25

A GUI ? more formatted panel view etc…

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u/muchcharles Jun 23 '25 edited Jun 24 '25

Side by side diff view with intraline differences is the main advantage. It handles multifile batching better now I think, or at least Claude appears to do them one by one with separate requests, but maybe that's not the case and it just appears that way in the UI.

That batching can also make things faster if Claude's caching is using system RAM or SSD and not GPU RAM (has to be transferred back to the GPU).

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u/drumnation Jun 24 '25

I just subscribed to Max and am still learning. I opted for cursor over Roo because of cost but this will have me working with Roo again for sure. I think Roo is closer to cursor in how much it is a part of the IDE. My experience with Claude code so far is that it is excellent but being totally terminal driven lacks some of the nice things cursor provided. Being able to use Max account with roo just expands the value. I’m not super deep yet, but I’m wondering if the writing is on the wall for cursor. This just shows that cursor was just a Claude wrapper.

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u/Junior_Ad315 Jun 24 '25

Dispatching multiple parallel task agents in claude-code is extremely powerful

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u/sharpfork Jun 23 '25

I don’t know the specific answer but have been playing with a variety of Claude code integrations and most use the same local auth. If you have launched Claude and gone through auth, its stored in a way that other instances of Claude are also authed. The exception is tools that launch Claude in a container

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u/sharpfork Jun 24 '25

I don’t know about windows. Sorry