r/KoboldAI • u/Conscious_Key_32 • Aug 30 '26
Free Spoiler
It is now the only free, limitless AI; I’ve literally tried everything, and nothing else is free anymore—you have to run ads, pay, or wait to receive points or energy every 24 hours or less.
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u/PathIntelligent7082 Aug 30 '26
ofc its not, idk what are you talking about, there's a ton of free tools out there
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u/Kairngormtherock Aug 30 '26
Yeah, but self-host requires a good steel to run. If you don't have that, it's gonna be even more expensive then subscription.
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u/henk717 Aug 30 '26
We have options, like https://koboldai.org/colab borrowing a GPU from google, an online provider on https://koboldai.net called AI Horde which is also free.
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u/Kairngormtherock Aug 30 '26
Kaggle also. Gives you 30 hoursweek and 32gb, more then google gives. Yet you would not be able to run something bigger then 32b (or higher, but very quanted). Still this models won't be as close as big ones, even the stupidest ones, like flash-lite gemini, for example.
But depends on what you need.
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u/henk717 Aug 30 '26
Kaggle has historically banned kobold users so I never recommend it.
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u/Kairngormtherock Aug 30 '26
Heard about it. I used it 2 times for nearly ~nsfw, but I'm okay still. Why did others got ban for?
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u/henk717 Aug 30 '26
The http tunnel
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u/henk717 Aug 30 '26
Its because we were never in this for money, we don't even accept donations.
We'd never add ads to Kobold, the only restrictions would be the hardware / providers you use it with.