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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
solar-mini-4, nemotron-3.5-super-vl-120b-a12b
Free model promotions: Daily usage allowance: amount not published per account per model
Free promotions require a Cline account, with Google, GitHub or email signup and no card. The daily per-model scope is also reported by the client stop message: You've reached today's free usage limit for this model. The picker’s free list rotates. These models work only in the Cline IDE extension and CLI, not through the Cline API. Free usage may improve model performance and quality.
The vendor names no country it keeps the offer from (source, read 2026-09-26).
What you send may be used to train or improve models. In the vendor’s words: “Free model usage may be used to help improve model performance and quality.” (source).
cline-free/solar-mini4, cline-free/nemotron-3.5-super-vl, reflection/beam-free, nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-freefree lane of the models document at https://api.cline.bot/api/v1/ai/cline/recommended-models, each listed family checked in that laneEach line is a change to what this page publishes, dated the day it reached the list, in UTC.
2026-10-29 — Free models changed: added nemotron-3.5-super-vl-120b-a12b2026-10-21 — Free models changed: added solar-mini-4; dropped mimo-v2.6-flash, muse-spark-1.3-contributor2026-10-07 — Free models changed: added mimo-v2.6-flash2026-10-05 — Free models changed: dropped deepseek-v4.1-flash2026-09-28 — Free models changed: added deepseek-v4.1-flash2026-09-24 — Free models changed: added muse-spark-1.3-contributor2026-09-23 — Free models changed: dropped laguna-s-2.12026-09-14 — Free models changed: dropped deepseek-v4-flash2026-09-14 — Added: 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: 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 2026-11-01 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.