Cline offers Solar Mini 4 free for a limited time via cline-free
With a Cline account, set the provider to Cline and pick the FREE-tagged Solar Mini 4 (model ID cline-free/solar-mini4). It is a compact 35-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model on a rotating free promotion with a usage quota, available only in the IDE extension and CLI.
The briefing
Cline has added Upstage's Solar Mini 4 to its free model list. Anyone with a Cline account can use it in the IDE extension or CLI until the free quota runs out.
What you can use
The model name is Solar Mini 4, and the model ID is . It is a compact mixture-of-experts model with about 35B total parameters, roughly 3B active, and a context window around 524K tokens. It supports Korean, English, and Japanese, and is aimed at agentic workloads where speed and cost matter. Free models rotate over time.
After the free quota is used up, you can continue with ClinePass at .99 a month, or switch to Cline usage-billing.
Specs and public benchmarks
On Artificial Analysis, Solar Mini 4 scores 24 on the Intelligence Index (about #30 / 176), about 107.8 output tokens per second, and about --.36 per Index task. Sub-scores include AA-LCR around 83.3%, SciCode around 47.6%, and Terminal-Bench 4.0 around 1.0%. More detail: Upstage Solar Mini 4, OpenRouter, Artificial Analysis. On Cline this is the rotating free entry , not Upstage's paid API.
How to use it
- Open the Cline IDE extension or CLI and sign in with your Cline account.
- Set the API provider to Cline (usage-billing), then pick the FREE-tagged Solar Mini 4, or select directly.
- During promotional periods, free models may also appear 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.