tai/research/free-model-discovery/pollinations-text-models.md

Pollinations text model list

Metadata

Field	Value
Institute	Molodetz Institute — Research & Retrieval Division
Subject	free-model-discovery
Document type	Source Dossier
Tier	1
Source title	Pollinations text model list
Source URL	https://text.pollinations.ai/models
Source publisher / author	Pollinations
Source type	vendor docs
Source date (published)	Unknown — not stated
Date researched	2026-10-12
Researched by	tai (agent), model: Claude Sonnet 5, on behalf of retoor
Research method	direct page fetch
Confidence	Medium
Status	Active

Summary

JSON array with a tier per model. The OpenAI-style path /openai/v1/models returned an unrelated chat-style text answer, not a list, so it cannot be used for discovery.

Key findings

• 2026-10-12 only one model had tier anonymous: openai-fast (GPT-OSS 20B reasoning), aliases include openai.
• A chat completion against /openai/v1/chat/completions with model openai-fast succeeded without a key.
• gen.pollinations.ai/v1/models lists many more models with pollen pricing, i.e. not anonymous-free.

Pros / strengths

Live, machine-readable, and the same endpoint tai calls at runtime, so what it reports is what a request will actually see.

Cons / limitations / caveats

Tier semantics are Pollinations' own and can change; only one anonymous model exists today, so discovery returns a list of one.

Relevance to tai

The static default openai was an alias; discovery now returns the real anonymous-tier names with openai-fast as fallback.

Changelog

Date	Change
2026-10-12	Initial dossier created.