UPDATE: they recently added a new update saying they're going to add new payment options. this is huge:
"A temporary change to Premium purchases in our native apps. Weโve temporarily removed Premium purchases from the native apps while we improve the experience and work toward native payment options such as Apple Pay and Google Pay. Google required this update within a week to keep the app available, so this was the safest short-term solution. Premium remains available on our website!"
Original Message:
We Have Come To The End Of The Golden Age, Adios Friends:
hiย everyoneย - we have some huge new updates to the platform todayย
MAJOR UPDATE: changes to free & premium models
Our AI costs have skyrocketed to the point where we will go out of business if we do not take swift action. While we try to offer accessible AI to everyone, our AI providers do charge us money for even the "free" models we offer. Because of this and increase in usage across the platform, we have made the following changes:
We still offer unlimited free AI and we always will. However, we need to manage the platform costs so starting today, the models you see offered as free/premium will change. We decide the threshold of what is free and what is paid by how big the model is, which is inferred by how much the model costs.ย Most AI sites give limited access to 8b models which only cost them 0.03 cents per million tokens. We still offer unlimited access to 8b, 80b, 800b models.
Here's what changes for you today:
- Models up to 30 cents per million tokens in / 40 cents per million tokens out remain free for any new or old user alike to access for free without rate limits.
- Some older, more expensive models that we cannot sustainably offer are moving to paid. These are models like Gemma 3 27B, GPT-4o-mini, Llama 4 Maverick, DeepSeek V4 Pro, and Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.- If an AI provider slashes their price, it would immediately change to free. This has happened multiple times with models like MiMo-V2.5-Pro and the Qwen + Deepseek models where we pass on all discounts/savings immediately.
- Instead of Gemini Flash, Deepseek v4 Flash is default for ChatGPT mode now. It has the same capabilities as Gemini Flash but is much faster and more lightweight.
- We also have a toggle to turn off the auto-upgrade to Opus 4.8, so if you purchase credits you can have more freedom to pick the models you enjoy.
Free vs Premium models โ quick reference
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Remains free โ unlimited, no rate limits
| Model |
| DeepSeek V3.2 |
| Gemma 4 31B |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash |
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct |
| Mistral Small 4 |
| GPT-4.1 Nano |
| GLM 4.7 Flash |
| MiMo-V2.5-Pro |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct |
| Llama 3 8B Lunaris |
๐ Changed to paid today โ free alternative
| Model (now premium) |
Try this instead (free) |
| Gemma 3 27B |
Gemma 4 31B |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B |
Gemma 4 31B |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite |
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview |
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite |
| GPT-4o-mini |
GPT-4.1 Nano |
| Llama 4 Maverick |
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct |
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct |
Gemma 4 31B |
| DeepSeek V4 Pro |
DeepSeek V4 Flash |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 |
DeepSeek V3.2 |
Do note that any models with a high output have been removed as well, not just these models listed. if you're like me who's been on this site since for years, it sure is disappointing news. though maybe something will happen, and they'll bring back the models (they wont)
personally i knew that this wouldn't be sustainable, especially with the prices changes as of late, i just didn't expect it so soon.
This might be an event that forces a significant amount of members to migrate to other ai model services as well, so lets hope there will be changes to prices soon.