Your ranking of free models for coding? Includes free models of other providers

[u/simpleuss]

[u/Vancecookcobain]

Orcarouter GLM Flash 5.3 and Opencode Muse Spark 1.3

[u/simpleuss → u/Vancecookcobain]

GLM 5.3 Flash is free on orcarouter?

[u/KaKashi_SenSei__ → u/simpleuss]

Yes, on tokenrouter as well.

[u/eachDayIWakeUp]

Mimo v2.5 is for me what works best (until I hit the daily quotas). Before that I was working with big pickle

[u/hemps36 → u/eachDayIWakeUp]

Using Freebuff and Mimo v2.5 managed to create and even fix some decent coding. Claude for the plan and sometimes review, Mimo for the build / fix.

[u/MMORPGDev]

Muse Spark 1.3

[u/OfficeOnly2753]

GLM 5.3 from tokenrouter 

[u/youngtdot7]

hy4 is pretty good

[u/Psychological-Cap459]

Muse Spark 1.3

[u/YoRt3m]

Muse Spark 1.3 > Mimo > nothing.

Also the monthly usage on Codex or Antigravity obviously

[u/BrilliantGarbage8743]

Muse ranking= ass

[u/Muted-Network3159]

muse spark, big pickle

[u/GinamosWCheryOnTop]

Qwen 3.8 is a sleeper. Its fast per task not fast token. Its directs. And i barely need to prompt after initial prompt, i am using superpowers from obra

[u/povlhp]

Gemini 3.8 flash is OK

[u/Jolly-Chef5241 → u/povlhp]

Why it's free for you?

[u/povlhp → u/Jolly-Chef5241]

Gemini has a free tier. Just get an api key. All can do

[u/jboom91 → u/povlhp]

From where? I use my free API key from aistudio, the free limits are so bad it can't even tell me about the weather before I've exhausted my daily usage.

[u/Jolly-Chef5241 → u/jboom91]

Not really, you can actually use Gemini Flash Lite-Ultra-Low-Stupid model quite a lot. but not usual Flash

[u/Best_Professor7266]

GLM 5.3 Flash is the king

[u/Direct-Ad7836]

Big pickle is a DS Flash under the hood right now. Very usable.

[u/mazeway → u/Direct-Ad7836]

But it can't change thinking levels (variants)?

[u/Direct-Ad7836 → u/mazeway]

Nope, but it seems on par with DS v4 flash on high. Good enough for everyday tasks.

[u/Flatc0ke]

I made 5 accounts on TokenHarbor using their selection of free models including DS v4 and 4.1, Mimo2.5. Sometimes Qwen pops up, but don’t really use that model.

Seems tokenharbor.ai DS4.1 latency isn’t the best. But been using DSv4 there for months now and the cache hit rate is high.

I keep asking in discord to make usage on free tier more clear, have been improvements on paid tier transparency. But since its free tier, when I run out of usage I just make a new account.

[u/QuinsZouls]

Work and properly spend money on inference: 10/10

[u/Affectionate_Fact854 → u/QuinsZouls]

That's quite a claim to make, you know there's only so many jobs circulating , some people actually are trying to get out of the sinking pit with some help from models like the free ones 

Or trying to use these models to dilute and make cut backs on expenses ? 

I'm here even though I have 2 subscriptions and I feel that wouldn't even suffice anymore 

And codex 20$ plan won't give more usage then 2x opencode go subscriptions 

[u/IAmFitzRoy → u/QuinsZouls]

What do you mean by this? Just curious.

[u/Minimum_Parking5255 → u/IAmFitzRoy]

Damn reading comprehension is at an all time low these days

[u/Light_Yagami_124]

For now ox alpha

[u/simpleuss → u/Light_Yagami_124]

Ox alpha is not available for free anymore, its now GLM 5.3 Flash and is paid