fix(free-tiers): retire 4 re-verified-dead free tiers, flag iflytek/sparkdesk ToS, clarify monsterapi one-time (#4152)

Case-by-case follow-up on the 2026-06-17 refresh deferred items. Each dead tier was
re-verified against its official source on 2026-06-18 before flipping (qwen-web lesson):

- aimlapi -> hasFree:false. docs.aimlapi.com/faq/free-tier states "The Free Tier is
  currently paused"; now pay-as-you-go (min $20 top-up).
- gitlawb + gitlawb-gmi -> hasFree:false. Free MiMo revoked 2026-05-24 (GitHub
  Gitlawb/openclaude#1345 "OPENGATEWAY REVOKED THE ONLY 1 FREE MODEL"); Nemotron promo
  ended 2026-06; Opengateway is now a pay-as-you-go credit gateway. Removed 40 stale
  gitlawb-gmi catalog records.
- yi -> hasFree:false. Yi-Light retired; platform.01.ai is pay-as-you-go (Yi-Lightning
  paid); open weights are download-only. Removed 1 stale catalog record.
- iflytek / sparkdesk -> kept hasFree:true with a ToS-caution freeNote: Spark Lite is
  free but the ToS prohibits programmatic extraction / relay to third parties (iflytek
  also requires Chinese real-name auth).
- monsterapi -> freeNote tightened to "one-time signup trial" (recurring plan = 0
  credits/mo); the budget catalog already classified it one-time-initial.

The dead providers stay registered (paid use still works); only the free-tier
advertisement is removed. FREE_TIERS.md "Removed" note + budget table reconciled.

Tests: gitlawb-provider guard updated (hasFree now false for both gitlawb variants);
discontinued-providers-2026 extended to cover the 4 new flips + an iflytek ToS-caution
assertion. Re-verified live 2026-06-18 (Hard Rule #18).
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Diego Rodrigues de Sa e Souza
2026-06-18 03:46:52 -03:00
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@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Biggest **documented** contributors: `mistral` 1.00B, `llm7` 150M, `longcat` 150
A 50-agent web-research pass (official docs + last-7-days news, adversarially verified) refreshed the whole catalog. Highlights:
- **Removed (discontinued / shut down in 2026):** `chutes` (free tier ended 2026-03), `phind` (company shut down 2026-01), `kluster` (sunset 2026-06-09 → MITO), `glhf` (beta ended), `gitlawb` (free model revoked 2026-05-24), `aimlapi` / `theoldllm` / `featherless-ai` (no current free tier).
- **Removed / no free tier (2026):** `chutes` (free tier ended 2026-03), `phind` (company shut down 2026-01), `kluster` (sunset 2026-06-09 → MITO), `glhf` (beta ended), `gitlawb` + `gitlawb-gmi` (MiMo free revoked 2026-05-24, Nemotron promo ended 2026-06 — re-verified 2026-06-18), `aimlapi` (free tier paused — re-verified 2026-06-18), `yi` (Yi-Light retired, pay-as-you-go — re-verified 2026-06-18), `theoldllm` / `featherless-ai` (no current free tier). `iflytek` / `sparkdesk` stay listed but carry a ToS-caution note (Spark Lite is free; the ToS restricts proxy/relay use).
- **GitHub Models** — closed to **new** customers on 2026-06-16; existing accounts keep API/playground access, so it stays in the catalog with a note (not removed).
- **Gemini** — `2.0 Flash` / `2.0 Flash-Lite` shut down 2026-06-01 and `2.5 Pro` left the free tier (2026-04); free tier is now **Flash-family only** (2.5/3/3.1/3.5 Flash + Gemma). The catalog now **pools** the Flash family (was inflated by counting each variant separately: 462M → 60M).
- **Corrected numbers:** `cloudflare-ai` 122M → **30M** (real 10k-Neurons/day), `doubao` reclassified as a one-time signup credit (not recurring), `llm7` 4M → **150M** (documented 5M tokens/day), `together` "-Free" endpoints discontinued → only the **$25** signup credit remains, `longcat` retired 6 legacy models → **LongCat-2.0-Preview** only.
@@ -230,7 +230,6 @@ A 50-agent web-research pass (official docs + last-7-days news, adversarially ve
| `freemodel-dev` | keyless | — | — | unknown | 4 |
| `friendliai` | keyless | — | — | avoid | 2 |
| `gemini-cli` | keyless | — | — | avoid | 9 |
| `gitlawb-gmi` | keyless | — | — | ambiguous | 40 |
| `hackclub` | keyless | — | — | caution | 3 |
| `iflytek` | keyless | — | — | avoid | 1 |
| `inference-net` | keyless | — | — | caution | 3 |
@@ -251,7 +250,6 @@ A 50-agent web-research pass (official docs + last-7-days news, adversarially ve
| `stepfun` | keyless | — | — | ok | 1 |
| `t3-web` | keyless | — | — | avoid | 23 |
| `uncloseai` | keyless | — | — | caution | 3 |
| `yi` | keyless | — | — | unknown | 1 |
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