Agentic coding tools ranked by free-tier access to pro-grade models

3 codeclimber 6 8/4/2025, 8:06:16 PM github.com ↗

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codeclimber · 31m ago
Trying to track which agentic tools (both IDEs and CLIs) give free access to pro-grade LLMs (Claude Sonnet/Opus 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Grok 4, OpenAI o3, etc). May be gaps or mistakes - feedback welcome.
codeclimber · 1h ago
For this list, “pro-grade” = Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude Sonnet 4 (Opus where noted), and OpenAI o3 / GPT-4o(4.1). Models like Gemini Flash and OpenAI o4-mini are treated as fallback/mini and aren’t counted in the pro-grade ranking.
imasl42 · 1h ago
My Gemini CLI quota for Gemini 2.5 Pro gets used up way faster than the ~100 h/day math. I’m seeing <1 hour of coding before it auto-switches to Flash. Anyone else experiencing it?
codeclimber · 1h ago
I haven’t personally run into the fallback to Flash (probably because I mostly use Claude Code now). Curious if others using Gemini CLI are seeing the same: does the switch to Flash happen after less than an hour of coding with Gemini 2.5 Pro? Going to dig a bit and see if this is a common pattern.
drewbitt · 2h ago
codeclimber · 1h ago
Thanks, added Warp to the list with the following data:

Up to 150 AI requests/month → about 15 coding hours/month (assuming 10 req/hour) with frontier models. The Free plan explicitly supports frontier models like Claude Sonnet 4, OpenAI o3, and Gemini 2.5 Pro.

That puts Warp at #2 on the list, right below Gemini CLI.