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Assess peak-minute and daily usage separately. All account usage shares the allowance; results are estimates against the listed limits, not an access guarantee.

Free does not mean unlimited. No automatic paid fallback. Unknown countries, card requirements or quotas are not treated as supported, card-free or unlimited.
Groq · Limited free tier

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Free plan · organization-wide

Within listed limits
30 requests / minutePlanned: 1 · Remaining: 29
1000 requests / dayPlanned: 100 · Remaining: 900
8000 tokens / minutePlanned: 1500 · Remaining: 6500
200000 tokens / dayPlanned: 150000 · Remaining: 50000

Daily request ceiling for this workload: 133

Published base limits; account-specific input/output limits and current console limits take precedence. Cached tokens are excluded. Other organization usage consumes the same quota.

Expiry
Expiry not specified in this record; check source
Card / countries
unknown / Eligibility must be checked at source
After the allowance
Requests stop or require a separately selected paid plan; no automatic paid fallback on this website.
Evidence
Reviewed source · 2026-10-25
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Groq · Limited free tier

openai/gpt-oss-120b

Free plan · organization-wide

Within listed limits
30 requests / minutePlanned: 1 · Remaining: 29
1000 requests / dayPlanned: 100 · Remaining: 900
8000 tokens / minutePlanned: 1500 · Remaining: 6500
200000 tokens / dayPlanned: 150000 · Remaining: 50000

Daily request ceiling for this workload: 133

Published base limits; account-specific input/output limits and current console limits take precedence. Cached tokens are excluded. Other organization usage consumes the same quota.

Expiry
Expiry not specified in this record; check source
Card / countries
unknown / Eligibility must be checked at source
After the allowance
Requests stop or require a separately selected paid plan; no automatic paid fallback on this website.
Evidence
Reviewed source · 2026-10-25
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Cloudflare Workers AI · Limited free tier

@cf/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it

Workers Free · shared daily allocation

Within listed limits
10000 neurons / dayPlanned: 2272.75 · Remaining: 7727.25

Daily request ceiling for this workload: 439

Neurons reset at 00:00 UTC and are shared across the account. Uses published uncached input/output neuron conversion for this exact model; other platform rate limits still apply.

Expiry
Expiry not specified in this record; check source
Card / countries
unknown / Eligibility must be checked at source
After the allowance
Requests stop or require a separately selected paid plan; no automatic paid fallback on this website.
Evidence
Reviewed source · 2026-10-25
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Google AI Studio · Limited free tier

Select an eligible model in AI Studio

Free tier

Coverage unknown

Free access is model-dependent. Exact account quotas require AI Studio; unknown quotas are not unlimited. Free-tier content may be used to improve products.

Expiry
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Card / countries
unknown / Eligibility must be checked at source
After the allowance
Requests stop or require a separately selected paid plan; no automatic paid fallback on this website.
Evidence
Reviewed source · 2026-10-25
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OpenRouter · Limited free tier

:free model variants

Account-specific credit-purchase tier

Coverage unknown

Request caps depend on all-time credits purchased. The public source did not expose a complete numeric table during verification; inspect the account limits before planning.

Expiry
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Card / countries
unknown / Eligibility must be checked at source
After the allowance
Requests stop or require a separately selected paid plan; no automatic paid fallback on this website.
Evidence
Reviewed source · 2026-10-25
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Mistral · Limited free tier

Eligible experimental models

Experimental tier

Coverage unknown

Current model, account quotas, card requirements and commercial terms need verification.

Expiry
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Card / countries
unknown / Eligibility must be checked at source
After the allowance
Requests stop or require a separately selected paid plan; no automatic paid fallback on this website.
Evidence
Pending review · 2026-10-25
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Z.ai · Limited free tier

Current free model list unverified

Account tier unverified

Coverage unknown

No assumption that paid model endpoints include free access.

Expiry
Expiry not specified in this record; check source
Card / countries
unknown / Eligibility must be checked at source
After the allowance
Requests stop or require a separately selected paid plan; no automatic paid fallback on this website.
Evidence
Pending review · 2026-10-25
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Requests per minute, tokens per day and model access are separate constraints. An unknown allowance is never treated as unlimited.

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