chore(free-tiers): retire stale Groq free-tier text and preset model; fix catalog header

open-sse/config/freeModelCatalog.data.ts

@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
-// AUTO-GENERATED — refreshed by the 2026-06-17 per-provider free-tier research pass.
-// 2026-07-20: added the free tiers of providers we could already route but had
-// never mapped (requesty, ovhcloud, agnes, glm), plus two new providers (navy,
-// aihorde), and reconciled kilo-gateway against its live /models list.
-// Source: _tasks/features-v3.8.28/free-tier-research-2026-06-17.raw.json (50-agent web research + adversarial verification).
+// HAND-CURATED free-tier catalog — there is no generator; edit the entries below directly.
+// Provenance: seeded by the 2026-06-17 per-provider free-tier research pass (50-agent web research +
+// adversarial verification); 2026-07-20 added the free tiers of providers we could already route but had
+// never mapped (requesty, ovhcloud, agnes, glm), plus two new providers (navy, aihorde), and reconciled
+// kilo-gateway against its live /models list; 2026-09-02 re-audited gemini, ollama-cloud, groq, nara and
+// mistral against the providers' own pages.
+// Evidence: every numeric block MUST carry an `// evidence:` comment naming its source class —
+//   public-page (a provider page anyone can read), api-public (an unauthenticated provider endpoint), or
+//   console-verified <date> por <who> (visible only inside an account console). No evidence ⇒ no number
+//   (the entry stays recurring-uncapped, monthlyTokens 0). Blocks that predate 2026-09-02 and still lack
+//   the comment inherit the 2026-06-17 research pass; add the comment whenever such a block is touched.
 // Methodology: honest pool-deduped recurring tokens. "recurring-uncapped" = permanently free but no
 // published token cap (rate/concurrency-limited) — NOT summed into the steady headline (see freeModelCatalog.ts).
 // Deposit-unlock boosts (e.g. OpenRouter $10 -> 1000 RPD) live in FREE_TIER_BOOSTS, not per-record.
-// Do not edit by hand — re-run the patch generator to refresh.
+// Bump FREE_CATALOG_CURATED_AT on every change to the entries below.
 import type { FreeModelBudget } from "./freeModelCatalog.ts";
 
 /**

open-sse/config/freeTierCatalog.ts

@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ export const FREE_TIER_BUDGETS: Record<string, number> = {
   "cloudflare-ai": 122_000_000,
   doubao: 60_000_000,
   cerebras: 30_000_000,
-  "api-airforce": 24_000_000,
   groq: 30_000_000,
+  "api-airforce": 24_000_000,
   bluesminds: 7_200_000,
   sambanova: 6_000_000,
   "arcee-ai": 4_800_000,

src/app/(dashboard)/dashboard/combos/page.tsx

@@ -2862,7 +2862,7 @@ function ComboFormModal({ isOpen, combo, onClose, onSave, activeProviders, combo
     { model: "if/qwen3-coder-plus", weight: 0 },
     { model: "if/deepseek-v3.2", weight: 0 },
     { model: "nvidia/llama-3.3-70b-instruct", weight: 0 },
-    { model: "groq/llama-3.3-70b-versatile", weight: 0 },
+    { model: "groq/openai/gpt-oss-120b", weight: 0 },
   ];
 
   const PAID_PREMIUM_PRESET_MODELS = [

src/shared/constants/providers/apikey/frontier-labs.ts

@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ export const APIKEY_PROVIDERS_FRONTIER = {
     textIcon: "GQ",
     website: "https://groq.com",
     hasFree: true,
-    freeNote: "Free tier: 30 RPM / 14.4K RPD — no credit card",
+    freeNote:
+      "Free plan: per-model caps (30 RPM · 1K RPD · 200K tokens/day per chat model, console.groq.com/docs/rate-limits) — no payment method on file.",
     serviceKinds: ["llm", "imageToText"],
   },
   blackbox: {

tests/unit/free-tier-reaudit-2026-09.test.ts

@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ import { FREE_TIER_BUDGETS } from "@omniroute/open-sse/config/freeTierCatalog.ts
 import { REGISTRY } from "@omniroute/open-sse/config/providerRegistry.ts";
 
 /**
- * 2026-09-02 re-audit against the providers' own pages
- * (_tasks/research/2026-09-02-freellmapi-7b4-claim/quotas-fonte-primaria.md).
- * Each test pins one verified fact so the catalog cannot drift back to an
- * invented number.
+ * 2026-09-02 re-audit against the providers' own pages — the official pages
+ * cited in the `// evidence:` comments next to each entry in
+ * `open-sse/config/freeModelCatalog.data.ts`. Each test pins one verified
+ * fact so the catalog cannot drift back to an invented number.
  */
 const rows = (id: string) => FREE_MODEL_BUDGETS.filter((m) => m.provider === id);
 const ids = (id: string) =>