Cline Desktop: Free Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, Qwen 3.8 and More
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Original video: Cline Desktop: Free Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, Qwen 3.8 and More · Channel: Code A Program · 06:12 · Watch on YouTube
Topics: AI agents, Task and workflow automation, AI developer tools, Local and open-source models
Summary
Section titled “Summary”The video explores Cline Desktop, a beta desktop app for using AI coding agents, and highlights its selection of free open-weight models, including Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, and Qwen 3.8 27B. The presenter reviews the app’s features, such as connections to more than 220 providers, local Ollama models, session imports, remote environments, voice input, extensions, and scheduled jobs. In a brief coding test, Kimi K3 creates a 3D pill organizer; a larger test uses DeepSeek to build a Nuxt 3 and SQLite 3 Medium clone with Google authentication. The presenter says the app is still in beta and frames its free model limits as a way to keep working by switching models when one reaches its limit.
Key points
Section titled “Key points”- Cline Desktop is presented as a standalone app for Windows and Mac that is still in beta.
- Free model options mentioned include Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 Flash, and Qwen 3.8 27B, with daily rate limits.
- The presenter describes several open-weight models as capable coding options, while noting they are not ahead of Astra and Fable 5.2.
- The app supports more than 220 API providers and can connect to locally run models through Ollama.
- Users can import existing sessions from Claude, Codex, and OpenCode, and use remote SSH hosts as development environments.
- Other features include voice input, tools, plugins, skills, MCPs, rules, a marketplace, and scheduled agent jobs.
- Kimi K3 completed the 3D pill organizer task in around four minutes with 12 tool calls; the presenter considered the result decent.
- The DeepSeek test produced a functional Medium clone using Nuxt 3 and SQLite 3, including working Google authentication and database storage.
- The presenter notes a UI indicator issue during the first test and says users can report issues or contribute fixes through GitHub.
Chapters
Section titled “Chapters”| Start | Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 00:00 | Cline Desktop and its model selection | The presenter introduces the beta desktop app and previews its free open-weight coding models. |
| 02:03 | Free models and app features | The video covers additional free model options and features including providers, imports, remote environments, customization, and scheduled jobs. |
| 04:08 | Kimi K3 coding test | Kimi K3 creates a 3D pill organizer, and the presenter explains a beta UI indicator issue. |
| 05:09 | DeepSeek full-stack test and conclusion | DeepSeek builds a Medium-style app with authentication and database storage, followed by the presenter’s assessment of free model limits. |
Quotes
Section titled “Quotes”The installation is also simple. — 00:30
a lot of the other open weight models are also available for free with a daily rate limit for each model. — 02:03
There are currently more than 220 providers available — 03:07
The task completed in around 4 minutes with 12 tool calls. — 04:08
if you reach the limit on one model, you can switch to another model and continue working. — 06:12
Concepts and entities
Section titled “Concepts and entities”Cline Desktop, Cline, Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, Qwen3.8 27B, Ollama, Context 7 MCP, Nuxt 3, SQLite 3
Full transcript (original language)
Section titled “Full transcript (original language)”00:00 Hello everyone, welcome back to the channel. Today we are taking a look at Klein desktop, a new standalone desktop app from Klein that brings AI coding agents directly to your desktop. Klein is an open-source coding agent with more than 11 million developers, and some of you may already know Klein through the CLI or the VS Code extension. Recently, Klein introduced their new desktop app for both Windows and Mac. The interesting part is that it gives you access to several powerful open weight
00:30 models, including some models that are available for free. The installation is also simple. You can just download the desktop app and install it. So, I have already done that. And this is what the Klein desktop app currently looks like. It appears to still be in beta, but there are already quite a few interesting features here. So, the first thing I want to check is the model selection. Here you can see Kimmy K3, which is available for free. We also have DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, which is another free option. If you watch my previous
01:00 video where I tested DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, you already know how capable this model can be for coding. There are also models like Muse Spark 1.3, GLM 5.3 Flash, and several other options available here. Now, if we look at the benchmarks, things get even more interesting. For example, Kimmy K3 has strong results on the Deep Sweep coding benchmark, putting it close to Fable 5. And on Terminal Bench, it even beats Fable 5. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has strong results
