Free, and an honest accounting of what free is buying you.
'Free' is doing an enormous amount of work in most AI marketing. It can mean free forever, free until the credits run out, free until the trial expires, free if you already own a graphics card worth more than a laptop, or free but filtered so thoroughly that the thing you wanted to ask is the one thing it will not answer.
This page ranks the options that are free in a way you would recognise as free, and it states the catch on every one of them, including ours. Two of the entries are not OpenRogue at all, and one is listed specifically so its exclusion is explained rather than quietly arranged around.
Uncensored is a hard requirement here, not a bonus. A free assistant that refuses the question is not a cheaper version of an uncensored one — it is a different product that happens to share a text box.
No trial countdown, no expiring promotional credits, no quiet downgrade in three weeks. If the free thing stops being free on a date, it is a trial and it is labelled as one below.
Trained without the refusal layer, not a filtered model coaxed past its rules. Jailbreaks are free too, in the sense that a thing that stops working is free.
Anything that takes payment details up front to start a free tier is not competing in the same category as something that does not.
Running weights yourself is genuinely free per message and genuinely expensive per machine. Options with a hardware prerequisite are ranked with that cost stated, not hidden behind the word 'free'.
Free tiers backed by a business that intends to sell you something are more durable than free tiers backed by someone's promotional budget. That is not cynicism — it is the most reliable predictor of whether a thing survives.
This is a page about cost. It ranks by what you can get for nothing, not by what is best overall — the flagship models are mostly not free, and pretending otherwise would make this list useless. For a ranking that ignores price entirely, read the overall model ranking. For running weights on your own machine, which is the serious long-term answer to this question, there is a whole page on it.
| Rank and name | Real cost | What limits you | Filtered? | Setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Dolphin Venice | Free plan, no card | Daily message allowance | No | None — open a browser |
| 2. Lunaris | Free plan, no card | Daily message allowance | No | None — open a browser |
| 3. Local weights | Free after hardware | Your VRAM | No | Real — an afternoon, minimum |
| 4. Venice AI | Free tier available | Tier limits | No | None — open a browser |
| 5. Trial credits | Free until credits expire | Credit balance and clock | Varies by model | API keys, some code |
| 6. ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude free | Free tier | Usage caps | Yes — heavily | None |
The most capable genuinely uncensored model you can use for nothing in a browser.
Dolphin is the project that made 'uncensored fine-tune' a category, and the Venice Edition built with Venice.ai on Mistral Small 24B is the version worth using. The guardrails were removed at training time rather than bolted over afterward, which is why it answers a direct question directly instead of producing a paragraph of apology and a suggestion that you consult a professional.
At 24B it is comfortably the largest model on this list you can reach without hardware or a card, and it is fast enough for genuine back-and-forth. It is the default on OpenRogue's Free plan for exactly that reason: it is the entry that makes the free tier worth having rather than a demo.
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Pick this if: Trying uncensored AI properly before deciding whether it is worth paying for. · Full Dolphin Venice page
The fastest free option, with the shortest memory.
The other model on OpenRogue's free tier is Sao10K's Llama 3 8B merge, and it exists for a different job than Dolphin. Where Dolphin is the capable free default, Lunaris is the instant one: short, blunt answers that arrive faster than you can read them, which suits quick questions and phone sessions.
The trade is memory. An 8K context window is small enough that a long conversation will visibly forget its own beginning. Used for what it is good at — fast pings, casual scenes, a sanity check on an idea — that limitation rarely comes up.
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Pick this if: Fast questions and casual scenes where speed matters more than depth. · Full Lunaris page
Free per message forever, once you have paid for the machine.
The most durable answer to 'free uncensored AI' is downloading the weights. Uncensored fine-tunes are published openly, a runner like Ollama or LM Studio installs in minutes, and after that every message costs you electricity and nothing else. No allowance, no account, no company that can change the terms.
It is ranked third rather than first because the word 'free' is carrying a graphics card. An 8B model runs on a modest laptop; a 12B tune wants a mainstream gaming card; a 70B wants hardware most people do not own. The honest framing is that local is free the way a home gym is free.
