---
title: "Kilo AI Gateway free inference"
description: "22 model routes currently listed at zero price. See verified limits, model IDs, privacy terms, and primary sources for Kilo AI Gateway."
canonical_url: "https://freeinferencing.com/provider/kilo_ai_gateway/"
md_url: "https://freeinferencing.com/provider/kilo_ai_gateway.md"
last_updated: "2026-09-19"
---

# Kilo AI Gateway

> 22 model routes currently listed at zero price.

## Classification

- **Directory:** Current
- **Free access:** Free model routes
- **Status:** Available now
- **Confidence:** High
- **Payment card:** No
- **Account:** Not required
- **Equivalent paid value:** Not quantifiable
- **API endpoint:** `https://api.kilo.ai/api/gateway`

## Models mentioned

- `kilo-auto/free`
- `poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free`
- `nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free`
- `dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free`
- `nex-agi/nex-n2.5-pro:free`
- `inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-vl:free`
- `nex-agi/nex-n2.5-mini:free`
- `inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-sante:free`
- `inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-fin:free`
- `liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free`
- `nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free`
- `thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free`
- `poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free`
- `cohere/north-mini-code:free`
- `nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety:free`
- `nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free`
- `nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free`
- `qwen/qwen3.8-27b:free`
- `deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731:free`
- `z-ai/glm-5.2:free`
- `stepfun/step-3.7-flash:free`
- `openrouter/free`

## Limits and terms

```yaml
requests_per_hour_per_ip: 200
price_usd: 0
```

## What happens to your prompts?

**Not private.** The terms grant broad perpetual improvement rights and some routed models can require training permission.

Privacy is audited separately from price. Review the current governing terms before sending sensitive or regulated data.

## Data governance and agreements

```yaml
data_governance:
  review_status: reviewed
  plan_scope: Kilo Gateway and Kilo coding products; free and paid plans and the
    selected OpenRouter or downstream model route differ.
  prompt_retention: Kilo's terms grant a perpetual, irrevocable, sublicensable
    license to use Customer Data for service delivery and improvement. Paid
    plans advertise no-retention support, but that is not a default commitment
    for the free plan.
  response_retention: Outputs are Customer Data under the same broad terms; paid
    plans can support no-retention routing.
  ordinary_logging: Kilo collects account and technical data and states analytics
    telemetry excludes prompt or conversation content. Audit and usage logs may
    be available for governed plans.
  model_training: A user can decline to license data to an AI model for training,
    but then some models may be unavailable. Downstream model rules remain
    route-specific.
  product_improvement: The Customer Data license expressly permits Kilo to improve
    its service and other products, including development, diagnostics, and
    corrective work.
  human_or_operator_access: The terms authorize Kilo processing for development
    and diagnostics. OpenRouter and the selected downstream provider process
    prompt and conversation content for inference.
  subprocessors_and_routing: Prompts are routed through OpenRouter to the selected
    provider, including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI, Mistral, Meta, and
    others. Their terms and route controls also apply.
  deletion_controls: Users may delete the account from their profile or request
    deletion. Paid-plan no-retention support and provider-routing controls
    require configuration and do not erase previously retained data
    automatically.
  caveat: The free plan does not receive the paid no-retention statement, and
    Kilo's terms contain a broad perpetual data license. Model access may depend
    on accepting downstream training rights.
agreements:
  terms_of_service: https://kilo.ai/terms
  privacy_policy: https://kilo.ai/privacy
```

## Eligibility

```yaml
account_required: false
payment_method_required: false
```

## API compatibility and modalities

- **Compatibility:** OpenAI Compatible
- **Modalities:** Safety


## Before you build with Kilo AI Gateway

### Read the classification narrowly

This record describes the bounded offer supported by evidence on 2026-09-19; it does not guarantee permanence, production suitability, uptime, latency, model quality, or access from every account and region. “Free model routes” should be interpreted together with the Current directory placement, High confidence, No payment-card status, and the plan-specific sources below.

### Resolve the live model route

The snapshot records 22 model IDs. Match the exact ID against the provider's current catalog before using it in code because zero-price routes, aliases, context limits, and feature support can rotate while an older documentation page remains online.

### Match the quota to the workload shape

Translate the allowance into peak requests per minute, input and output tokens, concurrency, retries, and every daily or monthly ceiling that applies to the intended account. The first limit reached by the workload is the practical ceiling. A large token pool can still fail interactive bursts, and a high request limit can still fail long-context work. Include tool calls and retry traffic, test the largest realistic payload, and treat research, experimental, and community access as conditional on their eligibility and fair-use terms.

### Preserve billing and privacy boundaries

The recorded payment-card requirement is No, and account access is not required. Confirm both in the live signup flow, set provider-side budgets when charges are possible, and observe the balance or usage fields after a complete request. The prompt-handling classification is **Not private** because The terms grant broad perpetual improvement rights and some routed models can require training permission. Re-read the terms for the exact route and plan before sending sensitive, regulated, or proprietary content.

### Follow the evidence, then re-check it

This record links 9 first-party sources covering the offer, catalog, limits, pricing, terms, privacy, or adoption evidence available to the audit. Prefer the newest and most specific governing document or live catalog when sources disagree. A dated finding can become stale even when the page remains online, so retain the source and snapshot that supported the decision and submit a correction when a provider changes a material term.

### Plan fallback without policy drift

A fallback should preserve modality, context length, streaming, structured output, tools, safety controls, and data terms, not only API syntax. Decide which errors may retry, cap retry storms, and prevent an exhausted free route from silently switching to a billable model. Rotating aliases and free pools can change behavior without changing the endpoint, so retain the response model field and test at least one substitute route before the primary offer becomes unavailable.

### Monitor the offer as a dependency

Capture the model ID, response model, rate-limit headers, usage fields, latency, HTTP status, and provider request identifier. Watch authorization failure, quota exhaustion, catalog removal, policy revision, and balance movement as separate failure modes. Re-check the live catalog and governing sources on a schedule proportionate to the workload's importance, and keep an owner and exit path for any production dependency on volatile free capacity.

### Test one complete request before scaling

Start with the smallest permitted request using the exact credential, model ID, endpoint, region, and account type intended for deployment. Record the status, headers, usage fields, response model, latency, and dashboard balance movement. Then exercise an invalid model, quota exhaustion, or rate limit so failure is explicit and cannot silently switch to a paid route. Validate streaming, structured output, and tool calls separately because a free model can expose fewer features than its paid counterpart. Keep a budget ceiling outside the application whenever billing is possible, and do not send sensitive data until the observed route matches the reviewed agreement.

## Primary sources

- [Models and providers](https://kilo.ai/docs/gateway/models-and-providers): Official Docs
- [Usage and billing](https://kilo.ai/docs/gateway/usage-and-billing): Official Docs
- [Gateway models API](https://api.kilo.ai/api/gateway/models): Live Catalog
- [Kilo Terms of Service](https://kilo.ai/terms): Official Terms
- [Kilo Privacy Policy](https://kilo.ai/privacy): Official Privacy
- [Kilo Security and Compliance](https://kilo.ai/security-and-compliance): Official Security
- [Kilo home page citing 3M+ Kilo Coders and 40T+ tokens processed](https://kilo.ai/): Official Product
- [Kilo Code on the Visual Studio Marketplace](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=kilocode.Kilo-Code): Marketplace Stats
- [npm download stats for @kilocode/cli](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@kilocode/cli): Package Registry Stats

## Sitemap

See the full [semantic sitemap](/sitemap.md) for every page and markdown mirror.