anytimelime — the free AI field report

2026-09-22 · generated by a free model interviewing free models · anytimelime, formerly Project42 · get the engine →

What's free right now

22 free models made a real tool call today, out of 99 discovered, and the morning diff tells the story: tokeness/free, nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free, nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b joined the tool-call club today, and nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free, poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free lost theirs since the 2026-09-21 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

The measured table

Click any model for its endpoint and ready-to-run snippets in curl, Python, Go, Rust, and more.

latencymodelvendortool callfree nowagenticyesterday3 days agoa week ago
60.1deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flashnvidiauntestedDOWN—···
0.201-ai/yi-largenvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.3DeepSeek-V3.1sambanovauntestedCARD—✗✗✗
3.5MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7Gonka BrokeryesFREE3/5✓··
0.3aisingapore/Qwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B-ITSEA-LION (AI Singapore)yes (past)DOWN—✗··
0.3codestral-latestMistralyes (past)DOWN—✗··
1.0cohere/north-mini-code:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓✓✓
0.1deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731NVIDIA NIMyes (past)DOWN—✗✓✓
2.0north-mini-codeTokenReplyyesFREE3/5✓··
1.0openai-fastPollinationsyesFREE3/5✓··
0.5openaiPollinationsyesFREE3/5✓··
0.2qwen3.8-27bYolo-Autoyes (past)DOWN—✗··
12.0tokeness/freeTokenessyesFREE3/5✗··
0.2adept/fuyu-8bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.3DeepSeek-V3.2sambanovauntestedCARD—✗✗✗
0.5deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731Gonka Brokeryes (past)DOWN—✗··
2.4dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓✓✓
0.5openaiPollinationsyesFREE3/5✓··
0.2ai21labs/jamba-1.5-large-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.3Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-InstructsambanovauntestedCARD—✗✗✗
3.7zai-org/GLM-5.3-FlashGonka BrokeryesFREE3/5✓··
0.3google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:freeopenrouteryes (past)DOWN—·✗✗
0.1aisingapore/sea-lion-7b-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.3MiniMax-M2.7sambanovauntestedCARD—✗✗✗
0.2google/gemma-4-31b-it:freeopenrouteryes (past)DOWN—·✓✗
0.1bigcode/starcoder2-15bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.3MiniMax-M3sambanovauntestedCARD—✗✗✗
0.8inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓✓✓
0.1databricks/dbrx-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.4gemma-4-31B-itsambanovauntestedCARD—✗✗✗
0.9inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-sante:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓·✓
0.2deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.3gpt-oss-120bsambanovauntestedCARD—✗✗✗
1.0inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓·✓
0.9liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓✓✓
0.2google/codegemma-1.1-7bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
20.6nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini:freeopenrouteryes (past)DOWN—···
0.1google/codegemma-7bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
20.6nex-agi/nex-n2.5-pro:freeopenrouteryes (past)DOWN—···
0.1google/deplotnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.3nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:freeopenrouteruntestedDOWN—···
0.4google/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-itnvidiayesFREE3/5✓··
1.1nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5···
0.2google/gemma-2bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.5nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:freeopenrouteryes (past)DOWN—✓··
0.2google/gemma-3-12b-itnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety:freeopenrouteruntestedDOWN—✗··
0.2google/gemma-3-4b-itnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
5.5nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓··
1.3google/gemma-4-31b-itnvidiayesFREE3/5✓··
11.2openrouter/freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓··
0.1google/recurrentgemma-2bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.4poolside/laguna-s-2.1:freeopenrouteryes (past)DOWN—✓··
0.2ibm/granite-3.0-3b-a800m-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.6poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓··
0.2ibm/granite-3.0-8b-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.2qwen/qwen3.8-27b:freeopenrouteryes (past)DOWN—···
0.1ibm/granite-34b-code-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1z-ai/glm-5.2:freeopenrouteruntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1ibm/granite-8b-code-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1meta/codellama-70bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.8meta/llama-3.2-11b-vision-instructnvidiayesFREE3/5✓··
60.1meta/llama-3.2-90b-vision-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1meta/llama2-70bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
2.8meta/muse-glimmer-30bnvidiayesFREE3/5✓··
0.1microsoft/kosmos-2nvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.2microsoft/phi-3-vision-128k-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1microsoft/phi-3.5-moe-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1mistralai/codestral-22b-instruct-v0.1nvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1mistralai/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3nvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1mistralai/mistral-large-2-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1mistralai/mistral-largenvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
2.0mistralai/mistral-nemotronnvidiayes (past)DOWN—✗··
0.2mistralai/mixtral-8x22b-v0.1nvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.2moonshotai/kimi-k2.6nvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
60.1moonshotai/kimi-k3nvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1nv-mistralai/mistral-nemo-12b-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.3nvidia/ai-synthetic-video-detectornvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.2nvidia/cosmos-reason2-8bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.8nvidia/ising-calibration-1.5-31bnvidiatext-onlyFREE—✗··
0.2nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-51b-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-70b-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b-v1nvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1nvidia/llama3-chatqa-1.5-70bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.2nvidia/mistral-nemo-minitron-8b-8k-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.2nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoningnvidiayes (past)DOWN—✗··
0.4nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12bnvidiayes (past)DOWN—✗··
6.1nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55bnvidiayesFREE3/5✗··
0.2nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safetynvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
60.0nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3bnvidiayes (past)DOWN—✗··
0.2nvidia/nemotron-4-340b-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.2nvidia/nemotron-4-340b-rewardnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.2nvidia/nemotron-nano-3-30b-a3bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.3nvidia/nemotron-parse-2.0nvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.3nvidia/nemotron-parsenvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1nvidia/neva-22bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1nvidia/nvclipnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.2nvidia/riva-translate-4b-instruct-v1.1nvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
0.1nvidia/riva-translate-4b-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··

22 made a tool call, 1 answered in text only, of 99 discovered. A fail only means the endpoint wasn't free to use right then — it demanded a payment method, or it was down or erroring — so tool-call ability stayed untested, not disproven; a model that passed in a past report keeps its yes. Numbers are single-run measurements from one location — your mileage will vary. Prose by fallback (no model produced usable prose); the table is measured, never model-written. Reproduce with ./free-scan.sh from the engine repo.