Google AI Studio provides free access to Gemini 1.5 Flash and Gemini 2.0 Flash with a massive 1M token context window. The most generous permanent free tier of any frontier model provider.
// Pros
1,500 free requests/day resets daily
Massive 1M token context
Native multimodal (image, audio, video)
// Cons
Rate limits apply on free tier
Some features require billing enabled
// Score breakdown
Reliability (35%) (from 2m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)85/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)94/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)96/100