US
Google
Website Models on Hugging Face
Tracked10models
Free now5models
Best free nowGemini 3.8 Flash
FTI20–25
5 sources, 5 independent of the vendor: centre 23; the sources disagree widely, so shown as a band.
- 22.9 AI Coding Daily LLM Coding Leaderboard: 47.09 · leaderboard
- Artificial Analysis · third party
- 39.9 Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI): 58 · third party
- 29.2 Epoch Capabilities Index (Epoch AI): 157.64 · third party
- 20 FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private (Epoch AI): 21.95 · third party
- 29.9 FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private (Epoch AI): 68.42 · third party
- 26 Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI): 31.67 · third party
- 22.3 GPQA Diamond: 94.44 · third party
- 34.7 Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI): 47 · third party
- 28.9 OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI): 98.89 · third party
- 17.7 SWE-bench Verified: 80 · third party
- 40 SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI): 69.7 · third party
Free channels3
Events19
Models 5 free now · 5 not
| Model | FT Intelligence | Free on | Context | Images | Events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #15–21Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle |
FTI20–255 sources, 5 independent of the vendor: centre 23; the sources disagree widely, so shown as a band.
|
1M | yes | 2 events | |
| #15–23Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle |
FTI19–245 sources, 5 independent of the vendor: centre 22; the sources disagree widely, so shown as a band.
|
1M | yes | 1 event | |
| #28Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle |
FTI164 sources, 4 independent of the vendor: centre 16.
|
1M | yes | 1 event | |
| #37–50Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle |
FTI9–142 sources, 2 independent of the vendor: centre 11; fewer than 3 sources or none independent, so shown as a band.
|
262K | yes | 6 events | |
| #45–60Gemma 4 31BGoogle |
FTI6–112 sources, 2 independent of the vendor: centre 9; fewer than 3 sources or none independent, so shown as a band.
|
256K | yes | 5 events | |
| Not free now · 5 tracked models with no free lane | |||||
| Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle |
FTI24–295 sources, 5 independent of the vendor: centre 26; the sources disagree widely, so shown as a band.
|
1M | yes | 3 events | |
| Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle |
FTI204 sources, 4 independent of the vendor: centre 20.
|
1M | yes | 2 events | |
| Gemini 2.0 Flash ExperimentalGoogle |
— | not checked | not checked | 2 events | |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental (03-25)Google |
— | not checked | not checked | 2 events | |
| Gemma 7B ITGoogle |
— | not checked | not checked | 2 events | |
Where they are free channels with a free lane for this maker's models
Free periods this maker's free lanes against today
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Kilo Code listed
What happened newest first · times link to the source
Tue, Nov 3today
google/gemma-4-31b-it:free is listed in the Kilo gateway catalogue at $0/$0 with no announced end (expiration_date null); 262K context via google-ai-studio, may train on prompts
Fri, Oct 2311 days ago
Google deprecated gemini-3.7-flash on 2026-10-08: it is no longer available to select in Google AI Studio and its requests auto-route to gemini-3.8-flash; at the 2026-10-23 catalogue recheck the id is absent from the free-tier endpoint table and from the pricing page, so the free tier is gone; second source is the 2026-10-08 entry in the AI Studio changelog; first seen 2026-08-14, last listed 2026-10-06 → end date Oct 8
Source: Google AI Studio docs
