Google's gemini-cli offers the most generous current free tier, 2500 daily requests. I'd recommend checking it out, since mostly everything said about Claude Code applies to it too
You will get limited to Flash after a few requests, Google is straight up lying with the request limit. But you can use an API key with the free tier and get 5 RPM and 100 RPD.
Wowfunhappy|7 months ago
It then does a bad job, which, like, makes sense if it's using the flash model.
sunaookami|7 months ago