anytimelime — the free AI field report

2026-10-10 · generated by a free model interviewing free models · anytimelime, formerly Project42 · get the engine →

What's free in AI right now — 2026-10-10

The free tier is currently playing musical chairs with itself. After weeks of kilo-auto/free sitting frozen behind a key requirement, it finally woke up and passed a tool call today at 20.6 seconds — a quiet victory for the stubborn. At the same time, tokeness/free stumbled back into life with a tool flag, though it still crawls along at 59 seconds. Meanwhile, inclusionai/ling-3.1-flash remains locked behind a credit wall on OpenRouter, a surprise "free-looking" model that refuses to lower its price. The overall picture is a revolving door: models that were tool-capable yesterday can vanish without warning, and those that seemed dormant can reappear with a new capability flag.

Spinning up a free model right now is surprisingly straightforward. Clone github.com/fusionpoweredsoftware/anytimelime, set LIME_KEY to your OpenRouter key, and run ./lime.sh. It pulls 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 site never asks for it.

Sub-second workers like openai/gpt-oss-120b:free (0.8s) and openai (0.4s) remain the primary lanes for latency-sensitive tasks. For deeper reasoning, nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free (0.1s) and nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free (1.9s) offer fast, tool-enabled reasoning. qwen/qwen3.5-4b-free (1.7s) and typhoon-v2.5-30b-a3b-instruct (0.7s) round out the quick picks. Slower but functional options include aglens-3.0-flash (1.1s), minimax/minimax-m3:free (3.0s), and the steady openrouter/free (1.3s). The full measured table appears below for anyone who wants the exhaustive list.

For builders, the takeaway is simple: treat the free pool as a rotating relay. A model that answered tools yesterday can be silent tomorrow, and a "free" label can be stripped without notice. Latency is the first guardrail — sub-second workers should be your primary lane, while minute-range options become niche fallbacks. The surprise paywall on inclusionai/ling-3.1-flash reminds us that some endpoints hide behind credit walls even when the probe says "yes." Keep a rotation queue in motion, spin through the passing models before the next lock-out hits, and never assume permanence for any free tier.

To run the day's verified set yourself, clone github.com/fusionpoweredsoftware/anytimelime, set LIME_KEY to an OpenRouter key, and execute ./lime.sh. It fetches today's roster and rotates across the passing models; your key never leaves your machine.

Today's passing roster

google/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it — nvidia · 0.3s · agentic 3/5
openai — Pollinations · 0.4s · agentic 3/5
openai — Pollinations · 0.4s · agentic 3/5
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7 — Gonka Broker · 0.8s · agentic 3/5
openai/gpt-oss-120b:free — FastRouter · 0.8s · agentic 3/5
typhoon-v2.5-30b-a3b-instruct — Typhoon (SCB 10X) · 0.8s · agentic 3/5
zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash — Gonka Broker · 0.8s · agentic 3/5
nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b — nvidia · 0.8s · agentic 3/5
apodex/apodex-1.1-mini:free — openrouter · 0.9s · agentic 3/5
openai-fast — Pollinations · 1.0s · agentic 3/5
qwen3-8b — Free.ai · 1.0s · agentic 3/5
cohere/north-mini-code:free — openrouter · 1.0s · agentic 3/5
openai/gpt-oss-20b:free — FastRouter · 1.0s · agentic 3/5
nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free — openrouter · 1.0s · agentic 3/5
nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free — openrouter · 1.3s · agentic 3/5
qwen/qwen3.5-4b-free — Mixlayer · 1.4s · agentic 3/5
liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free — openrouter · 1.4s · agentic 3/5
north-mini-code — TokenReply · 1.6s · agentic 3/5
intern-s2-preview — Intern AI · 1.9s · agentic 3/5
dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free — openrouter · 2.0s · agentic 3/5
poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free — openrouter · 2.0s · agentic 3/5
meta/muse-glimmer-30b — nvidia · 2.4s · agentic 3/5
nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning — nvidia · 2.4s · agentic 3/5
intern-s2 — Intern AI (Shanghai AI Lab) · 2.7s · agentic 3/5
nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free — Naga AI · 3.0s · agentic 3/5
nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free — openrouter · 3.0s · agentic 3/5
meta/llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct — nvidia · 3.3s · agentic 3/5
MiniMax-M2.7-Official — Pooled AI · 3.6s · agentic 3/5
aion-labs/aion-3.0-mini — AION Labs · 4.3s · agentic 3/5
openrouter/free — openrouter · 4.4s · agentic 3/5
nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b — nvidia · 5.8s · agentic 3/5
agnes-3.0-flash — Agnes AI · 6.5s · agentic 3/5
glm-4.7-flash — Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · 9.8s · agentic 3/5
glm-4.7-flash — Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · 9.8s · agentic 3/5
tokeness/free — Tokeness · 10.2s · agentic 3/5

