anytimelime — the free AI field report
What's free right now
5 free models made a real tool call today, out of 26 discovered, and the morning diff tells the story: qwen3.8-27b, deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, codestral-latest, nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b, openai-fast joined the tool-call club today, and cohere/north-mini-code:free, dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free, inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin:free, inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-sante:free, inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl:free, deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731, liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free, deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-pro-0813 lost theirs since the 2026-09-11 report. The table below is measured, not marketed — each model got a real request with a real tool schema, timed from request to response. It says nothing a catalog can't; what it doesn't say is how long any of this survives.
How to use them with AnytimeLime
Clone the engine from github.com/fusionpoweredsoftware/anytimelime, set LIME_KEY to your OpenRouter key, and run ./lime.sh. It fetches today's verified roster and rotates across the passing models so no single free tier carries all your traffic. Your key stays on your own machine — the website never asks for it.
The churn
Free rosters change weekly — models die, rate-limit, or resurrect without notice. Last week's config is this week's outage. Re-squeeze before you depend on it.
Today's passing roster
codestral-latest— Mistral · 0.6s · agentic 3/5nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b— NVIDIA NIM · 1.0s · agentic 3/5qwen3.8-27b— Yolo-Auto · 1.6s · agentic 3/5deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731— Gonka Broker · 2.6s · agentic 3/5openai-fast— Pollinations · 7.2s · agentic 3/5
The measured table
| latency | model | vendor | tool call | free now | agentic | yesterday | 3 days ago | a week ago |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 | meganova-ai/manta-flash-1.0 | MegaNova AI | text-only | FREE | — | · | · | · |
| 1.6 | qwen3.8-27b | Yolo-Auto | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 2.6 | deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 | Gonka Broker | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 0.6 | codestral-latest | Mistral | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | ✓ | · |
| 1.0 | nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b | NVIDIA NIM | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | ✓ | · |
| 7.2 | openai-fast | Pollinations | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 12.2 | aisingapore/Gemma-SEA-LION-v4-27B-IT | SEA-LION | text-only | FREE | — | · | · | · |
| 0.4 | nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b | TokenReply | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | 01-ai/yi-large | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.3 | cohere/north-mini-code:free | openrouter | yes (past) | DOWN | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 0.3 | DeepSeek-V3.1 | sambanova | untested | CARD | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.2 | adept/fuyu-8b | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.2 | dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free | openrouter | yes (past) | DOWN | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 0.3 | DeepSeek-V3.2 | sambanova | untested | CARD | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.1 | ai21labs/jamba-1.5-large-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.2 | google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free | openrouter | yes (past) | DOWN | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.3 | Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct | sambanova | untested | CARD | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.1 | aisingapore/sea-lion-7b-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.2 | google/gemma-4-31b-it:free | openrouter | yes (past) | DOWN | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.3 | MiniMax-M2.7 | sambanova | untested | CARD | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.1 | bigcode/starcoder2-15b | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.2 | inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin:free | openrouter | yes (past) | DOWN | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 0.3 | MiniMax-M3 | sambanova | untested | CARD | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.1 | databricks/dbrx-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.2 | inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-sante:free | openrouter | yes (past) | DOWN | — | ✓ | ✓ | · |
| 0.3 | gemma-4-31B-it | sambanova | untested | CARD | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |