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Free AI · October 2026

This month’s free picks

Sources checked 21 October 2026. These are editorial starting points based on published capabilities, not a tested ranking.

  1. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Free — OpenCode A bounded coding task in the OpenCode client Temporary offer
  2. MiniMax M3.1 Flash Free — OpenRouter Coding or tool-use experiments with text, images or video Free allowance
  3. Gemma 4 31B Free — OpenRouter Image-and-text questions or a function-calling prototype Free allowance
  4. Nemotron 3.5 Super VL — NVIDIA Document images, video frames or multimodal reasoning experiments Trial only
  5. GPT OSS 20B — NVIDIA Text reasoning and tool-use experiments Trial only

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