[fazza999]

Old, retired developer here. I'm interested in tally for my use-case but don't want to spend any money or little money on the AI. What are my free cheap AI options?

[alwillis]

The models from China are good and very cheap (or free) on OpenRouter; I can recommend Qwen and Kimi K2.

Here's Qwen3 Coder [1]

[1]: https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-coder:free

[jansan]

I recently found out that my teenage son has about 20 Google accounts. Needed them for his homework he said.

[RevEng]

That sounds very suspicious.

[xtiansimon]

Unless he's using it for storage! haha. Then it's cheap.

[jdoconnor]

Gemini (Google) has a good-enough-for-personal-projects free tier. Openrouter has free models (I'm assuming the training data is valuable enough to keep this going for a while)

[siscia]

You don't need AI for it.

You can just install the tool and use it. It is a CLI with very verbose output. Verbose output is good for both humans and AI.