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The authoritative current FAQ says the Free Tier is paused; live aliases containing :free do not override that statement.

Ai2 directs API users to external paid routes; its playground is not a documented general developer API.

Publishes open models and resources, but no stable public developer inference endpoint with current auth and quotas.

Current models have positive prices and credits must be prepaid; Start Free is signup wording, not a compute allowance.

Slots are full and the agreement ended 2026-04-30; historical allowance was 100 accelerator-card hours, 500 GB, and 10 million model tokens.

No current provider-funded inference offer was verified.

Current plans start at $19/month and no direct hosted inference API, public model catalog, or automatic free developer quota is published; an OpenRouter provider slug is not a direct offer.

Non-SwissAI use consumes project credits converted from allocated node-hours at a published CHF rate.

Public alpha access is evaluation-only, but every displayed model has a positive token price.

The current public catalog has positive per-token or per-execution prices and no permanent recurring free quota.

A separate prepaid inference balance is mandatory; the free router preview does not make routed model inference free.

The live production service documents positive per-token prices, prepaid balance top-ups, and a USD 5 minimum top-up; no automatic free API allowance was found. A separate limited free web chat does not qualify as API inference.

Application and allocation infrastructure is not an automatic shared developer inference entitlement.

Sandbox coupons cannot fund API or Workflow calls; only the application-based Builder Grant is potentially free.

A public chat and a first-party/partner case study claim an API platform, but no stable developer base URL, authentication flow, free limits, or API reference could be verified.

The lowest current plan is paid and monthly credits belong to paid subscriptions.

Current billing docs say new accounts receive no automatic credit; billing address and card are required for an API key and at least $5 must be added before ordinary inference. The Free label is a rate-limit tier, not zero-price inference.

The CLI/router aggregates upstream services such as NVIDIA and OpenRouter using user-supplied credentials; it does not fund hosted inference.

Users self-host the router and supply upstream provider keys.

Current docs describe promotional credits from promo codes or discretionary promotions but promise no automatic signup amount; ordinary access requires purchased credit with a $10 minimum.

No current provider-funded inference offer was verified.

Many Spaces expose callable Gradio endpoints, but there is no shared quota, catalog guarantee, authentication policy, or availability commitment; individual Spaces may sleep or disappear.

The free plan covers gateway requests and tracing; all live model entries have positive inference prices.

The $0 plan explicitly has no API access; API access starts on a paid plan.

Research allocations exist, but the July 2026 update says the shared inference service is still being prepared.

Current AI Studio requires purchased credits and has no verified automatic free allowance.

Lambda sunset the hosted API after 2025-09-25; the current alternative is paid GPU infrastructure.

Public chat and downloadable open weights exist, but no documented general developer inference API was found.

Current free offer covers downloadable/on-device models and tooling, not operator-funded remote inference.

Publishes weights, corpora, and tooling rather than a stable hosted inference API.

The $0 gateway subscription still requires account top-up and charges model list prices; the gateway fee alone is free.

No current provider-funded inference offer was verified.

Current docs and terms describe prepaid positive-price API usage with no quantified automatic free allowance.

The .com service is a downloadable/configurable BYOK gateway and is unrelated to the possibly qualifying hosted nexusrouter.net record.

Current onboarding requires adding at least $5 credit. A statement that early users may receive unspecified promotional offers is neither automatic nor a quantified current free allowance.

Hosted inference uses x402 or OPG payment rather than a free tier.

Free compute and model-development resources exist, but no stable operator-hosted general inference base, auth, quota, and service commitment were found.

A live call returned MissingBlocksError because no peers held the required model blocks.

Starter credit followed by positive per-token wallet billing.

No current provider-funded inference offer was verified.

Normal inference requires a positive balance; selective startup credits are recorded separately as conditional.

The model weights may be free, but remote hosted compute is not being provided.

The public alpha exposes localhost:8800 after users install a daemon and depends on peers; it still has no stable operator-hosted public gateway or funded catalog.

Official billing docs say there are no free trials; API access requires at least a $5 credit purchase.

The direct Jev API is waitlist-gated and publishes positive token pricing with no automatic free allocation. OpenCode Zen's temporary jev-1.13-free route is recorded under OpenCode rather than as a TypeSafe direct free offer.

Current terms describe paid Wafer Pass and inference; third-party claims of a free route lack first-party support.

First-party pages explicitly advertise a completely free community pool and document api.webinfer.dev, but that hostname and other candidate gateways did not resolve on 2026-08-29; callability, catalog, signup, and limits remain unverified.