anytimelime — the free AI field report

2026-09-24 · generated by a free model interviewing free models · anytimelime, formerly Project42 · get the engine →

What's free right now

41 free models made a real tool call today, out of 150 discovered, and the morning diff tells the story: typhoon-v2.5-30b-a3b-instruct, deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1, deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1, inclusionAI/Ling-flash-2.0, nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini:free, nex-agi/nex-n2.5-pro:free, poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free, moonshotai/kimi-k3, nvidia/ising-calibration-1.5-31b joined the tool-call club today, and MiniMax-M2.7-Official, agnes-3.0-flash, aion-labs/aion-3.0, openai/gpt-oss-120b:free, qwen/qwen3.5-4b-free, minimax/minimax-m3:free, openai-fast, qwen3.8-27b, nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free, nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free, poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free, nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b lost theirs since the 2026-09-23 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
0.2@cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-llama-8bCloudflare Workers AIuntestedDOWN—···
—Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507Hugging Face InferenceuntestedDOWN—···
—Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507Hugging Face InferenceuntestedDOWN—···
0.4Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22BSiliconFlowuntestedDOWN—···
0.9Sarvam-MSarvam AIuntestedDOWN—···
0.2deepseek-r1:latestZydit AIuntestedDOWN—···
1.5deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-freeOrcarouteruntestedDOWN—···
0.3gemini-2.5-flash-liteGoogle AI Studio (Gemini OpenAI-compat)untestedDOWN—···
0.3mistralai/Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct-2506MegaNova AIuntestedDOWN—···
—qwen-plusAlibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope intl)untestedDOWN—···
0.8qwen/qwen3.7-flash:freeBazaarLinkuntestedDOWN—···
0.8typhoon-v2.5-30b-a3b-instructTyphoon (SCB 10X)yesFREE3/5···
—ZhipuAI/GLM-4.6ModelScope API-InferenceuntestedDOWN—···
2.8deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1SiliconFlowyesFREE3/5···
2.8deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1SiliconFlowyesFREE3/5···
0.3mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506Mistral AIuntestedDOWN—···
0.1@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fastCloudflare Workers AIuntestedDOWN—···
0.6MiniMax-M2.5SambaNova ClouduntestedDOWN—···
—deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-ProModelScope API-InferenceuntestedDOWN—···
0.1zai-org/GLM-4.7SiliconFlowuntestedDOWN—···
1.4inclusionAI/Ling-flash-2.0SiliconFlowyesFREE3/5···
0.2@cf/openai/gpt-oss-120bCloudflare Workers AIuntestedDOWN—···
0.3Qwen3-235BSambaNova ClouduntestedDOWN—···
0.2openai/gpt-oss-120bSiliconFlowuntestedDOWN—···
0.1@cf/zai-org/glm-4.7-flashCloudflare Workers AIuntestedDOWN—···
0.1zai-org/GLM-4.7SiliconFlowuntestedDOWN—···
0.301-ai/yi-largenvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.3DeepSeek-V3.1SambaNova ClouduntestedCARD—✗✗✗
0.3DeepSeek-V3.2sambanovauntestedCARD—✗✗✗
0.6MiniMax-M2.7-OfficialPooled AIyes (past)DOWN—✓··
7.5MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7Gonka BrokeryesFREE3/5✓✓·
0.4agnes-3.0-flashAgnes AIyes (past)DOWN—✓··
0.3aion-labs/aion-3.0AION Labsyes (past)DOWN—✓··
0.4aisingapore/Qwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B-ITSEA-LION (AI Singapore)yes (past)DOWN—✗✗·
0.6codestral-latestMistral AIyes (past)DOWN—✗✗·
0.9cohere/north-mini-code:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓✓✓
3.4deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324HuggingFace Inference RouteryesFREE3/5✓··
0.1deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731NVIDIA NIMyes (past)DOWN—✗✗✗
9.4glm-4.5-flashZhipu AI (Z.ai)yesFREE3/5✓··
1.9glm-4.7-flashZhipu AI (Z.ai)yesFREE3/5···
1.9glm-4.7-flashZhipu AI (Z.ai)yesFREE3/5···
0.4gpt-oss-120bSambaNova ClouduntestedCARD—✗✗✗
0.5gpt-oss-20bOVHcloud AI EndpointsuntestedDOWN—···
0.2gpt-oss:120bOllama ClouduntestedDOWN—✗··
0.9inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓✓✓
0.9inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓✓✓
2.3intern-latestIntern AIyesFREE3/5✓··
0.5ling-3.0-flash-fin:freeNaga AIuntestedDOWN—···
0.2minimax-m2.7:freeRouteway AIuntestedDOWN—···
17.5minimax/minimax-m3:freexKiro AIyes (past)DOWN—✓··
1.5north-mini-codeTokenReplyyesFREE3/5✓✓·
0.2openai-fastKeylessAIuntestedDOWN—···
0.2openai-fastKeylessAIuntestedDOWN—···
0.2openai/gpt-oss-120b:freeFastRouteryes (past)DOWN—✓··
0.3openaiPollinationsyesFREE3/5✓✓·
0.4qwen/qwen3.5-4b-freeMixlayeryes (past)DOWN—✓··
1.5qwen3-8bFree.aiyesFREE3/5✓··
0.3qwen3.8-27bYolo-Autoyes (past)DOWN—✓✗·
11.8tokeness/freeTokenessyesFREE3/5✓✗·
0.2adept/fuyu-8bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.1@cf/meta/llama-3.1-8b-instructCloudflare Workers AIuntestedDOWN—···
0.3Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-InstructSambaNova ClouduntestedCARD—✗✗✗
0.3MiniMax-M2.7sambanovauntestedCARD—✗✗✗
0.5deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731Gonka Brokeryes (past)DOWN—✗✗·
1.7dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓✓✓
0.2gemini-2.5-flashGoogle AI Studio (Gemini OpenAI-compat)untestedDOWN—···
1.9glm-4.7-flashZhipu AI (Z.ai)yesFREE3/5···
0.5gpt-oss-20bOVHcloud AI EndpointsuntestedDOWN—···
1.5nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:freeNaga AIyesFREE3/5✓··
0.3openaiPollinationsyesFREE3/5✓✓·
