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Where laguna-s-2.1 is free

5 rows on the list serve laguna-s-2.1 free: OpenRouter (free models), Kilo Code, AIHubMix (free models), Vercel AI Gateway and Nous Portal (Hermes Agent). Vercel AI Gateway asks for a card on file, the rest for none; Kilo Code answers with no account at all. The providers’ last scheduled probes were on 2026-10-26; their offers are rechecked twice a week.

Every free model · the whole list

Who serves it free

OpenRouter (free models)

🧭 Aggregators (one key, many providers) · no card · last probe 2026-10-26 · listed since 2026-09-24

One API key for a rotating set of :free model variants, open-weight and stealth models among them

Provider-wide limits

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.

Kilo Code

🤖 Coding agents & CLIs · no card · not offered in Iran, Syria, Cuba and 1 more place · last probe 2026-10-26 · listed since 2026-08-11

Open-source coding agent with an Auto Free mode and a keyless OpenAI-compatible gateway, alongside BYOK and local models

The free-model lineup rotates. Auto Free routes over the free models in the catalog’s autoRouting list. Other models use pay-as-you-go credits or a Kilo Pass subscription.

AIHubMix (free models)

🧭 Aggregators (one key, many providers) · no card · last probe 2026-10-26 · listed since 2026-09-24

OpenAI-compatible model gateway with zero-priced routes and an Anthropic-format endpoint for coding clients

Provider-wide limits

500/day coding routes: 5 requests/minute; 500 requests/day; 1,000,000 tokens/day per account per model; for coding-minimax-m3-free, glm-4.7-flash-free, coding-glm-4.7-free, k2.6-code-preview-free, coding-minimax-m2.1-free, kimi-for-coding-free, coding-glm-4.6-free, coding-minimax-m2-free

Other free routes: Usage allowance: amount not published (period not published); scope not published; for agents-a1-free, intern-s2-free, dots-3-note-preview-free, lfm-2.5-2.6b-free, nemotron-3.5-lightning-free, nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b-free, nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning-free, nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b-free, north-mini-code-free, laguna-xs-2.1-free, laguna-s-2.1-free, mimo-v2-flash-free

Gemma 4 free routes: Usage allowance: amount not published (period not published); scope not published; for gemma-4-26b-a4b-it-free, gemma-4-31b-it-free

Free IDs end in -free; paid twins are metered at list prices. The daily request and token caps are independent per account and model, rather than a pool to split across models. Published caps apply to their named model IDs; the remaining routes have no numerical budget published. Request limits and campaign durations apply to their named IDs. nemotron-3.5-content-safety-free is a classifier; the lfm-2.5-2.6b-free developer advises against agentic coding use.

Vercel AI Gateway

🧭 Aggregators (one key, many providers) · card required · last probe 2026-10-26 · listed since 2026-08-14

OpenAI-compatible model gateway with $5 of monthly credit after adding a payment method, plus separate zero-priced model routes

Free credit rate limits: Requests allowance: amount not published (period not published); scope not published (Limits apply per model.)

Beam launch offer: Usage allowance: amount not published (period not published); scope not published (The free route stops at the end of the launch offer; the end date and numerical allowance are unpublished.); for reflection/beam-free

A team must add a valid payment method before using free credit; otherwise requests return 403 customer_verification_required. Credit spends at provider list rates and excludes BYOK. Buying credit ends the monthly free credit. Zero-priced model routes remain a separate free mode and do not spend that balance. Use their exact free IDs: a similarly named route without its free suffix can be metered.

Nous Portal (Hermes Agent)

🧭 Aggregators (one key, many providers) · no card · last probe 2026-10-26 · listed since 2026-09-16

Nous Research’s inference portal with a $0 Free plan for :free models, accessible through an OpenAI-compatible API and Hermes Agent

Provider-wide limits

Choose the Free plan and use exact :free IDs; they are zero-priced, while metered routes are outside it. Use a portal key with ordinary API clients; the catalog itself is public. The Free plan publishes no card requirement or numerical rate cap.

Rows that listed it before

Generated 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.

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