# Free models, your own key: what changed in v1.2.0, sgit.ai > The changes to the article "Free models, your own key" in v1.2.0, 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) / v1.2.0 # Free models, your own key: what changed in v1.2.0 From v1.1.0 (2026-10-19, `d303ce0f1`) to v1.2.0 (2026-10-27, `db67c5ce1`), paragraph by paragraph. 0 paragraphs added, 0 removed, 1 changed in place, 90 unchanged. About 0 words added and 82 removed. Insertions are marked like this, deletions like this; unchanged runs are folded to one line; figures appear as their file names. [← v1.1.0](v1.1.0.md) · [all versions](../free-models-your-own-key.md) 2 unchanged paragraphs !shot fi-map.webp | images/ | Every free inference offer we checked on 18 October 2026, placed by two questions. Across: can a web page call the provider directly, with the reader's key? Up: can anyone start free without a card? Top right are Groq, Gemini through AI Studio, Mistral's free mode and OpenRouter's free models, with Cohere's trial and Pollinations; Alibaba Model Studio is there with a catch. Top left, free but needing a server in between: Cloudflare Workers AI, Z.ai and NVIDIA. Bottom, a card, credits or gone: Cerebras, Together, Hugging Face, Fireworks, DeepInfra, SambaNova and the retired GitHub Models. | comparison 88 unchanged paragraphs, under In short {#in-short}, What we want {#want}, How we checked {#method}… [← v1.1.0](v1.1.0.md) · [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/v1.2.0.html)*