Cline offers Reflection's open 501B Beam model free for a limited time

Reflection open-sourced its first model, Beam 1.0, on October 16, and Cline has now added it to its free model list. Anyone with a Cline account can pick it in the IDE extension or CLI and use it at no cost until the free quota runs out.

Beam is built for coding, reasoning, and long-running agent tasks, and its coding benchmark results are strong, so it is worth a run on a real repository.

What you can use

The model name is Beam, and the model ID is reflection/beam-free. It is part of Cline's rotating, limited-time free model promotion with a usage quota, and the free lineup changes over time.

After the free quota is used up, you can continue with ClinePass at $9.99 a month, or switch to Cline usage-billing.

Specs and public benchmarks

Beam 1.0 is a mixture-of-experts model with 501B total parameters and 23B active per token, with weights released under Apache 2.0. It takes text input only, supports a 1M-token context window, and offers five reasoning levels: low, medium, high, xhigh, and max.

In Reflection's published BF16 results it scores 81.6% on SWE-bench Verified, 80.1% on Terminal Bench 2.1, 66.1% on SWE-Bench Pro v1, and 90.6% on GPQA Diamond.

How to use it

1. Open the Cline IDE extension or CLI and sign in with your Cline account.
2. Set the API provider to Cline (usage-billing), then pick the FREE-tagged Beam, or select reflection/beam-free directly.
3. During promotional periods, free models are also available under the ClinePass provider.

Free models are not available through the Cline API, only in the IDE extension and CLI. Free usage may be used to help improve model performance and quality.

Details: Cline Free Models and Reflection's Beam announcement.

Other free ways to use it

Besides Cline, these platforms also offer Beam for free right now:

• Beam 1.0 (Free) on Vercel AI Gateway if you want plain API access.
• OpenCode Zen and Go don't charge usage for Beam Free.