GoFreeAltsAgent Stack Index

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What AI agents actually use.

Most-called tools, top harnesses, skills and MCP servers, free and brand-new open models, and the cheapest or fastest place to run them. Each row links to its source.

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Short guides from this data: Free LLM APIs · Cheapest DeepSeek V4.1 · OpenRouter alternatives

3 charts · 45 rows · week of 2026-10-28

Use

The tools, endpoints and MCP servers agents call.

No. 1 toolTinyFish1.42Mcalls in 7 days (Monid)

Tools agents call most

calls, 7 days

Calls routed through Monid, data through 2026-10-27. Free calls count 1/5. Only Monid traffic.

Source: monid.ai/rankings · checked · JSON

Most called endpoints

calls, 7 days

Source: monid.ai/rankings · checked · JSON

MCP servers agents are wired to

public GitHub repos using it

Count of public GitHub repos whose agent config includes the server today (favz census).

Source: favz.co/census/tools.csv · checked · JSON

6 charts · 92 rows · week of 2026-10-28

Build with

Harnesses, skills, templates and the marketplaces that list them.

No. 1 harnessClaude Code91.6usage score / 100

Agent harnesses by usage

usage score 0-100

Score = 35% OpenRouter app tokens + 35% npm/PyPI weekly downloads + 15% GitHub stars + 15% AgentGid score (log-scaled). OpenRouter only sees BYO-key traffic.

Source: github.com/ (stars) · api.npmjs.org · openrouter.ai/apps · agentgid.com · checked · JSON

Most installed agent skills

installs, all time

Source: skills.sh/ · checked · JSON

Trending skills today

installs, last 24h

skills.sh trending includes skills-shell/superpowers entries with near-identical counts (~20.3K each) — possible install inflation; flag before ranking.

Source: skills.sh/trending · checked · JSON

Skill & agent template repos

GitHub stars

Source: github.com/ · checked · JSON

Top OpenClaw skills (ClawHub)

downloads

Source: clawhub.ai/ · checked · JSON

Where agents find skills, tools & bots

Grok Bot (xAI harness, beta 2026-08-11) official template marketplace at x.ai/bot/marketplace plus community indexes; separate from Grok Build plugin marketplace and Grok Connectors.

Source: see each row · checked · JSON

5 charts · 71 rows · week of 2026-10-28

Run

Free and new open models, the cheapest or fastest place to run them, and who wins human votes.

No. 1 new open modelDeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-10173,480Hugging Face likes, 30 days

Free models right now

context window

OpenRouter ':free' variants: $0 in / $0 out, rate-limited. Free ends without notice.

Source: openrouter.ai/api/v1/models · checked · JSON

New open-weight models (30 days)

Hugging Face likes

Source: huggingface.co/models?sort=trending · checked · JSON

Best models by human votes (LMArena text)

Elo

Source: huggingface.co/datasets/lmarena-ai/leaderboard-dataset · checked · JSON

Open-weight labs: newest release

Source: huggingface.co/ · checked · JSON

Cheapest & fastest way to run new open models

$ per 1M tokens, blended 3:1 in:out

cheapest priciest providerblended $/1M, same log scale ($0.05 to $10) for every modelamber 4-bit quant or under 97% uptime

  • prism-ml/ternary-bonsai-2-9b1 provider
    CheapestDarkbloom$0.08 in / $0.13 outint499.5% up
    $0.0925only provider$0.0925
    Fastestno live speed data
  • deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-101736 providers
    CheapestSail Research$0.101 in / $0.15 outfp4100% up
    $0.11337.0× spread$0.7875
    Fastestbaseten104 tok/s · 4,841 ms to first token
  • nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl9 providers
    CheapestDarkbloom$0.06 in / $0.35 outnvfp499.8% up
    $0.13253.4× spread$0.45
    Fastestno live speed data
  • minimax/minimax-m3.1-flash13 providers
    CheapestStreamLake$0.135 in / $0.54 outfp894.2% up
    $0.23631.1× spread$0.2625
    Fastestnovita73 tok/s · 1,104 ms to first token
  • reflection/beam-1.0-501b-a23b5 providers
    CheapestNebius$0.25 in / $1.0 outfp4100% up
    $0.43751.4× spread$0.6
    Fastestbaseten299 tok/s · 355 ms to first token
  • moondream/moondream3-preview1 provider
    CheapestPrimeIntellect$0.3 in / $2.5 outfp8100% up
    $0.85only provider$0.85
    Fastestno live speed data
  • moondream/moondream3.1-9b-a2b1 provider
    CheapestPrimeIntellect$0.3 in / $2.5 outfp8100% up
    $0.85only provider$0.85
    Fastestno live speed data
  • meta/muse-spark-open6 providers
    CheapestMakora$1.25 in / $4.25 outfp4100% up
    $2.01.0× spread$2.0
    Fastestbaseten113 tok/s · 295 ms to first token

Cheapest = lowest blended price on OpenRouter (check quant + uptime). Speed = Hugging Face router live throughput; not every model has it.

Source: openrouter.ai/api/v1/models/{id}/endpoints · router.huggingface.co/v1/models · checked · JSON

1 chart · 30 rows · week of 2026-10-28

Money

Latest public revenue run-rates of AI companies.

No. 1 by revenueAnthropic$65.0Brun-rate per year

AI companies by revenue run-rate

USD per year

Latest public figure per company; dates and metric types differ (ARR, run-rate, quarterly ×4). Not strictly comparable.

Source: per row (CNBC, Reuters, The Information, filings…) · checked · JSON

1 chart · 12 rows · week of 2026-10-28

On X

What builders claimed on X this week. Leads, not verified facts.

Most-liked post@deepseek_ai43.3Klikes · a lead, not a fact

On X this week

likes

Claims seen on X. Leads, not verified facts: a number only moves into the tables above after we check the official source.

Source: x.com/ (read-only search by our X researcher) · checked · JSON

Data snapshot 2026-10-28. Rankings never change for payment. Spotted something wrong? Each row links to where the number came from.