Free AI chat with more than one model
Our free plan carries 21 AI models from 11 different labs. What it covers, where it stops, and when a second opinion beats a better answer.
Free AI chat with more than one model
Ravi has until Friday to sign a tenancy agreement, and clause 9 has beaten him four times. Nine lines about the deposit, one reference to "reasonable wear", and a closing sentence that appears to hand the decision to the landlord. He cannot tell whether he has understood it correctly.
So he uploads the fourteen-page PDF into an AI chat and asks what clause 9 commits him to. Twenty seconds later he has an answer that is clear, confident, neatly organised and completely unverifiable by him. That is the awkward middle of using AI for anything that matters. The answer arrives faster than your ability to judge it.
A free plan built around one model handles that moment badly. Asked again, it will tell you roughly the same thing in slightly different words, with the same confidence and the same blind spots. The version of free AI chat that earns its place on your phone is the one where the second opinion comes from somewhere else entirely.
Twenty-one models, eleven labs
Our free plan carries twenty-one models drawn from eleven different labs: OpenAI, Google, Meta, Mistral, Alibaba, DeepSeek, Z.ai, Amazon, Nvidia, Inception and InclusionAI. The names you would recognise are in there, GPT-5.4 Nano and GPT-OSS 120B, three generations of Gemini Flash Lite, Llama 4 Maverick, Mistral Small 4, Qwen3 235B, DeepSeek V4 Flash and GLM 5.3 Flash, with the rest filling in around them. The roster moves as new releases land, so the count is the durable part and the line-up on any given morning is not.
Nobody needs twenty-one models. What the breadth buys you is a second reading from a team that trained on different data and formed different habits about what to hedge. That is the one thing a single-vendor free tier cannot hand you however generous it gets. Ask Gemini, then ask Gemini again, and you have asked once.
Ravi's fourteen pages are nowhere near any of their ceilings. Every free model here will hold a document that size inside a single conversation without trimming it down first, and most of them have room for several more like it. Document length was never going to be his problem.
Fifteen of the twenty-one also accept an image, which in ordinary use means a photo of a printed page, a screenshot of a settings menu you cannot navigate, or the label on the back of something you are about to buy. Those are the questions people actually bring to a phone, and none of them require a paid account here.
Ravi asks the same question twice
He switches models inside the same conversation. The thread carries over, so he does not repaste the situation or re-explain what he is worried about; only the model answering changes. The PDF itself is the one thing that does not travel everywhere. Four of the twenty-one free models read PDFs directly, GPT-5.4 Nano and the three Gemini Flash Lite entries, so for the rest he pastes the nine lines of clause 9 into the message. For a single clause that is the better move anyway, since it stops the model wandering off into page eleven.
What he is doing here has a name in the abstract, but in the moment it is much simpler than the name makes it sound. He asks the same question of a model built by somebody else and watches where the two answers stop matching.
The second model agrees about the deposit and reads the notice period differently. That disagreement turns out to be worth more to him than either answer was on its own, because it tells him exactly which sentence to stop trusting. He takes the notice period to a third model, GLM 5.3 Flash, one of the free ones that will show you its reasoning as it works, and asks it to go through the wording line by line. Free accounts do not get the reasoning effort control at all, and on six of the free models, GLM 5.3 Flash among them, the app caps the effort it picks for itself at medium, so he is not seeing that model at full stretch. For reading one paragraph of a lease, medium is plenty.
Twelve minutes in he has two readings that agree on the deposit, one flagged sentence, and a single precise question to put to the landlord before Friday. No legal opinion, and he was never going to get one from a chat app at any price. The question is the deliverable.
Ask what a free plan still gives you in the third month. That is the number worth knowing.
Where the free plan stops
Here is the straight version, because the vague one helps nobody. A free account gets fifty messages a day, refilled every twenty-four hours from your last reset. If you have not made an account at all, you get ten messages to try the thing, and those ten do not refill.
Attachments run to one image or PDF per message, up to 10MB, three uploads a day. Ravi's lease used one of his three.
Image generation and web search each run to two uses every thirty days, counted against your account rather than the device you happen to be holding. Free image generation goes through Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, one image at a time. Web search needs you signed in, and two searches a month covers the one fact you actually care about checking. It will not carry a research project, and we would rather say so here than let you find out in week two.
Saved memories and folders are paid. So are thirty-nine of our sixty active models, including Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, GPT-5.6 Terra and Gemini 3.7 Flash. If your reason for being here is Claude specifically, the free plan will not get you there, and it is better to know that on the way in than four days later.
Running out, and what it looks like
When you reach one of those limits, the app says so and names the limit you reached. Hitting a cap does not quietly reroute the conversation to some other model and leave you believing you are still talking to the one you picked. That distinction matters more than it sounds: a message cap you can see is something you can work around, while a silent swap turns every answer you get afterwards into a guess about which model wrote it.
The daily allowance is the one that comes back on its own, without anything being asked of you in return. There is no fourteen-day countdown attached to any of this, no card on file, and no month three where the free plan quietly becomes a paid one. The free tier is a plan we intend to keep serving, which is also why its limits are set where they are rather than somewhere more flattering.
So, is free enough?
For the version of the problem Ravi had on a Wednesday night, comfortably. Three models, one document, a dozen messages out of fifty, and a better question than the one he started with. He never touched a paid feature and never needed to.
The honest read is that a free multi-model plan is worth keeping permanently if your AI use is occasional and consequential: a handful of real questions a week that you would rather have checked twice than answered once. That describes more people than the industry likes to admit, and it is a perfectly good place to sit.
It stops being enough the moment AI moves from something you reach for when stuck to something you work inside. At that point the things free does not carry start to bite: memories that hold on to your project between sessions, unmetered web search, and the frontier models that are genuinely stronger at hard reasoning rather than merely different in temperament. That is what the paid plans are for, and if you want the comparison habit taken further than three free models will take it, running one prompt across several models is where it goes next.
Most people find that line by walking into it, which is fine. Nothing expires while they do.