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Temporary free access from labs and providers. Strict $0 promos and limited-time giveaways.

• Hot deal · ends 2026-10-15

  StepFun Step 5 Preview

  One-week $0 window for StepFun's 600B MoE (27B active, 1M context) inside coding agents: step-5-preview-free on OpenCode Zen, stepfun/step-5-preview-free in Kilo Code, cline-free/step-5-preview in Cline (IDE and CLI only, per-account quota). End date is approximate — the Nous Portal window closes 2026-10-15, the day StepFun plans to release the weights. The regular API costs $1.00/$2.70 per 1M tokens.

  Provider: opencode · kilo · cline · 2026-10-08 → 2026-10-15

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• Laya (decision model)

  Not a chat model: Laya answers yes/no, choice and score questions about a text or JSON state with probabilities — useful for routing, triage and guardrail checks. Both convaiinnovations/laya and convaiinnovations/laya-free are free through 2026-10-31; after that the -free id stops and the standard id is billed. Apache-2.0 weights are on Hugging Face.

  Provider: vercel ai gateway · boundless · 2026-10-01 → 2026-10-31

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• Hot deal · ends 2026-10-13

  Ling 3.1 Flash

  InclusionAI's 560B MoE (25B active, 262K context) is free on Vercel AI Gateway, and Cline uses it as the default Vercel model. Pick inclusionai/ling-3.1-flash-free to make sure you are never billed — it stops serving after 2026-10-13, while inclusionai/ling-3.1-flash starts charging.

  Provider: cline · vercel ai gateway · 2026-09-30 → 2026-10-13

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• Poolside Laguna S 2.1 / XS 2.1

  poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free and poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free are $0 on OpenRouter until 2026-10-31 under the usual :free caps (20 RPM, 50 requests/day, 1,000/day after $10 in credits). Coding-focused models with 262K context.

  Provider: openrouter · 2026-09-06 → 2026-10-31

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