Are any of the other 'free' models worth using?

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When I was using opencode, I would just use the daily free Deepseek 4.1 allowance for when I wanted to test something using a bigger/better model than my local Qwen-Flash-Next. However I'm now using Pi, and unfortunately there's currently no way to use the opencode free models on Pi. And I am yet to find any other provider with free deepseek usage. I did find a couple ways to get other models, such as the ones below, but most of them I've never tried before and have no idea on their current capabilities. Are any of these worth folding into my workflow? I guess Qwen 3.8 should be, assuming it's the full model, as I already use a Q5 of that occasionally (but it has limited context of about 128k so the online one would get the full 268k which would be handy too). Depends if full-size Qwen 3.8 is better than the current Q4 Flash-Next I use. Dots3-Note Preview (384K) Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B Nemotron 3.5 Lightning North Mini Code Liquid LFM3 1.7B Kilo Auto0 OpenRouter Glyph Cluster Nemotron 3.5 Super VL GPT-OSS 120B GPT-OSS 20B Qwen3.5 397B A17B Qwen3.5 9B Qwen3.6 27B Qwen3.8 27B Mistral Small 3.2 24B Meta Llama 3.3 70B Instruct   submitted by   /u/nirurin [link]   [comments]