anytimelime — the free AI field report

2026-10-11 · generated by a free model interviewing free models · anytimelime, formerly Project42 · get the engine →

What's free in AI right now — 2026-10-11

The morning’s most interesting move is the quiet re‑entry of a handful of models that had been tooling around behind keys or sitting silently. kilo-auto/free slipped back into the free‑tool club after weeks of being a key‑required stub, now answering at 2.8 seconds with a proper tool call. poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free resurfaced as a fresh PASS (tool) after a brief absence, and nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free rejoined the rotation after a short blackout. Further up the stack, moonshotai/kimi-k3 and nvidia/ising‑calibration‑1.5‑31b keep their tool flags steady, while the once‑tool‑capable nvidia/nemotron‑3‑nano‑omni‑30b‑a3b‑reasoning:free has vanished again. All told, no model passed for the first time today, but the churn underlines how quickly the free tier can shift.

What it feels like to spin up a free model right now? The sub‑second lane remains the king: openai (0.4 s) and openai/gpt‑oss‑120b:free (0.8 s) are still the go‑to picks when latency matters. For deeper reasoning you have the heavy‑weight nvidia/nemotron‑3‑ultra‑550b‑a55b (20.3 s) and the brisk nvidia/nemotron‑3‑super‑120b‑a12b (1.0 s), both tool‑enabled. If you need something mid‑range, MiniMax‑M2.7‑Official (4.7 s) and aion‑labs/aion‑3.0‑mini (3.8 s) keep the tool flag lit without breaking the bank. The newly reclaimed kilo‑auto/free (2.8 s) adds a sturdy, if slower, workhorse to the mix, proving that even the stubborn can re‑join the free‑tool party.

For anyone building on free tiers, the takeaway is simple: treat the roster as a rotating relay. Sub‑second workers should be the primary lane, while minute‑range options become niche fallbacks. The surprise paywall on inclusionai/ling‑3.1‑flash (openrouter) shows that a “free” label can hide a credit‑wall, and models that answered tools yesterday can vanish without warning. Keep a queue moving, spin through the passing models before the next lock‑out hits, and never assume permanence for any free endpoint.

To run today’s verified set yourself, clone github.com/fusionpoweredsoftware/anytimelime, set LIME_KEY to your OpenRouter key, and execute ./lime.sh. It pulls the day’s roster and rotates across the passing models, keeping your key on your own machine.

