| OpenRouter · Mercury Decide | Start for free | inception/mercury-decide:free: free input and output. | 65,536-token context; 20 requests/minute and 50/day; 1,000/day after at least $10 in lifetime credit purchases. Requires an OpenRouter API key. |
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| OpenRouter · Span-01 Lite | Start for free | respan/span-01-lite:free: free input and output. | Text input; 20 requests/minute and 50/day; 1,000/day after at least $10 in lifetime credit purchases. Requires an OpenRouter API key. |
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| OpenCode · Jev 1.13 | Start for free | jev-1.13-free: free input and output. | Limited-time offer; end date and fixed allowance unpublished. Requires an OpenCode Console API key. |
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| Venice · Jev | Start for free | Free input during the current promotion and free output; new accounts receive a daily allowance and 500 welcome credits. | API beta; no credit card. 32K state plus longest question, 64K total input. Promotion end date and daily allowance size unpublished. |
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| Respan · Span-01 Lite | Start for free | span-01-free: free, with a daily cap resetting at 00:00 UTC. | Daily cap size unpublished; text input. |
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| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio · Decision Model | Start for free | decision-model-preview: temporarily free in Beijing and Singapore. | 65,536-token input; 1,200 requests and 2 million tokens per minute. End date unpublished. Requires a Model Studio account and a key for the selected region. |
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| Cloudflare Workers AI · Clef | Start for free | Direct Workers AI access includes 10,000 free Neurons per day, resetting at 00:00 UTC and shared across Workers AI models. | Clef-flash costs $0.038 per million input tokens with free output; paid access is available through Workers Paid or prepaid AI Gateway credits. |
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| Liquid AI · d1 | Trial credits | Each new organization receives $2 credit; d1 costs $0.02 per million input tokens with free output. | Granted per new organization; credit expiry unpublished. |
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| Nace · Drex | Trial credits | Receive $25 at signup, valid for 3 months; $5 monthly starting one month after signup, expiring at the next renewal. | Once per mailbox; disposable email excluded. Up to 3 eligible accounts per business domain per day. Without a card, calls stop when credit runs out. |
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| Liquid AI · Open d1 | Open weights & local use | LFM Open License: free commercial use below $10M annual revenue; research, education and nonprofit use is free. | Larger businesses need a commercial production license; supply your own compute. |
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| TypeSafe AI · Jev | Lower-cost APIs | Input costs $0.042 per million tokens. | Requires a TypeSafe API key. |
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| Respan · Span-01 | Lower-cost APIs | span-01-pro: $0.02 per million input tokens with free output. | Requires Respan credits; billed input includes the trace and all behavior definitions. |
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| Vercel AI Gateway | Lower-cost APIs | Jev: $0.042 per million input tokens; Liquid d1: $0.02 per million input tokens. Output is free for both. | Jev, Jev 1.14 and Liquid d1 require purchased AI Gateway credits; these models are excluded from the $5/month free tier. |
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| Respan · Span-02 | Lower-cost APIs | $0.01 per million input tokens; output and thought tokens are free. | Requires Respan credits; up to 4 images per request. |
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| Respan · Span-02 Open Weights | Open weights & local use | Free weights and inference engine under Apache-2.0. | Requires a Blackwell RTX 5090 or RTX PRO 6000; default settings use about 28 GB of GPU memory. Use the included Rust/CUDA engine and supply your own compute. |
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