01:32 on its official benchmarks, making it one of the strongest flash models compared with other models in the same category. And GLM 5.3 Flash is another interesting model with benchmark results that are almost at the same level as Opus 4.8. If you look at the official artificial analysis leaderboard, you can also see several Chinese open weight models with strong positions. Over the last few months, these open models have been making significant progress, especially for coding. They’re not ahead of Astra and Fable 5.2, but models like
02:03 Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, and GLM 5.3 Flash are still very capable options for coding. And that is exactly why I wanted to try Klein Desktop and see how these models actually perform in real coding tasks. And it’s not just Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, a lot of the other open weight models are also available for free with a daily rate limit for each model. For example, if I scroll down, you can also see Qwen 3.8 27B available for free, which is another
02:35 really good model for coding. So, for the first test, I’m going to select Kimi K3 and give it a simple coding task. I’m going to ask it to create a 3D pill organizer box. This is just a quick test to see how Kimi K3 performs, and after this, maybe we can try one bigger task. Meanwhile, while the task is running, let me quickly show you some of the other features available in Klein Desktop. First, under API providers, you can connect other providers as well. There are currently more than 220 providers available, and some of them
03:07 also offer free limits for their models. You can even connect Ollama, so if you are running models locally, you can use those models with Klein, too. There is also an import option, which I really like. You can import your existing sessions from Claude, Codex, and OpenCode, so you do not have to start everything from scratch. Klein also supports remote environments, where you can manage remote SSH hosts and use them as your development environment. There’s also voice input, which lets you speak instead of typing.
03:37 You just need to connect a supported speech-to-text model. Under customize, you can manage tools, plugins, skills, MCPs, and rules. There is also a marketplace where you can add more extensions. For example, I really like Context 7 MCP. It provides up-to-date code examples from documentation when you are working with different frameworks. I already made a full video about Context 7 MCP, so you can check that out if you want to see how it works. And finally, we have schedule. You can create scheduled agent jobs for
04:08 recurring tasks, such as finding critical bugs, scanning for vulnerabilities, summarizing daily changes, or keeping your documentation updated. For the first test, the task completed in around 4 minutes with 12 tool calls. And this is the output we got. It is a pretty decent result. I do not see any major glitches, and we have two different types of pills inside the organizer. If you try the same task with DeepSeek, you can probably get an even more detailed result, but for a quick test, this is still a good output from
04:39 Kimiko 3. Also, you can see that when I ran the task, I selected the extra mode, but the indicator is showing a low level. This happens because the indicator changes when I navigate through different pages in the desktop app. For this entire task, I was using the extra mode, so this is just a UI issue. Klime desktop is still in beta, so there can be some UI issues. Since it’s open source, you can also go to the GitHub repository, report an issue, or even contribute a fix yourself. Now, for the final test, I wanted to try
05:09 something much bigger using DeepSeek. I asked it to build a Medium clone using Nuxt 3 and SQLite 3. If you don’t know Nuxt, it’s a full-stack framework built around Vue. And if you are not familiar with Vue, it’s a JavaScript framework for building web user interfaces. For this task, I also asked it to integrate Google authentication. So, let’s wait and see how it handles the whole application. And it’s almost completed. Right now, it’s just running through the testing files, and then we should be able to see the complete website. So,
05:40 this is the final result. Let me try signing in, and it looks like the Google authentication is working. I’m not really focusing on the UI design here. The main goal was to test whether it could build a functional full-stack application. I tested creating posts and the other features, and everything was working with the data being stored in the database as expected. I’m not saying you can cancel your paid plans for Claude or Open AI if you have them. The main advantage here is that Claude gives you access to free limits on several powerful open-weight models. So, if you
06:12 reach the limit on one model, you can switch to another model and continue working. And that’s pretty much it for Claude desktop. If you want more updates like this, follow me on X, and make sure to subscribe to the channel. I’ll be posting different types of videos, not just this kind of content. Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you in the next one.