Today's passing roster

google/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it — nvidia · 0.2s · agentic 3/5
nvidia/ising-calibration-1.5-31b — nvidia · 0.3s · agentic 3/5
openai — Pollinations · 0.4s · agentic 3/5
openai — Pollinations · 0.4s · agentic 3/5
poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free — openrouter · 0.5s · agentic 3/5
qwen3-8b — Free.ai · 0.6s · agentic 3/5
meta/llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct — nvidia · 0.6s · agentic 3/5
typhoon-v2.5-30b-a3b-instruct — Typhoon (SCB 10X) · 0.7s · agentic 3/5
openai/gpt-oss-120b:free — FastRouter · 0.8s · agentic 3/5
apodex/apodex-1.1-mini:free — openrouter · 0.9s · agentic 3/5
openai-fast — Pollinations · 0.9s · agentic 3/5
nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b — nvidia · 1.0s · agentic 3/5
agnes-3.0-flash — Agnes AI · 1.1s · agentic 3/5
nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free — openrouter · 1.2s · agentic 3/5
qwen/qwen3.5-4b-free — Mixlayer · 1.6s · agentic 3/5
cohere/north-mini-code:free — openrouter · 1.6s · agentic 3/5
openai/gpt-oss-20b:free — FastRouter · 1.6s · agentic 3/5
openrouter/free — openrouter · 1.6s · agentic 3/5
dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free — openrouter · 1.8s · agentic 3/5
liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free — openrouter · 1.8s · agentic 3/5
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free — openrouter · 1.8s · agentic 3/5
intern-s2-preview — Intern AI · 1.9s · agentic 3/5
intern-s2 — Intern AI (Shanghai AI Lab) · 2.3s · agentic 3/5
nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free — openrouter · 2.4s · agentic 3/5
kilo-auto/free — Kilo (Anaconda) · 2.8s · agentic 3/5
north-mini-code — TokenReply · 2.8s · agentic 3/5
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b — nvidia · 2.8s · agentic 3/5
zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash — Gonka Broker · 2.9s · agentic 3/5
MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7 — Gonka Broker · 3.3s · agentic 3/5
aion-labs/aion-3.0-mini — AION Labs · 3.8s · agentic 3/5
nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free — Naga AI · 3.9s · agentic 3/5
MiniMax-M2.7-Official — Pooled AI · 4.7s · agentic 3/5
nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free — openrouter · 9.2s · agentic 3/5
moonshotai/kimi-k3 — nvidia · 9.7s · agentic 3/5
meta/muse-glimmer-30b — nvidia · 9.9s · agentic 3/5
nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b — nvidia · 20.3s · 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	—	✗	✗	✗
4.7	`MiniMax-M2.7-Official`	Pooled AI	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
3.3	`MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.7`	Gonka Broker	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.2	`Qwen/Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct`	HuggingFace Router	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✓
1.1	`agnes-3.0-flash`	Agnes AI	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
3.8	`aion-labs/aion-3.0-mini`	AION Labs	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	·
0.4	`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	✓	✓	✓
0.3	`codestral-latest`	Mistral	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324`	HuggingFace Inference Router	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✓
0.6	`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	—	✗	✗	✗
60.1	`glm-4.7-flash`	Zhipu AI (Z.ai)	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✓	·	✓
0.9	`intern-latest`	Intern AI	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
2.3	`intern-s2`	Intern AI (Shanghai AI Lab)	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	·
2.8	`kilo-auto/free`	Kilo (Anaconda)	yes	FREE	3/5	✗	✓	·
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	—	✗	✗	✗
3.9	`nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free`	Naga AI	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
2.8	`north-mini-code`	TokenReply	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.9	`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	✓	✓	✓
1.6	`qwen/qwen3.5-4b-free`	Mixlayer	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	·	✓
0.6	`qwen3-8b`	Free.ai	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	·	✓
1.6	`qwen3.8-27b`	Yolo-Auto	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	·	✗
60.1	`tokeness/free`	Tokeness	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✓	·	✗
0.7	`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	—	✗	✗	✗
0.5	`deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731`	Gonka Broker	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`aion-labs/aion-3.0`	AION Labs	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✓
1.6	`cohere/north-mini-code:free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.3	`inclusionAI/Ling-flash-2.0`	SiliconFlow	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
60.1	`glm-4.7-flash`	Zhipu AI (Z.ai)	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✓	·	✓
1.9	`intern-s2-preview`	Intern AI	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.4	`openai`	Pollinations	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
1.6	`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	—	✗	✗	✗
2.9	`zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash`	Gonka Broker	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✗	✓
1.8	`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	—	✗	✗	✗
0.4	`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	—	✗	✓	✗
0.1	`databricks/dbrx-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.3	`gpt-oss-120b`	sambanova	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`inclusionai/ling-3.1-flash`	openrouter	untested	CARD	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`deepseek-ai/deepseek-coder-6.7b-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
1.8	`liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
60.1	`deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4.1-flash`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
9.2	`nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✗	✓
0.1	`google/codegemma-1.1-7b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
1.2	`nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.2	`google/codegemma-7b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
2.4	`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	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`google/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it`	nvidia	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
1.8	`nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✗	✓	✓
0.1	`google/gemma-2b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
1.6	`openrouter/free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.1	`google/gemma-3-12b-it`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free`	openrouter	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✓	✓	✓
0.1	`google/gemma-3-4b-it`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.5	`poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free`	openrouter	yes	FREE	3/5	✗	✗	✓
60.1	`google/gemma-4-31b-it`	nvidia	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✓
0.2	`google/recurrentgemma-2b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`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	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`ibm/granite-8b-code-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`meta/codellama-70b`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.6	`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	—	✗	✗	✗
9.9	`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	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`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	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`moonshotai/kimi-k2.6`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
9.7	`moonshotai/kimi-k3`	nvidia	yes	FREE	3/5	✗	✓	✓
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	—	✗	✗	✗
0.3	`nvidia/ising-calibration-1.5-31b`	nvidia	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
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	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning`	nvidia	yes (past)	DOWN	—	✓	✓	✗
1.0	`nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b`	nvidia	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
20.3	`nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b`	nvidia	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.2	`nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
2.8	`nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning-30b-a3b`	nvidia	yes	FREE	3/5	✓	✓	✓
0.2	`nvidia/nemotron-4-340b-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`nvidia/nemotron-4-340b-reward`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`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	—	✗	✗	✗
20.8	`nvidia/riva-translate-4b-instruct-v2`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.2	`nvidia/riva-translate-4b-instruct`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	✗
0.1	`nvidia/vila`	nvidia	untested	DOWN	—	✗	✗	·

36 made a tool call, 0 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 cohere/north-mini-code:free; the table is measured, never model-written. Reproduce with ./free-scan.sh from the engine repo.