What FreeModel is

FreeModel is an AI model gateway that gives you a single API key for dozens of model providers, routes each task to the best available model, tries free models first, and falls back automatically when a provider fails or runs out of quota.

That sentence also appears on the home page, in llms.txt, in the llms.txt description field and here. If they ever disagree, one of them is a bug — a brand described two different ways is a brand the models describe wrongly.

What it is not

Worth being blunt about, because the word "gateway" gets used loosely:

• Not a model. We do not train anything and serve no inference from our own machines. Every request is forwarded to a provider that already hosts the model.
• Not a reseller hiding the source. Bring your own provider keys and that provider bills you directly; we add nothing. The models are theirs, not ours relabelled.
• Not a lock-in. Your client talks to a standard OpenAI or Anthropic shape. Changing where it points is one line, in either direction.
• Not a promise about quality. Routing picks among models that fit the task. It does not make a weak model strong.

How to check the claims

Every number on this site is either counted from a live endpoint or dated. The two that matter most are both public:

# models callable right now — count them yourself
curl -s https://freemodel.online/v1/models | grep -o '"id"' | wc -l

# the price catalogue with per-model rates
curl -s https://freemodel.online/v1/models | head -c 200

If a number on this site disagrees with those endpoints, the endpoints are right and the page needs fixing.

Aiglade

FreeModel is the model layer under Aiglade, a desktop app that runs several AI agents at once on Windows with no setup. Aiglade ships pointing here, so its users never register with a provider or paste a key — that is the whole reason it can claim "no setup" and mean it.

The two are independent products. FreeModel is usable on its own from any client; Aiglade is a client that happens to use it by default.

Naming

"Free" refers to free quota being spent first, not to the service being cost-free. Paid models are reachable and are billed in the console.

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