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siteEvery service name in the ledger is now clickable and opens its own history page (e.g. /service/chatgpt) showing the current free tier plus every recorded change with before/after values. Raw change data: changes.json.
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siteThe ledger is now machine-readable: free-tiers.json and llms.txt, licensed CC BY 4.0 (reuse freely, link back). Every service row also has a permanent anchor link.
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verifiedFull board verified: every entry in the ledger now carries a hand-checked date. Highlights below.
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verifiedOpenAI quietly replaced its dead $5 welcome credit with something better: opt in to sharing your API data and you get a daily free-token allowance, up to ~1M tokens/day on frontier models and ~10M/day on mini models. Anthropic's API offers a one-time $5 trial credit (SMS verification required).
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killedGoogle ImageFX and Whisk were shut down in April 2026 and folded into Google Flow, which keeps a free tier with monthly credits (Imagen images plus limited Veo video).
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changedWindsurf overhauled pricing in March 2026: credits replaced by daily/weekly quotas. Free plan keeps unlimited Tab autocomplete with ~25 agent actions/month.
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changedGemini's free app plan moved from daily message caps to compute-based limits refreshing every 5 hours with a weekly ceiling. Free tier includes 5 Deep Research uses/month.
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verifiedAlso verified today: Grok free ~10 msgs/2h (needs 7-day-old X account with verified phone), Le Chat ~25 msgs/day, GitHub Models 50 req/day on high-tier models, Cohere 1,000 calls/month, Gemini CLI 1,000 requests/day, Kling 66 credits/day, Luma ~1 free clip/day, Runway 125 one-time credits.
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changedGroq free tier confirmed cut: most models now allow 1,000 requests/day, down from 14,400 earlier this year. Token caps unchanged (~100K/day on llama-3.3-70b).
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changedChatGPT Free: the fast window is ~10 messages per 5 hours, and opting out of personalized ads can reduce it to as low as ~5 messages per 3 hours.
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verifiedOpenRouter free models: 200 requests/day by default; a one-time purchase of $10 in credits lifts the cap to 1,000 requests/day permanently.
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verifiedGemini API free tier: enabling billing on a Google Cloud project removes the free tier on that project entirely. Keep free keys on a project with no billing attached.
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verifiedGitHub Copilot Free: 2,000 completions and 50 chat/agent requests per month, auto model selection only.
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verifiedMistral Experiment tier: roughly 1B tokens/month free, but you must opt in to data training. Cerebras: ~1M tokens/day, no card required.
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launchedThe ledger goes live: 33 free tiers tracked across chat, APIs, coding, image, audio and video. 15 verified by hand today; the rest are queued for the next sweep.