0.2ai21labs/jamba-1.5-large-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.3MiniMax-M3sambanovauntestedCARD—✗✗✗
12.1zai-org/GLM-5.3-FlashGonka BrokeryesFREE3/5✓✓·
0.3google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:freeopenrouteryes (past)DOWN—✗·✗
0.1aisingapore/sea-lion-7b-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.3gemma-4-31B-itsambanovauntestedCARD—✗✗✗
0.2google/gemma-4-31b-it:freeopenrouteryes (past)DOWN—✗·✗
0.1bigcode/starcoder2-15bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.4gpt-oss-120bSambaNova ClouduntestedCARD—✗✗✗
0.9inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓✓✓
0.2databricks/dbrx-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
1.0inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-sante:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓✓✓
0.1deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.6liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓✓✓
60.1deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flashnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗··
1.5nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✗·✓
0.2google/codegemma-1.1-7bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
5.1nex-agi/nex-n2.5-pro:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✗·✗
0.2google/codegemma-7bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.3nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:freeopenrouteryes (past)DOWN—✓·✗
0.1google/deplotnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.5nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:freeopenrouteryes (past)DOWN—✓·✓
1.4google/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-itnvidiayesFREE3/5✓✓✓
1.1nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓✓✓
0.2google/gemma-2bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.2nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety:freeopenrouteruntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.2google/gemma-3-12b-itnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
30.2nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓✓✓
0.2google/gemma-3-4b-itnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
1.8openrouter/freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓✓✓
4.3google/gemma-4-31b-itnvidiayesFREE3/5✓✓✓
0.6poolside/laguna-s-2.1:freeopenrouteryes (past)DOWN—✓✓✗
0.1google/recurrentgemma-2bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
2.6poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:freeopenrouteryesFREE3/5✗✓✓
0.2ibm/granite-3.0-3b-a800m-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.2qwen/qwen3.8-27b:freeopenrouteryes (past)DOWN—✗·✓
0.2ibm/granite-3.0-8b-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
2.0stealth/space-bunny-alphaopenrouteryesFREE3/5✓··
0.2ibm/granite-34b-code-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.2z-ai/glm-5.2:freeopenrouteruntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.2ibm/granite-8b-code-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.2meta/codellama-70bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
1.7meta/llama-3.2-11b-vision-instructnvidiayesFREE3/5✓✓✓
60.1meta/llama-3.2-90b-vision-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.2meta/llama2-70bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
2.2meta/muse-glimmer-30bnvidiayesFREE3/5✓✓✓
0.1microsoft/kosmos-2nvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.1microsoft/phi-3-vision-128k-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.1microsoft/phi-3.5-moe-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.1mistralai/codestral-22b-instruct-v0.1nvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.2mistralai/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.3nvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.1mistralai/mistral-large-2-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.2mistralai/mistral-largenvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
60.1mistralai/mistral-nemotronnvidiayes (past)DOWN—✗✗✓
0.1mistralai/mixtral-8x22b-v0.1nvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.2moonshotai/kimi-k2.6nvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
47.9moonshotai/kimi-k3nvidiayesFREE3/5✗✗✗
0.2nv-mistralai/mistral-nemo-12b-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.3nvidia/ai-synthetic-video-detectornvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.2nvidia/cosmos-reason2-8bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
2.2nvidia/ising-calibration-1.5-31bnvidiayesFREE3/5✗✗✓
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—✗✗✗
0.1nvidia/mistral-nemo-minitron-8b-8k-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
3.8nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoningnvidiayesFREE3/5✓✗✗
0.4nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12bnvidiayes (past)DOWN—✓✗✓
0.9nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55bnvidiayesFREE3/5✓✗✓
60.1nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safetynvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
2.6nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3bnvidiayesFREE3/5✓✗✓
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—✗✗✗
0.2nvidia/neva-22bnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.1nvidia/nvclipnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
1.9nvidia/riva-translate-4b-instruct-v1.1nvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗
0.2nvidia/riva-translate-4b-instructnvidiauntestedDOWN—✗✗✗

41 made a tool call, 0 answered in text only, of 150 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.