5 free tools, models + courses to ship AI for ₹0

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1 · HOOK

5 free tools, models + courses to ship AI for ₹0

Frontier + open-weight catalog with India availability flags.
2 · CONTEXT

What you'll find

Frontier + open-weight catalog with India availability flags. Sorted to surface the most useful first.
3 · NUMBER
₹50
Z.ai: GLM 5 — per million tokens
4 · QUOTE
"The simplest way to get free inference"
— Free Models Router, OpenRouter
5 · MYTH

You need GPT-4 for serious work.

Actually: Z.ai: GLM 5: GLM-5 is Z.ai’s flagship open-source foundation model engineered for complex systems design and long-horizon agent workf
6 · COMPARE

Aider vs Untested

Aider: 4.5/5
Untested: use at risk
7 · TRUE BUT INCOMPLETE
Z.ai: GLM 5 ships, but evaluate on YOUR task before committing.
8 · CLOSER

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