What changed, and when.

cutIdeogram correction: the free tier is 10 slow credits per week (resets Saturday 00:00 UTC), not the 10/day we listed. The official pricing page is explicit about the weekly cadence.

changedGoogle Flow free credits pinned down from Google's own help page: 50 credits/day, no rollover, and free credits only cover Veo 3.1 Lite/Fast/Quality generations. We had it listed as a monthly allowance.

changedLuma Dream Machine correction: free credits are monthly, not daily. Luma doesn't publish the web amount; the iOS app lists 250 credits/month.

changedPerplexity correction: the free plan does include Deep Research, capped to a handful of runs per day. We previously said it had none.

killedGemini CLI is gone: Google shut it down for consumer accounts on June 18, 2026. Its successor Antigravity CLI keeps a free tier, but a much smaller one: roughly 20 agent requests/day (down from 250 at launch), shared with the Antigravity IDE, and Google doesn't publish exact numbers. The ledger row has been replaced. Flagged by a reader through the corrections form - thank you.

cutGemini API: Pro models were removed from the free tier in April 2026; Flash models stay free (Gemini 3 Flash ~1,500 req/day). Google no longer publishes exact free-tier quotas, so check your project's limits in AI Studio.

cutOpenRouter correction: the free-model cap is 50 requests/day without a credit purchase, not the 200/day we listed. A one-time $10 credit purchase still lifts it to 1,000/day permanently.

changedWindsurf Free correction: the quota introduced in March 2026 is daily, not monthly - roughly 5 Cascade agent actions/day, with Tab autocomplete still unlimited.

cutSuno Free: downloads are gone since the late-2025 Warner licensing deal - free songs are listen-only inside Suno. Still 50 credits/day (~10 songs).

siteAdded an RSS feed of every change: changes.xml. Drop it in any RSS reader (or Slack, or a script) and get notified when a free tier changes instead of finding out when your scripts break. Suggested by reddit user u/RemoveOk9920.

siteEvery service name in the ledger is now clickable and opens its own history page (e.g. /service/chatgpt) showing the current free tier plus every recorded change with before/after values. Raw change data: changes.json.

siteThe ledger is now machine-readable: free-tiers.json and llms.txt, licensed CC BY 4.0 (reuse freely, link back). Every service row also has a permanent anchor link.

verifiedFull board verified: every entry in the ledger now carries a hand-checked date. Highlights below.

verifiedOpenAI quietly replaced its dead $5 welcome credit with something better: opt in to sharing your API data and you get a daily free-token allowance, up to ~1M tokens/day on frontier models and ~10M/day on mini models. Anthropic's API offers a one-time $5 trial credit (SMS verification required).

killedGoogle ImageFX and Whisk were shut down in April 2026 and folded into Google Flow, which keeps a free tier with monthly credits (Imagen images plus limited Veo video).

changedWindsurf overhauled pricing in March 2026: credits replaced by daily/weekly quotas. Free plan keeps unlimited Tab autocomplete with ~25 agent actions/month.

changedGemini's free app plan moved from daily message caps to compute-based limits refreshing every 5 hours with a weekly ceiling. Free tier includes 5 Deep Research uses/month.

verifiedAlso verified today: Grok free ~10 msgs/2h (needs 7-day-old X account with verified phone), Le Chat ~25 msgs/day, GitHub Models 50 req/day on high-tier models, Cohere 1,000 calls/month, Gemini CLI 1,000 requests/day, Kling 66 credits/day, Luma ~1 free clip/day, Runway 125 one-time credits.

changedGroq free tier confirmed cut: most models now allow 1,000 requests/day, down from 14,400 earlier this year. Token caps unchanged (~100K/day on llama-3.3-70b).

changedChatGPT Free: the fast window is ~10 messages per 5 hours, and opting out of personalized ads can reduce it to as low as ~5 messages per 3 hours.

verifiedOpenRouter free models: 200 requests/day by default; a one-time purchase of $10 in credits lifts the cap to 1,000 requests/day permanently.

verifiedGemini API free tier: enabling billing on a Google Cloud project removes the free tier on that project entirely. Keep free keys on a project with no billing attached.

verifiedGitHub Copilot Free: 2,000 completions and 50 chat/agent requests per month, auto model selection only.

verifiedMistral Experiment tier: roughly 1B tokens/month free, but you must opt in to data training. Cerebras: ~1M tokens/day, no card required.

launchedThe ledger goes live: 33 free tiers tracked across chat, APIs, coding, image, audio and video. 15 verified by hand today; the rest are queued for the next sweep.