awesome-free-ai-coding

Poolside Platform

🔌 LLM APIs with free tier · no card · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-09-17 · poolside.ai · back to the whole list

What you get

Free self-serve developer access to the Laguna coding models, direct from the vendor whose models this list already carries second-hand through OpenRouter and Kilo Gateway

Free models

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.

Limits, in the vendor’s words

Poolside publishes none. Its quickstart offers “fast, free developer access” as the recommended of four access paths, with the organisation’s own deployment a separate enterprise one, but poolside.ai/pricing is a 404 and no page on the docs site states a quota, a rate limit or a duration. Treat it as unquantified rather than as generous

Connect

Base URL: https://inference.poolside.ai/v1
Key: POOLSIDE_API_KEY — get one at https://platform.poolside.ai
Callable ids: poolside/laguna-s-2.1, poolside/laguna-xs-2.1
Note: the two ids come from docs.poolside.ai/api/overview, a different page from the one the probe reads — the vendor documents no free-versus-paid split for Platform keys anywhere, so this row claims no free models and names none in its column. The key is created by signing in to Poolside Platform, whose dashboard sits behind a Cloudflare check no probe can read

Evidence

Probe: the page at https://docs.poolside.ai/get-started/quickstart, anchored on Choose this option for fast, free developer access, fastest way to get a free Poolside API key
Source: https://docs.poolside.ai/get-started/quickstart
Source: https://docs.poolside.ai/api/overview

History

2026-08-17 — Added to the list: Free self-serve developer access to the Laguna coding models, direct from the vendor whose models this list already carries second-hand through OpenRouter and Kilo Gateway

Generated 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.

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