free-coding-models 0.5.95 → 0.5.97

package/README.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 <p align="center">
   <strong>Find the fastest free coding model in seconds.</strong><br>
-  Live latency, stability and verdicts for 256 models from 24 free AI providers, then install the one you pick straight into your favorite coding tool.<br><br>
+  Live latency, stability and verdicts for 271 models from 25 free AI providers, then install the one you pick straight into your favorite coding tool.<br><br>
   <strong>Works with:</strong> OpenCode CLI / Desktop / WebUI, OpenClaw, Crush, Goose, Aider, Kilo CLI, Qwen Code, OpenHands, Amp, Hermes, Continue, Cline, Xcode, Pi, ZCode, ForgeCode, Copilot, jcode, Caveman Code and more.
 </p>
 
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ free-coding-models
 ```
 
 <p align="center">
-  <sub>Then create a free account on one of the <a href="#-providers">24 providers</a> to grab an API key.</sub>
+  <sub>Then create a free account on one of the <a href="#-providers">25 providers</a> to grab an API key.</sub>
 </p>
 
 <p align="center">
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ free-coding-models
 
 ## 💡 Why this tool?
 
-There is a large catalog of free and free-limited coding models (**24 providers / 256 live models**, generated from [`sources.js`](./sources.js)). Which one is fastest *right now*? Which one is actually stable, versus just lucky on the last ping?
+There is a large catalog of free and free-limited coding models (**25 providers / 271 live models**, generated from [`sources.js`](./sources.js)). Which one is fastest *right now*? Which one is actually stable, versus just lucky on the last ping?
 
 `free-coding-models` (FCM) answers that by pinging every model in parallel, showing live latency, and computing a **live Stability Score (0-100)** combining p95 latency, jitter, spike rate and uptime. Average latency alone is misleading: a model that randomly spikes to 6 seconds is not reliable.
 
@@ -87,18 +87,18 @@ free-coding-models --fiable              # print the single most reliable model
 
 ## 🟢 Providers
 
-**24 active providers / 256 live models**, sorted by live model count. Top 8:
+**25 active providers / 271 live models**, sorted by live model count. Top 8:
 
 | Provider | Models | Best tier | Env var |
 |----------|--------|-----------|---------|
+| [onomeo](https://onomeo.com/dashboard) | 33 | S+ | `ONOMEO_API_KEY` |
 | [Alibaba DashScope](https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com) | 29 | S+ | `DASHSCOPE_API_KEY` |
-| [Pollinations AI](https://enter.pollinations.ai) | 23 | S+ | `POLLINATIONS_API_KEY` |
-| [OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai/keys) | 21 | S+ | `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` |
-| [Kilo](https://kilo.ai) | 20 | S+ | `KILO_API_KEY` |
-| [Ollama Cloud](https://ollama.com/settings/keys) | 20 | S+ | `OLLAMA_API_KEY` |
-| [OVHcloud AI](https://endpoints.ai.cloud.ovh.net) | 17 | S+ | `OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_ACCESS_TOKEN` |
-| [Cloudflare AI](https://dash.cloudflare.com) | 15 | S+ | `CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN` |
-| [NVIDIA NIM](https://build.nvidia.com) | 12 | S+ | `NVIDIA_API_KEY` |
+| [Pollinations AI](https://enter.pollinations.ai) | 21 | S+ | `POLLINATIONS_API_KEY` |
+| [OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai/keys) | 18 | S+ | `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` |
+| [Kilo](https://kilo.ai) | 17 | S+ | `KILO_API_KEY` |
+| [Ollama Cloud](https://ollama.com/settings/keys) | 17 | S+ | `OLLAMA_API_KEY` |
+| [NVIDIA NIM](https://build.nvidia.com) | 16 | S+ | `NVIDIA_API_KEY` |
+| [OVHcloud AI](https://endpoints.ai.cloud.ovh.net) | 15 | S+ | `OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_ACCESS_TOKEN` |
 
 > 🧾 **What "free" means here:** free is a property of the *(provider, model)* pair, never of the provider as a whole. A row is listed only when that exact model id costs $0 to call through that provider (permanent free tier, `:free` variant, or free plan), verified live at audit time. The same open-weights model can be free on one host and paid on another - paid siblings are deliberately excluded. Full breakdown and badge legend: [`docs/providers.md`](./docs/providers.md).
 
@@ -129,6 +129,10 @@ The TUI is the heart of FCM: a live, sortable table of every model with real lat
 
 Mouse support: click headers to sort, double-click a row to launch, right-click to favorite, scroll to navigate.
 
+### Languages
+
+The TUI and Web Dashboard support English (default) and Simplified Chinese (`zh-CN`). Change **Language** in Settings; the preference is shared and saved in your local config.
+
 > 📖 **Full key table, mouse reference and workflows:** [`docs/tui.md`](./docs/tui.md) · Stability score and columns: [`docs/stability.md`](./docs/stability.md)
 
 ---

package/bin/free-coding-models.js

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ if (_configDirIdx !== -1 && process.argv[_configDirIdx + 1] && !process.argv[_co
 import chalk from 'chalk';
 import { parseArgs, TIER_LETTER_MAP } from '../src/core/utils.js';
 import { loadConfig, saveConfig } from '../src/core/config.js';
+import { setLocale } from '../src/core/i18n/index.js';
 import { ensureTelemetryConfig } from '../src/core/telemetry.js';
 import { ensureFavoritesConfig } from '../src/core/favorites.js';
 import { buildCliHelpText } from '../src/tui/cli-help.js';
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ async function main() {
   const cliArgs = parseArgs(process.argv);
 
   if (cliArgs.helpMode) {
+    setLocale(loadConfig().settings?.language || 'en');
     console.log();
     console.log(buildCliHelpText({ chalk, title: 'free-coding-models' }));
     console.log();

package/changelog/v0.5.96.md

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Changelog v0.5.96 - 2026-09-26
+
+Community release: 3 issues fixed, 5 pull requests merged (4 new contributors), 1 declined with reason. The catalog moves to **25 providers / 259 models** with the addition of onomeo and 2 Mistral coding models, minus 6 Pollinations models that silently left the free tier.
+
+### Added
+
+- **🇨🇳 Simplified Chinese localization** (PR #193 by @Mavlan): the TUI and the Web Dashboard now share one i18n layer, English stays the default and `zh-CN` is one setting away. The language preference is persisted in the shared config and exposed through the web Settings API. CLI help, settings, router, install, search and command-palette text are all localized, and CJK display-width handling is reused for TUI columns and overlay clipping.
+- **onomeo provider** (PR #187 by @Owaid0723666, who also disclosed operating the service): 9 free coding models behind a daily check-in credit system (50k credits on day 1, up to 200k/day with a streak, no card). Wired end to end: env var `ONOMEO_API_KEY`, key test against `GET /v1/models`, quota badge `limited`, theme colors, Docker env passthrough and provider card on the website. Model ids verified live against the public catalog; premium models deliberately not listed.
+- **Mistral coding model aliases** (PR #192 by @MrTodone): `mistral-code-latest` and `mistral-code-fim-latest` join the Mistral provider (both live-verified aliases of codestral-2508, 256k context), handy for clients that address the `mistral-code-*` family directly.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **Daemon dashboard "[object Object]" toast on every open** (issue #189): the daemon's embedded dashboard only stubbed `GET /api/tool-mode`, so the frontend's POST (URL write-back of `?toolMode=`) fell through to the OpenAI-style 404 catch-all. The daemon now handles GET and POST like `web/server.js`: GET returns the persisted `settings.preferredToolMode` instead of a hardcoded `opencode`, POST validates and persists the mode, and the frontend hook extracts nested `error.message` so any future failure reads as a sentence, not `[object Object]`. Covered by 4 new integration tests.
+- **"Unrecognized flag: --model" when launching OpenCode v2** (issue #194): OpenCode v2 rejects flags its entry points don't know, and `opencode web` never accepted `--model` at all. FCM already wrote your pick into `opencode.json` (`config.model`) before every launch, so the flag was redundant: all launch paths (CLI, Web, Desktop, snap/flatpak) now spawn bare and let the config default apply. Works identically on OpenCode v1 and v2.
+- **6 Pollinations models that quietly became paid** (issue #190, reported by @holakoyad): `minimax-m2.7`, `qwen/qwen3.8-max`, `google/gemini-3.1-pro-preview`, `nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra`, `qwen/qwen3-coder-next` and `gemma-4-31b` answer HTTP 200 with the error text embedded in the completion content on free keys, so status-code probes saw them as healthy. All 6 are removed (free alternatives remain on their original providers), and probes now sniff pollinations completions for the paid-Pollen message and report `402` instead of a fake `200`. Covered by 4 new unit tests.
+- **Router v2 failover settings wiped on restart** (PR #191 by @MrTodone): `lastResortModel`, `bodyReadTimeoutMs`, `totalBudgetMs` and `contentValidation` were silently stripped by the config normalizer on every `load() → save()` round-trip. Unknown failover keys now survive normalization (the daemon still sanitizes them at read time), with round-trip regression tests.
