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One row on the list serves gemma-4-26b-a4b free: OpenRouter (free models). It asks for no card. The provider’s last scheduled probe was on 2026-10-26; its offer is rechecked twice a week. It measures notable: in the upper half of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, below its strong bar.
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🧭 Aggregators (one key, many providers) · no card · last probe 2026-10-26 · listed since 2026-09-25
One API key for a rotating set of :free model variants, open-weight and stealth models among them
1,000 requests/day per account (after 10 credits purchased all-time)
OpenRouter’s FAQ says its free models “have low rate limits” and “are usually not suitable for production use”, and its limits page warns that a negative credit balance can produce errors “including for free models” and that a 429 can come from the upstream provider rather than the platform (read 2026-09-27). The docs define the daily counter as “Free-model requests recorded so far in the current UTC day”. The higher daily ceiling is granted “starting one credit below the table’s threshold” to absorb rounding and top-up fees.
https://openrouter.ai/api/v1OPENROUTER_API_KEY — get one at https://openrouter.ai/settings/keysANTHROPIC_BASE_URL): https://openrouter.ai/apiconfigs/codex/openrouter-free.config.toml — copy it to ~/.codex/, then codex -p openrouter-free -m google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free; set up on the lane by the vendor’s own page, https://openrouter.ai/docs/cookbook/coding-agents/codex-cli: “Configure Codex for OpenRouter”google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:freegemma-4-31b — free at OpenRouter (free models), Requesty, NVIDIA NIM (build.nvidia.com), Regolo AI and OpperGenerated from registry.yaml on 2026-10-27 and re-verified twice a week; every free model on the list is at https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/models/, and the full list, the Atom feed and the machinery at https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding.