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Free but limited in usage, not a production key.","cost":"free","limits":{"apiCallsPerMonth":1000,"requestsPerMinute":20,"monthlyCapSharedAcrossTrialKey":true},"sourceUrl":"https://docs.cohere.com/docs/rate-limits","notes":"Page fetched twice 2026-10-25 about 10 s apart without logging in (HTTP 200, no redirect, identical HTML; response header 'last-modified: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:27:48 GMT'; the page itself shows no last-updated date). 'Cohere offers two kinds of API keys: evaluation keys (free but limited in usage), and production keys (paid and much less limited in usage).' 'Trial keys (and prod keys on newer Chat model variants) are limited to 1,000 API calls a month.' 'Prod keys work like trial keys for newer model variants such as Command A Reasoning.' 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Includes gemini-3.8-flash, gemini-3.6-flash, gemini-3.5-flash-lite, gemini-3.1-flash-lite, gemini-3-flash-preview, gemini-2.5-pro, gemini-2.5-flash, and gemini-2.5-flash-lite.","cost":"free_tier_unspecified","sourceUrl":"https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricing","notes":"Pricing page fetched twice 2026-10-24 (identical text; page footer 'Last updated 2026-10-22 UTC'): the Free tier card lists 'Limited access to certain models' and 'Free input & output tokens'; each listed model's Standard Free Tier input and output cells read 'Free of charge'. gemini-3.7-flash and gemini-3.5-flash, listed in this row before 0.12.96, no longer appear on the page, so they were removed rather than kept unsourced. 'Gemini 4 Argon is not available on the Free tier.' and gemini-3.1-pro-preview standard free-tier cells read 'Not available'. Batch free-tier cells read 'Not available' for several of these models (gemini-3.8-flash, gemini-3-flash-preview, gemini-2.5-pro, gemini-2.5-flash). 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Every quote above string-matched the whitespace-normalized text except the older footer stamps, which are fetch-date stamps, not row values; the eight listed models' Standard free-tier input cells still read 'Free of charge', and gemini-3.7-flash and gemini-3.5-flash are still absent; values unchanged (Depot data decision to re-date only, approvalRef 'Ethan delegation 2026-10-21 19:41 ET t55u', decidedBy Agent Depo).","limits":null,"license":null,"asOf":"2026-10-26","freeType":"free_inference","substitutable":true},{"id":"google-ai-studio","name":"Google AI Studio","kind":"free_tool","providerId":"google-ai","jtbdIds":["frontier-chat"],"whatYouGet":"Using Google AI Studio, Google's hosted studio for trying Gemini models, is free of charge in all available regions. 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