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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.

No current provider-funded inference offer was verified.

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.

OpenAI-compatible marketing and a waitlist exist, but no validated free quota or public production endpoint.

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

Free weights and a playground are available, but no stable documented public inference API with quotas and auth.

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

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

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.

The hosted API is winding down and the current alternative is paid GPU instances.

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.

Free-forever language refers to self-hosted MAX; hosted shared endpoints have positive token prices.

No current provider-funded inference offer was verified.

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

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

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.

Peer-to-peer software without an operator-hosted public endpoint.

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

API calls require spendable DIEM, bundled, or USD balance; the free web-chat plan does not fund API inference.

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

No stable gateway base URL, quota, catalog endpoint, signup flow, or complete terms are published.