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Cloud-hosted open models on a $0 plan that grants starter usage credits for a starter subset of the catalog
The page this row is verified against names no free model, so the column stays empty; callable ids, where the row has them, are under Connect.
The $0 plan is a wallet rather than a lane: “Starter usage credits included” and “Includes access to starter models”, with “Add credits to unlock all models” under them. Neither figure is published — no credit amount and no starter-model list — and every cloud model carries a per-million-token price on the same page (gpt-oss:20b $0.07 in / $0.30 out, kimi-k3 $3.00 / $15.00). Free gets 1 concurrent request against Pro’s 3, and the included usage “resets monthly from the date you signed up” without rolling over. The starter set can only be measured: on 2026-09-02 a key on the $0 plan got answers from gpt-oss:120b, gemma4:31b and nemotron-3-ultra and 402 Payment Required from minimax-m3, so the edge of the set is not the price — nemotron-3-ultra is inside at $0.10/$3.00, minimax-m3 outside at $0.60/$2.40. Read 2026-09-02
https://ollama.com/v1OLLAMA_CLOUD_API_KEY — get one at https://ollama.com/settings/keysgpt-oss:120b, gemma4:31b, nemotron-3-ultraStarter usage credits included, Includes access to starter models; ids checked in https://ollama.com/v1/models2026-08-17 — Free models changed: dropped gpt-oss, minimax-3, nemotron2026-07-20 — Free models changed: added minimax-3, nemotron; dropped qwen3-coder2026-07-19 — Added to the list: Cloud-hosted open models with free usage tierGenerated from registry.yaml on 2026-09-18 and re-verified twice a week; the full list, the Atom feed and the machinery are at https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding.