free-coding-models 0.5.96 → 0.5.97

package/README.md

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 <p align="center">
   <strong>Find the fastest free coding model in seconds.</strong><br>
-  Live latency, stability and verdicts for 259 models from 25 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>
 
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 ## 💡 Why this tool?
 
-There is a large catalog of free and free-limited coding models (**25 providers / 259 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.
 
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 ## 🟢 Providers
 
-**25 active providers / 259 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` |
-| [Kilo](https://kilo.ai) | 21 | S+ | `KILO_API_KEY` |
-| [OpenRouter](https://openrouter.ai/keys) | 21 | S+ | `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` |
 | [Pollinations AI](https://enter.pollinations.ai) | 21 | S+ | `POLLINATIONS_API_KEY` |
-| [Ollama Cloud](https://ollama.com/settings/keys) | 20 | S+ | `OLLAMA_API_KEY` |
-| [Cloudflare AI](https://dash.cloudflare.com) | 15 | S | `CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN` |
-| [OVHcloud AI](https://endpoints.ai.cloud.ovh.net) | 13 | S+ | `OVH_AI_ENDPOINTS_ACCESS_TOKEN` |
-| [NVIDIA NIM](https://build.nvidia.com) | 12 | S+ | `NVIDIA_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).
 

package/changelog/v0.5.97.md

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+### 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

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 {
   "name": "free-coding-models",
-  "version": "0.5.96",
+  "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",