# Free models, your own key: what changed in v1.1.0, sgit.ai > The changes to the article "Free models, your own key" in v1.1.0, paragraph by paragraph. *Source: · sgit.ai v0.7.87 · this file is generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift. Every page on this site has a `.md` twin; internal links below point at them.* --- [Home](../../../index.md) / [Articles](../../index.md) / [Free models, your own key](../../free-models-your-own-key.md) / [Versions](../free-models-your-own-key.md) / v1.1.0 # Free models, your own key: what changed in v1.1.0 From v1.0.0 (2026-10-18, `c7ba8dfde`) to v1.1.0 (2026-10-18, this release), paragraph by paragraph. 0 paragraphs added, 0 removed, 1 changed in place, 90 unchanged. About 1 words added and 0 removed. Insertions are marked like this, deletions like this; unchanged runs are folded to one line; figures appear as their file names. [all versions](../free-models-your-own-key.md) 1 unchanged paragraph Summary: I wantwould like readers of this newsroom to be able to talk to it with a capable model, for free, without us paying for their questions and without us ever holding their key. The newsroom already answers questions from its own passages, with Chrome's built-in model or the reader's own OpenRouter key, and OpenRouter's free models stop at 50 requests a day until you buy credits. So we looked at every free inference offer we could find, as it stands on 18 October 2026, for material that is not private. Two things decide whether a provider works for this. Can anyone start free without a card? And can a web page call it directly, so the key goes from the reader's browser to the provider and nowhere else? We read each provider's pricing, limits and terms, and tested every API from the newsroom's own address. Four pass both tests: Groq, Google's Gemini API through AI Studio, Mistral's free mode, and OpenRouter's free models, which also offer a sign-in flow so the reader never copies a key. Cohere's trial and Pollinations pass too, with smaller limits. Cloudflare Workers AI has the most generous free allowance and does not train on what you send, but a page cannot call it, so it needs a small server the reader can deploy. NVIDIA's catalogue is strong and free, but it fails both tests that matter here, and its terms say trial use only. And a lot changed in 2026: GitHub Models was retired, Hugging Face stopped giving free accounts credits, and Cerebras and SambaNova now need a card. This is the map, what is possible, what is not, and what we will build. 89 unchanged paragraphs, under In short {#in-short}, What we want {#want}, How we checked {#method}… [all versions](../free-models-your-own-key.md) --- *[Site index for agents](../../../llms.txt) · [HTML version](https://newsroom.sgit.ai/articles/versions/free-models-your-own-key/v1.1.0.html)*