🤖 Coding agents & CLIs · no card · provisional — added recently, two weeks of probes still to pass · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-09-17 · cline.bot · back to the whole list
Open-source coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal; signing in to its own Cline provider unlocks a rotating set of free models, each with a daily allowance, beside pay-as-you-go credits, the $9.99 ClinePass plan and BYOK
laguna-s-2.1
“Cline periodically offers free model promotions that let you try select models at no cost, up to a limited usage quota”, and “Free models are available to any user with a Cline account” — a sign-in with Google, GitHub or email, no card. No figure is published; the quota is counted per model and per day, which is how Cline’s clients word the stop: You've reached today's free usage limit for this model. The lane is the free list the model picker reads, keyless at api.cline.bot, and it turns over “on a rotating, limited-time basis” — ids change within a day, so only Laguna S 2.1, in the lane since July, is in the Models column. The free-models page states two limits outright: “Free model usage is not supported through the Cline API. Free models are only available in the Cline IDE Extension and CLI”, and “Free model usage may be used to help improve model performance and quality”. Read 2026-09-14
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free lane of the models document at https://api.cline.bot/api/v1/ai/cline/recommended-models, every listed family required in that lane2026-09-17 — Free models changed: dropped deepseek-v4-flash2026-09-14 — Added to the list: Open-source coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal; signing in to its own Cline provider unlocks a rotating set of free models, each with a daily allowance, beside pay-as-you-go credits, the $9.99 ClinePass plan and BYOK2026-07-19 — Delisted2026-07-19 — Added to the list: Open-source (Apache-2.0) autonomous coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and CLI; BYOK — pair with free-tier provider keys or local models for zero model costGenerated from registry.yaml on 2026-09-18 and re-verified twice a week; the full list, the Atom feed and the machinery are at https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding.