anytimelime — the free AI field report
What's free right now
22 free models made a real tool call today, out of 90 discovered, and the morning diff tells the story: qwen/qwen3.8-27b:free, stealth/union-alpha, inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl:free, liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free, nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini:free, google/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it, nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free, nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free, nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free, google/gemma-4-31b-it, openrouter/free, poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free, meta/llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct, meta/muse-glimmer-30b, mistralai/mistral-nemotron, nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b, nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b joined the tool-call club today, and qwen3.8-27b lost theirs since the 2026-09-16 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
poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free— openrouter · 0.6s · agentic 3/5openrouter/free— openrouter · 0.7s · agentic 3/5inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin:free— openrouter · 0.8s · agentic 3/5stealth/union-alpha— openrouter · 1.2s · agentic 3/5inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-sante:free— openrouter · 1.3s · agentic 3/5nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b— nvidia · 1.3s · agentic 3/5inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl:free— openrouter · 1.4s · agentic 3/5dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free— openrouter · 1.6s · agentic 3/5nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini:free— openrouter · 1.8s · agentic 3/5nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free— openrouter · 1.8s · agentic 3/5meta/muse-glimmer-30b— nvidia · 1.8s · agentic 3/5cohere/north-mini-code:free— openrouter · 1.9s · agentic 3/5google/gemma-4-31b-it— nvidia · 2.2s · agentic 3/5liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free— openrouter · 2.7s · agentic 3/5mistralai/mistral-nemotron— nvidia · 2.8s · agentic 3/5nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b— nvidia · 4.9s · agentic 3/5nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free— openrouter · 5.3s · agentic 3/5qwen/qwen3.8-27b:free— openrouter · 8.3s · agentic 3/5meta/llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct— nvidia · 15.5s · agentic 3/5nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free— openrouter · 16.9s · agentic 3/5google/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it— nvidia · 26.8s · agentic 3/5nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b— nvidia · 29.7s · agentic 3/5
The measured table
| latency | model | vendor | tool call | free now | agentic | yesterday | 3 days ago | a week ago |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.3 | qwen/qwen3.8-27b:free | openrouter | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 1.2 | stealth/union-alpha | openrouter | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 0.5 | meganova-ai/manta-flash-1.0 | MegaNova AI | untested | DOWN | — | ✗ | ✗ | · |
| 0.3 | aisingapore/Gemma-SEA-LION-v4-27B-IT | SEA-LION | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | 01-ai/yi-large | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 1.9 | cohere/north-mini-code:free | openrouter | yes | FREE | 3/5 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 0.6 | DeepSeek-V3.1 | sambanova | untested | CARD | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.2 | adept/fuyu-8b | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 1.6 | dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free | openrouter | yes | FREE | 3/5 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 0.6 | DeepSeek-V3.2 | sambanova | untested | CARD | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.2 | ai21labs/jamba-1.5-large-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.3 | 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 | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.3 | 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 | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.8 | inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin:free | openrouter | yes | FREE | 3/5 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 0.3 | MiniMax-M3 | sambanova | untested | CARD | — | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| 0.2 | databricks/dbrx-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | ✗ | · | ✗ |
| 1.3 | inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-sante:free | openrouter | yes | FREE | 3/5 | ✓ | · | ✓ |
| 0.3 | gemma-4-31B-it | sambanova | untested | CARD | — | ✗ | · | ✗ |
| 0.2 | deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | ✗ | · | ✗ |
| 1.4 | inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl:free | openrouter | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | ✓ |
| 0.3 | gpt-oss-120b | sambanova | untested | CARD | — | · | ✗ | ✗ |
| 60.1 | deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 | nvidia | yes (past) | DOWN | — | · | ✓ | ✗ |
| 2.7 | liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free | openrouter | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | ✓ |
| 0.1 | google/codegemma-1.1-7b | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 1.8 | nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini:free | openrouter | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | google/codegemma-7b | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 21.0 | nex-agi/nex-n2.5-pro:free | openrouter | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | google/deplot | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.5 | nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free | openrouter | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 26.8 | google/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it | nvidia | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 1.8 | nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free | openrouter | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | google/gemma-2b | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 16.9 | nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free | openrouter | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | google/gemma-3-12b-it | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety:free | openrouter | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | google/gemma-3-4b-it | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 5.3 | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free | openrouter | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 2.2 | google/gemma-4-31b-it | nvidia | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 0.7 | openrouter/free | openrouter | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | google/recurrentgemma-2b | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 2.0 | poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free | openrouter | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | ibm/granite-3.0-3b-a800m-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.6 | poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free | openrouter | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | ibm/granite-3.0-8b-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | ibm/granite-34b-code-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | ibm/granite-8b-code-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | z-ai/glm-5.2:free | openrouter | untested | DOWN | — | ✗ | · | · |
| 0.2 | meta/codellama-70b | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 15.5 | meta/llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct | nvidia | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 60.1 | meta/llama-3.2-90b-vision-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | meta/llama2-70b | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 1.8 | meta/muse-glimmer-30b | nvidia | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | microsoft/kosmos-2 | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | microsoft/phi-3-vision-128k-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | microsoft/phi-3.5-moe-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | mistralai/codestral-22b-instruct-v0.1 | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | mistralai/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3 | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | mistralai/mistral-large | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | mistralai/mistral-large-2-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 2.8 | mistralai/mistral-nemotron | nvidia | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | mistralai/mixtral-8x22b-v0.1 | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | moonshotai/kimi-k2.6 | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 60.1 | moonshotai/kimi-k3 | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | nv-mistralai/mistral-nemo-12b-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | nvidia/ai-synthetic-video-detector | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | nvidia/cosmos-reason2-8b | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 3.2 | nvidia/ising-calibration-1.5-31b | nvidia | text-only | FREE | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-51b-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-70b-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b-v1 | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | nvidia/llama3-chatqa-1.5-70b | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | nvidia/mistral-nemo-minitron-8b-8k-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 1.3 | nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b | nvidia | yes | FREE | 3/5 | ✓ | ✓ | · |
| 29.7 | nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b | nvidia | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 4.9 | nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b | nvidia | yes | FREE | 3/5 | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | nvidia/nemotron-4-340b-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | nvidia/nemotron-4-340b-reward | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | nvidia/nemotron-nano-3-30b-a3b | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | nvidia/nemotron-parse | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | nvidia/nemotron-parse-2.0 | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | nvidia/neva-22b | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | nvidia/nvclip | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.1 | nvidia/riva-translate-4b-instruct | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | · | · |
| 0.2 | nvidia/riva-translate-4b-instruct-v1.1 | nvidia | untested | DOWN | — | · | ✗ | · |