Cuts, restrictions, retirements and new free offers, each tied to an official source. “First observed” is the state on our first check — the provider's own change date isn't verified.
The new flagship is paid-only ($2/$10 per 1M input/output tokens through Nov 30, 2026, doubling to $4/$20 from Dec 1). Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is also paid-only.
ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing (opens in new tab)Google says it is limiting access to the 2.5 models to users who actively used them before; new projects are told to use 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash.
ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations (opens in new tab)Official FAQ: credits are granted only after adding a verified payment method and expire after 30 days. Free Trial limits for gpt-oss-120b are 5 RPM, 30K uncached TPM, 1M tokens/day.
inference-docs.cerebras.ai/support/rate-limits (opens in new tab)Docs state Together does not currently offer free trials and requires a minimum $15 credit purchase.
docs.together.ai/docs/billing (opens in new tab)The billing table lists 'None' for Free users; PRO and Team/Enterprise seats get $2.00/month in compute credits.
huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing (opens in new tab)Rate-limit docs define a Free Tier (20 RPM / 20 RPD / 200K TPD per model) 'when there is no payment method linked', but the Plans page says to add a payment method and buy credits to run your first requests. We mark card requirement as unverified.
docs.sambanova.ai/docs/en/models/rate-limits (opens in new tab)Public models API lists 17 ':free' variants (Nemotron 3, Gemma 4, North Mini Code, Laguna, Inkling…). Free usage limits: 20 RPM; 50 RPD under 10 purchased credits, 1,000 RPD at 10+.
openrouter.ai/docs/api-reference/limits (opens in new tab)Pricing page: 'You have to add a card or pre-pay or you won't be able to use our services.' Lists claiming $5 free credits are not backed by an official source.
deepinfra.com/pricing (opens in new tab)Kimi K2.6 / K2.7-code, GLM-5.2 / 5.3 / 5.3-flash and three DeepSeek V4 variants can only be used with Workers Paid or prepaid AI Gateway credits. The 10,000 Neurons/day free allocation is unchanged.
developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/ (opens in new tab)Google's consumer Gemini app limited free accounts to Flash-Lite from 9 Oct 2026. This does not change the Gemini API: on 21 Oct the API pricing page still lists Gemini 3.8 Flash, 3.6 Flash, 2.5 Pro and others as 'Free of charge' on the Free tier.
ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing (opens in new tab)The playground, model catalog, inference API and BYOK are no longer available to any customer. GitHub points to Azure AI Foundry or GitHub Copilot.
docs.github.com/en/github-models/use-github-models/prototyping-with-ai-models (opens in new tab)One email a week with every free-tier change we caught — what was cut, what became free, and the source for each. Nothing else.
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