Cline said Kimi K3 is now free in Cline Desktop for a limited time to celebrate new users and give them more tokens to explore. The team will keep it running as long as it can—a promotional quota for the open-weights Desktop experience.

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  • ✓Official @cline: Kimi K3 is free in Cline Desktop for a limited time.
  • ✓Meant to welcome new users with extra exploration tokens; duration depends on capacity.
  • ✓Fits Cline Desktop open-weights / ClinePass / BYOK positioning and lowers the try-cost.
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