Kilo Code: Kilo :free model pool + kilo-auto/free router
Kilo offers the dynamic kilo-auto/free route with no credits required and several individually identified free models. Free models are available to authenticated and anonymous users. Anonymous use is limited to 200 requests per hour per IP address; upstream providers may impose additional rate limits. Users must configure agentic interactions, autocomplete, and background tasks separately if they want every Kilo inference path to remain free.
The terms in full
Kilo offers the dynamic kilo-auto/free route with no credits required and several individually identified free models. Free models are available to authenticated and anonymous users. Anonymous use is limited to 200 requests per hour per IP address; upstream providers may impose additional rate limits. Users must configure agentic interactions, autocomplete, and background tasks separately if they want every Kilo inference path to remain free.
- When it runs out Not stated by the provider.
- Clock No end date is stated for kilo-auto/free. Individual free-model availability changes over time. NVIDIA endpoints are labeled trial use only, with no stated end date.
- Region Kilo's terms prohibit access from U.S.-embargoed countries and territories and by sanctioned parties. The listed examples include Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, Crimea, and the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.
Models
Kilo's gateway documentation does not publish a fixed list of free model IDs and directs users to the live model catalog for current free options. Free models are identified by a :free suffix in the model ID, and on 2026-09-22 the authentication documentation gives minimax/minimax-m2.1:free and z-ai/glm-5:free as its examples. kilo-auto/free selects a model dynamically per session from a curated set of available free models, and that mapping updates server-side as free model availability shifts. For an account with no balance, the kilo-auto/small background route resolves to google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free.
Signup, payment, data
- Signup not required for the documented free-model gateway routes; anonymous users are supported
- Card / payment not required for anonymous access; kilo-auto/free explicitly requires no credits
- Training Depends on the upstream model provider the request is routed to.
- Data terms Offer-wide warning: Auto Free may route requests to providers that log prompts and outputs and use them to improve services. Model-specific example: NVIDIA free endpoints log use for security and to improve NVIDIA products and services; improvement-session data is described as not linked to identity or a persistent identifier.
What the provider's page says
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- payment “Free with limited capability. No credits required. The resolved model is selected dynamically per session from a curated set of available free models; the mapping updates server-side as free model availability shifts.” source
- limits “Anonymous users are rate-limited to 200 requests per hour per IP address.” source
Evidence pages, re-read nightly
Change history
- Terms changed: Kilo Code Kilo :free model pool + kilo-auto/free router (models detail)
- models detail Kilo's gateway documentation does not publish a fixed list of free model IDs and directs users to the live model catalog for current free options. Free models are identified by a :free suffix in the model ID, and on 2026-09-22 the authentication documentation gives minimax/minimax-m2.1:free and z-ai
Evidence and scope
- Last verified
- 2026-09-22 (recheck due 2026-10-22)
- Evidence standard
- Provider-owned pricing, quota, limits, model or account pages only; third-party lists are never evidence.
- Data
- program.json, and the whole inventory at free-access.json (CC BY 4.0)
LLM Price Index lists what the provider publishes and links the page it came from. It does not test speed or quality, and a free route can change or end without notice; the change history above records what the nightly re-read confirmed.