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OpenCode has launched a mysterious stealth model, Pulse Alpha, offering 1M context, 131K max output, multimodal input, and three reasoning tiers — free for a limited time. Speculation points to GLM 5.5 or the Qwen series under the hood.

The free-for-dev project on GitHub compiles a wide range of services offering free tiers, covering dozens of categories including cloud, hosting, databases, CI/CD, and monitoring — a great resource for indie developers and students to bookmark.

Congress Trades 在 Product Hunt 上线，提供美国国会议员股票交易披露的免费分析工具，用户可查看议员排名并对比标普500衡量跟随交易的收益表现。

The author praises Mistral's revamped chat app 'Vibe Chat' (formerly Le Chat), highlighting its default Work/Cowork-like mode with native file creation and analysis, strong scheduled job integrations, a generous free tier, and superior conversational quality for everyday queries compared to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

MiniMax M3.1 Flash is now available for free on Vercel's AI Gateway through Oct 22, touted for improved agentic, coding, and cybersecurity performance.

Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince popped up in a Stack Exchange post from ten years ago, responding to users' doubts about the sustainability of the free plan with just "As long as I'm CEO," reaffirming that the free service will remain for the long haul.

The article covers Cloudflare's free AI infrastructure for individual developers, including Workers AI, OpenAI-compatible APIs, AI Gateway, AI Search, and Workers/R2 — along with their free-tier limits and usage restrictions. It also notes that some newer models now require a payment method on file.

作者分享了用 pi agent 通过 models.json 配置四个免费/低成本模型渠道（OpenRouter、百度灵积、阿里云 MaaS、opencode-go）的零成本 AI 编程方案，并给出了避免被静默回退到付费模型的配置踩坑经验，全文以推文串形式展开。

Starting October 9th, Google will limit free Gemini users to the Flash Lite model, paywalling Flash behind the $4.99/month AI Plus plan and restricting Gemini Pro and Deep Think to the $19.99 AI Pro or $99.99 Ultra subscriptions.

Cline announced it is pausing its free DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash promotion due to abnormally high abuse, and says it is investigating and working to mitigate the situation.

Free uncensored GLM 5.3 Flash is available now, with ~13M shared TPM and ~360 TPS peak throughput, usable for cybersecurity, coding, and general tasks.

Google is ending free access to its Gemini Flash and Pro AI models, requiring users to pay for usage that was previously available at no cost.

Meta is expanding its AI agent Muse to small businesses with new integrations like Shopify, Dropbox, and Slack, aiming to help owners run operations and find new customers more efficiently.

Cline was featured at Meta Connect as a top harness for Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 model, with a free contributor variant available.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5, which is 30% faster and cheaper while beating benchmarks, and it is now the free tier model on claude.ai.

VeriCouncil is a Windows desktop app that processes a single prompt through three AI models with assigned roles and displays their disagreements without synthesis, aiding users in evaluating conflicting responses.

Span-01 is a new hyper-parallel reasoning classifier that is cheaper and performs better than existing models like Jev and GPT-6 Luna, with a free lite version available.

Gemini 3.8 Flash is available for free in Cline, scoring 41 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, the highest in its price tier, and outperforming models like GPT-5.6 Luna and DeepSeek v4.1 Flash.

uivoid now offers free hosted PostgreSQL databases for LLMs, enabling end-to-end system creation and hosting with authentication and MCP server integration.

TourKit is a lightweight product tour tool for websites, featuring a hosted dashboard for easy editing, context-aware steps, and a free tier with paid plans available.