The measured table

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latency	model	vendor	tool call	free now	agentic	yesterday	3 days ago	a week ago
0.2	`01-ai/yi-large`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.3	`DeepSeek-V3.1`	sambanova	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
3.6	`MiniMax-M2.7-Official`	Pooled AI	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.8	`MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7`	Gonka Broker	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.1	`Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct`	HuggingFace Router	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✓
6.5	`agnes-3.0-flash`	Agnes AI	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
4.3	`aion-labs/aion-3.0-mini`	AION Labs	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	·	·
0.3	`aisingapore/Qwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B-IT`	SEA-LION (AI Singapore)	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.9	`apodex/apodex-1.1-mini:free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.5	`codestral-latest`	Mistral	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324`	HuggingFace Inference Router	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✓
0.3	`deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1`	SiliconFlow	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731`	NVIDIA NIM	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.5	`glm-4.5-flash`	Zhipu AI (Z.ai)	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✓	✗
9.8	`glm-4.7-flash`	Zhipu AI (Z.ai)	yes	FREE	3/5	·	✗	✓
0.7	`intern-latest`	Intern AI	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
2.7	`intern-s2`	Intern AI (Shanghai AI Lab)	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	·	·
0.7	`kilo-auto/free`	Kilo (Anaconda)	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✓	✓	·
0.1	`meta-llama/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct`	Hugging Face Inference	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✓
0.4	`minimax/minimax-m3:free`	xKiro AI	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
3.0	`nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free`	Naga AI	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
1.6	`north-mini-code`	TokenReply	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
1.0	`openai-fast`	Pollinations	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	·	✓
0.8	`openai/gpt-oss-120b:free`	FastRouter	yes	FREE	3/5	·	✓	✓
0.4	`openai`	Pollinations	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
1.4	`qwen/qwen3.5-4b-free`	Mixlayer	yes	FREE	3/5	·	✓	✓
1.0	`qwen3-8b`	Free.ai	yes	FREE	3/5	·	✓	✓
0.9	`qwen3.8-27b`	Yolo-Auto	yes (past)	DOWN	—	·	✗	✗
10.2	`tokeness/free`	Tokeness	yes	FREE	3/5	·	✗	✓
0.8	`typhoon-v2.5-30b-a3b-instruct`	Typhoon (SCB 10X)	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.1	`adept/fuyu-8b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.3	`DeepSeek-V3.2`	sambanova	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.4	`deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731`	Gonka Broker	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
1.4	`aion-labs/aion-3.0`	AION Labs	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✓
1.0	`cohere/north-mini-code:free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.3	`inclusionAI/Ling-flash-2.0`	SiliconFlow	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
9.8	`glm-4.7-flash`	Zhipu AI (Z.ai)	yes	FREE	3/5	·	✗	✓
1.9	`intern-s2-preview`	Intern AI	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.4	`openai`	Pollinations	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
1.0	`openai/gpt-oss-20b:free`	FastRouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.1	`ai21labs/jamba-1.5-large-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.3	`Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct`	sambanova	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.8	`zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash`	Gonka Broker	yes	FREE	3/5	✗	✓	✓
2.0	`dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✗	✓
0.1	`aisingapore/sea-lion-7b-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.3	`MiniMax-M3`	sambanova	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.3	`google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free`	openrouter	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`bigcode/starcoder2-15b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.3	`gemma-4-31B-it`	sambanova	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`google/gemma-4-31b-it:free`	openrouter	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✓	✗	✗
0.2	`databricks/dbrx-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.3	`gpt-oss-120b`	sambanova	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`inclusionai/ling-3.1-flash`	openrouter	untested	CARD	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
1.4	`liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
60.0	`deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
3.0	`nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✗	✓	✓
0.1	`google/codegemma-1.1-7b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
1.3	`nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.1	`google/codegemma-7b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
1.0	`nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✗	✓
0.2	`google/deplot`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety:free`	openrouter	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.3	`google/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it`	nvidia	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✗
18.7	`nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free`	openrouter	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✓	✓	✓
0.2	`google/gemma-2b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
4.4	`openrouter/free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.2	`google/gemma-3-12b-it`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
2.0	`poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✗	✓
0.2	`google/gemma-3-4b-it`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.6	`poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free`	openrouter	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
60.1	`google/gemma-4-31b-it`	nvidia	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✓	✓
0.1	`google/recurrentgemma-2b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`ibm/granite-3.0-3b-a800m-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`ibm/granite-3.0-8b-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`ibm/granite-34b-code-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`ibm/granite-8b-code-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`meta/codellama-70b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
3.3	`meta/llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct`	nvidia	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
60.1	`meta/llama-3.2-90b-vision-instruct`	nvidia	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✓	✗	✓
0.1	`meta/llama2-70b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
2.4	`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	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`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-2-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`mistralai/mistral-large`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`mistralai/mixtral-8x22b-v0.1`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`moonshotai/kimi-k2.6`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
30.1	`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	nvidia	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✓	✗	✓
0.1	`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	—	✗	✗	✗
0.7	`nvidia/ising-calibration-1.5-31b`	nvidia	text-only	FREE	—	✓	✓	✓
0.1	`nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-51b-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-70b-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b-v1`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`nvidia/llama3-chatqa-1.5-70b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`nvidia/mistral-nemo-minitron-8b-8k-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
2.4	`nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning`	nvidia	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✗
0.8	`nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b`	nvidia	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
5.8	`nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b`	nvidia	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✗	✓
0.2	`nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
55.8	`nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b`	nvidia	text-only	FREE	—	✓	✓	✓
0.1	`nvidia/nemotron-4-340b-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`nvidia/nemotron-4-340b-reward`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`nvidia/nemotron-nano-3-30b-a3b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`nvidia/nemotron-parse-2.0`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`nvidia/nemotron-parse`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`nvidia/neva-22b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`nvidia/nvclip`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`nvidia/riva-translate-4b-instruct-v2`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`nvidia/riva-translate-4b-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`nvidia/vila`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	·

34 made a tool call, 2 answered in text only, of 116 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 liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free; the table is measured, never model-written. Reproduce with ./free-scan.sh from the engine repo.