Google deprecated gemini-3.5-flash on 2026-10-08 in favour of gemini-3.6-flash: it is no longer available to select in Google AI Studio; at the 2026-10-23 catalogue recheck the id is absent from the free-tier endpoint table and from the pricing page, so the free tier is gone; second source is the 2026-10-08 entry in the AI Studio changelog; first seen in our records 2026-10-06, last listed the same day → end date Oct 8
Source: Google AI Studio docs
Sun, Oct 1123 days ago
endedDots3-Note Preview · Clineended North Mini Code · Clineended Ling 3.0 Flash Sante · Clineended Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B (reasoning) · Clineended Nemotron 3 Super · Clineended Nemotron 3 Ultra (550B-A55B) · Clineended Nemotron 3.5 Lightning · Clineended Laguna S 2.1 · Clineended Laguna XS 2.1 · Clineended LFM 2.5 2.6B · Clineended Apodex 1.1 Mini · Clineended Gemma 4 26B A4B · Clineended Gemma 4 31B · Clineended Inkling Small · Clineended Inkling · Clineended Kimi K3 · Clineended
Cline free promotion ended: API returns "Free model promotion ended"; models removed from Cline recommended models catalogue
Source: Cline API and CLI check
Wed, Oct 727 days ago
endedGemma 4 26B A4B · Kilo Codeended Hy3 · Kilo Codeended Hy3 preview · Kilo Codeended Ling-2.6-1T · Kilo Codeended Ling-2.6-flash · Kilo Codeended Ling-3.0-flash · Kilo Codeended Ling 3.0 Flash VL · Kilo Codeended MiniMax M2.7 · Kilo Codeended MiniMax M3 · Kilo Codeended Nex-N2-Pro · Kilo Codeended Nex-N2.5-Pro · Kilo Codeended Ring-2.6-1T · Kilo Codeended
Not in Kilo's free model list any more: the signed-in Kilo CLI (7.8.3) lists 14 free models, none of these; most remain only as paid models
Tue, Oct 628 days ago
listedApodex 1.1 Mini · Clineended Dots3-Note Preview · Clineended Gemma 4 26B A4B · Clineended Gemma 4 31B · Clineended Inkling Small · Clineended Inkling · Clineended
In the Cline CLI's free-model list; the test call returned no text or an upstream error (429). Qwen 3.8 27B (404) and Step 3.7 Flash (not found) are listed but gone
Source: Cline free models
listedGemini 3.8 Flash · Google AI Studiolisted Gemini 3.7 Flash · Google AI Studioended Gemini 3.6 Flash · Google AI Studiolisted Gemini 3.5 Flash · Google AI Studioended Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite · Google AI Studiolisted
Free of charge on Google AI Studio's free tier (standing); not called by us yet
Source: Google AI Studio docs
Thu, Sep 3
Mentioned as free on Google AI Studio on X (earliest mention found): Gemini 3.8 Flash
Source: X post by @toshinobu65
Fri, Aug 14
Mentioned as free on Google AI Studio on X (earliest mention found): Gemini 3.7 Flash
Source: X post by @toshinobu65
Tue, Apr 21
Added to Kilo's model catalogue as "Google: Gemma 4 26B A4B (free)" at $0 per token (Kilo's own record date)
Source: Kilo model page
Thu, Apr 9
Added to Cline's model list: Gemma 4 26B A4B, Gemma 4 31B
Source: Cline repo commit
Fri, Apr 3
Listed on OpenRouter as google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free at $0 (OpenRouter's catalogue record date)
Source: OpenRouter model page
Thu, Apr 2
Listed on OpenRouter as google/gemma-4-31b-it:free at $0 (OpenRouter's catalogue record date)
Source: OpenRouter model page
Sun, Feb 1
No longer listed in the OpenRouter catalogue capture of 2026-02-01T23:22Z; last priced $0 in the capture of 2026-01-28T22:57Z (approx end, an upper bound)
Thu, Jun 26, 2025
Google shut down gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 (end of free access is at or before this date)
Source: Gemini API changelog
Fri, Apr 4, 2025
Google changelog says gemini-2.5-pro-exp-03-25 stays usable on the free tier
Source: Gemini API changelog
Thu, Dec 12, 2024
OpenRouter announced free access to google/gemini-2.0-flash-exp:free (heavily rate limited)
Source: OpenRouter announcement
Thu, Sep 5, 2024
No longer listed in the OpenRouter catalogue capture of 2024-09-05T18:09Z; last priced $0 in the capture of 2024-06-26T13:26Z (approx end, an upper bound)
Tue, Mar 26, 2024
Priced $0 in the OpenRouter catalogue capture of 2024-03-26T21:18Z (approx start; not listed in the capture of 2023-12-26T21:28Z)