Cline coding plans

Value snapshot · GLM-5.3 · typical shape · req / $1

One dollar on Cline buys 396 GLM-5.3 requests at its best plan — strongest value we track for this flagship. Exact-priced flagship only — no proxy claims in the headline.

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7 events in the last 90 days — 2 worse, 4 better.

• Price28 Sept 2026

  The Reference-pricing table on docs.cline.bot/getting-started/clinepass now carries rows for the three ClinePass models that had been rendering n/a since they joined the roster, so all three are priced from their own rows: GLM-5.3 Flash $0.15/$0.50/$0.03 cached read, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash $0.30/$1.20/$0.006 and Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor $0.10/$0.20/$0.002. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash prints ONE unsplit row where DeepSeek V4 Pro gets separate Peak and Off-peak rows, and that figure is DeepSeek's peak rate — DeepSeek's own page (api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/) bills off-peak at half, so the off-peak headline $0.15/$0.60/$0.003 is stored, the same convention this plan already follows for DeepSeek V4 Pro. Budgets are the plan's documented $60 cheap-model class (ClinePass publishes no per-model cap). The plan roster is also aligned to the docs' own models-table order, which puts GLM-5.3 first again (GLM-5.2 held that slot until the 2026-09-28 deprecations). Price ($9.99/month), quota and the nine other reference rates are unchanged.

  Verified 2026-09-28 · source

• Models28 Sept 2026

  The four ClinePass models the Cline team deprecated on 2026-09-21 are gone from the live docs: the "ClinePass includes the following models" table on docs.cline.bot/getting-started/clinepass now lists 12 models without GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code or DeepSeek V4 Flash, their Reference-pricing rows are gone too, and a new deprecations note states "GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code, and DeepSeek V4 Flash are no longer available on ClinePass", pointing at DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3 instead. All four are removed from the plan roster and its per-model rules, so their calculator rows disappear. DeepSeek's own pricing page corroborates the DeepSeek V4 Flash retirement ("the corresponding models have been retired, their requests are served by the DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash model and billed at the Flash price"). The marketing page cline.bot/cline-pass still names all four in its hand-maintained "Included models" list — stale copy, not a contradicting service statement, because it also omits DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor, which the docs list. Price ($9.99/month), quota and the surviving reference rates are unchanged; DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor and GLM-5.3 Flash stay unpriced (their new docs rows were not applied here).

  Verified 2026-09-28 · source

• Models18 Sept 2026

  ClinePass added DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor to its plan roster, announced in the Cline team email of 2026-09-17. Neither model is listed on cline.bot/cline-pass or in the docs Reference-pricing table yet (checked 2026-09-18), so both are stored without a rate and their calculator rows show n/a. Price ($9.99/month), quota and all published reference rates are unchanged.

  Verified 2026-09-18 · source

• Price17 Sept 2026

  ClinePass ended its limited-time first-month promotion: every price block on cline.bot/cline-pass (hero, pricing card, FAQ, CTA) now reads $9.99/month and the $4.99 intro offer is gone. The standard rate was already $9.99 and is unchanged — what disappeared is the $4.99 first-month price.

  Verified 2026-09-17 · source

• Models17 Sept 2026

  The ClinePass roster grew from 12 to 14 models with no removals: the plan page now lists GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash alongside the previous 12. Price, quota and all published reference rates are unchanged.

  Verified 2026-09-17 · source

Head-to-head

Cline compared side by side

Two plans side by side — shared models, BYOK reachability and value per $1, generated from the same verified data as the calculator.

• ClinevsOpenCode Go
• ClinevsCommandCode

Flagship rank · GLM-5.3: #24 (Max config) on the Agent Arena agent leaderboard — 1.78% net improvement (board fetched 2026-10-19).

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