+- **Web Settings API key deletion could resurrect itself** (PR #195 by @ming076): `/api/settings` saved keys with a plain `saveConfig()` whose on-disk merge could restore a just-deleted key. Key add/update/delete now goes through the provider-scoped `persistApiKeysForProvider()` helper, and persistence failures return a real error instead of a fake success.
+
+### Changed
+
+- Provider counts: **24 → 25 providers, 254 → 259 models** (minus 6 paid Pollinations, plus 9 onomeo, plus 2 Mistral aliases). `docs/providers.md` regenerated from `sources.js`, README counts and Top-8 table refreshed, website catalog mirror synced.
+- Declined the chalk 5 → 6 dependabot bump (PR #183): chalk 6 requires Node 22 while FCM supports Node 18+ and CI tests Node 20. It will be revisited when the minimum Node version moves to 22.

package/changelog/v0.5.97.md

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+### Added
+
+- 📡 **Full 25-provider audit, 2 researchers at a time: 265 → 271 live models.** Every provider verified against its live API or official docs on 2026-09-29.
+- **onomeo free pool exploded to 33 models**: Gemini 3.8/3.7/3.5 Flash, GLM 4.5/4.6V/4.7 Flash and Ministral 3 14B all joined the free pool this week (maintainer-confirmed catalog).
+- **Novita free tier is back**: Qwen3.6 Plus and Qwen3.5 Plus (1M ctx, S+), Ling 3.1 Flash and dev/glm46 are zero-price again after the August dry spell.
+- NVIDIA NIM: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (1M ctx, 552B MoE agentic coder), Kimi K2.6 (256k), Nemotron Nano 3 30B and Codestral 22B re-verified live.
+- LLM7: DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (400k ctx, reasoning + tools) verified answering with no key at all.
+- OpenRouter: Space Bunny Alpha (anonymous stealth, 1M ctx) and the openrouter/free meta-router.
+- OVHcloud: Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B and Mistral Small 3.2 live on the router even though the marketing page hides them.
+- ⚙️ **Env variable placeholders in the config file (issue #196)**: any `apiKeys` value can now be `"${MY_VAR}"` and is resolved from the environment at read time. The file on disk keeps the placeholder so secrets never land on disk - perfect for Docker `env_file` setups. The shell env-file generator skips placeholder entries instead of exporting a literal that would clobber your real variable.
+
+### Changed
+
+- 🪦 **6 DashScope models flagged deprecated, shutdown 2026-10-10** per official Alibaba notices: qwen3-coder-plus, qwen3-coder-next, qwen3-coder-480b, qwen3-coder-30b, qwen3.6-max-preview and qwen3-vl-flash. They still serve until then; qwen3.7-plus/3.7-max are the replacements.
+- OrcaRouter quota strings now reflect reality: 5 $0 models + the router, 10 req/min, 50 req/day.
+- Docs provider table regenerated against the shipped catalog.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- 🐛 **CORS in Docker finally tamed (issue #198)**: `FCM_ALLOWED_ORIGINS="*"` now works. The list used to be exact-match only, so the `*` entry was silently ignored and cross-machine browser tabs failed CORS checks. Host-header DNS-rebinding protection stays on.
+- Removed 13 dead or quietly-paid models: mistral-nemotron (EOL 09-28), kimi-k2-thinking (EOL 05-12), Mistral Large 3 (403 paid-tier-only on a free key), Z.ai GLM-5.3 + FlashX (paid-only), Zen DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Free (upstream dead) and Muse Spark 1.2 (de-promoted), the ling-3.0-flash-fin `:free` variants on OpenRouter/Kilo, 2 paid Ling models on Novita, and the OrcaRouter fusion trio, which bills the sum of its paid frontier panel legs despite reporting $0.
+- Context windows corrected against live data: GLM-5.3 on NVIDIA 200k → 1M, muse-glimmer and gpt-oss-20b 128k → 131k, Zen space-bunny and longcat 200k → 1M, Pollinations nova-2-lite → nova-2-lite-v1 rename, Nex N2.5 pair ctx filled at 256k.
+- Kimi K3 on Ollama Cloud now shows its 76.8% SWE-bench Verified score.
+- onomeo provider text synced with the site's current model (PR #201, thanks @Owaid0723666).

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "free-coding-models",
-  "version": "0.5.95",
+  "version": "0.5.97",
   "description": "Find the fastest coding LLM models in seconds — ping free models from multiple providers, pick the best one for OpenCode, Cursor, or any AI coding assistant.",
   "keywords": [
     "nvidia",