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Pick this if: People with a capable GPU who would rather own the setup than rent it.
A genuine free tier from a platform with the same philosophy.
Venice proved there was a real market for AI without filters, and it runs a free tier on open models with a privacy-first, local-storage design. If your priority is that conversation history never lives on someone else's server, its architecture is a better fit than an account-synced product like this one.
The trade-offs are scope. Venice is open-model-only, so the frontier tier is not part of the offer, and browser-local history means your conversations do not follow you to another device. Both are deliberate design choices rather than gaps, and for some people they are the reason to choose it.
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Pick this if: People whose hard requirement is that history stays on their own machine.
Real, useful, and on a timer. Plan accordingly.
Inference providers and aggregators routinely hand out starter credits, and some expose free-tier model slots. Used deliberately this is a good deal: enough headroom to evaluate several models properly, including uncensored ones, without committing to anything.
It is ranked last among the working options because it fails the durability test on purpose. Credits expire, free slots get rate-limited or retired, and the setup is API-shaped rather than chat-shaped — you are managing keys, not opening a tab. Treat it as an evaluation budget, not a home.
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Pick this if: Evaluating several models seriously before choosing where to settle.
Free, generous, capable — and the reason you are reading this page.
These are listed so their absence from the ranking is explained rather than quietly arranged around. The mainstream free tiers are good products: fast, capable, well-integrated, and free in the plainest sense of the word. On any list that was only about cost and quality they would place near the top.
They fail the first criterion instead. Each applies a single global content policy through training and moderation, which means adult questions, dark fiction, blunt medical or legal detail and a long tail of ordinary curiosity get refused, hedged or reframed. That is not a bug in their design; it is their design.
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Pick this if: Everything that does not collide with a content policy, which is most things.
For most people the answer is Dolphin Mistral 24B Venice Edition on a free account: it needs no card, no hardware and no setup, it is uncensored at the training level rather than filtered-and-coaxed, and it is capable enough that the free tier is a real product rather than a teaser. Lunaris sits beside it for when speed matters more than depth.
If you already own a capable GPU, the honest recommendation is different: download the weights. Local is more work and a worse experience on every axis except the two that matter most to some people — nothing leaves your machine, and nobody can change the deal later. This site sells the hosted version, so read that recommendation with the appropriate scepticism and then take it anyway if it fits you.
It is a cap, and anyone using it seriously will meet it. The paid tiers exist and the free tier exists partly to introduce them — saying so plainly seems better than describing a limit as a feature.
Magnum v4, Hermes 3 405B, the 131K-context models and deep-reasoning mode all sit above the free tier. The free plan is a real product, not the whole product.
Your messages are processed on someone else's servers. If that is unacceptable, local weights are the answer and no free hosted tier will ever be.
Free AI is subsidised by something — a subscription business, an API funnel, or a research budget. Understanding which one tells you how long a given free tier is likely to last.
For browser use with no card and no hardware, Dolphin Mistral 24B Venice Edition on OpenRogue's free plan — it is uncensored at the fine-tune level and capable enough for real work. If you own a decent GPU, running open weights locally with Ollama or LM Studio is free per message forever and gives you complete privacy.
Not on any hosted service. Free tiers carry a daily or monthly allowance because inference costs the provider money on every message. The only genuinely unlimited option is running weights on hardware you own, where the cost is paid up front in the graphics card rather than per message.
No. OpenRogue's free plan requires no payment details, and local model runners require no account at all. Be wary of anything that asks for a card to start a free tier — that is usually a trial with a clock rather than a free tier.
You can, briefly. A jailbreak fights the model's training and stops working when the provider patches it, which happens continuously. An uncensored model has no refusal behaviour to route around, so it answers consistently — and it does not put your account at risk of a terms violation.
On hosted services, a message allowance and access to the smaller models rather than the flagships. Locally, the graphics card and an afternoon of setup. Anything advertised as free with no catch at all is usually running on expiring promotional credits.