Hey Reader,

Four reads this week. The first two go together: where the free AI models actually are, and how to put Claude Code in charge of them.

110 free AI models, and what each one actually costs you

Sixteen providers hand out real API access right now. Not trials. Free tiers, running today.

The catch is that "free" is doing different work at each one. Somewhere it means twenty requests a minute and then you're throttled. Somewhere else it means your prompts are training data. And some models are just gone one morning with no notice.

Which is why the list is probed live instead of copied off sixteen marketing pages. ~110 free models, ranked by what's genuinely free, and the specific catch each provider buries.

See the list →

Put Claude Code in charge of the free pool

A pile of free models isn't worth much on its own. Something has to decide what goes where.

Make that something Claude Code. It reads the task, drops the grunt work down to the free pool, and spends real budget only where judgment is involved. Sixteen free tiers stacked behind one endpoint, with the expensive model deciding what's beneath it.

Claude Code stays the brain. It stops being the typist.

Read the setup →

Give Claude Code a full product team

Different problem this time.

If your work moves through GitHub issues, the code is rarely what slows you down. It's the scaffolding around it. Writing the PRD. Splitting it into stories. Sizing the sprint. Arguing with yourself about what ships first. Remembering to check the QA.

WoterClip gives each issue to a persona agent that owns that role. This one walks importing a 13-role product team – PRD writer, story writer, sprint manager, prioritization, QA, risk, roadmap, OKR, release – and getting your first heartbeat running in about five minutes.

Meet the team →

WoterClip v0.2.0: GitHub Issues replaces Linear

And the change that made the above possible. v0.2.0 drops Linear for GitHub Issues. No MCP, no external tracker, just the gh CLI already sitting on your machine.

One warning if you ran v1: a few concept mappings fail silently when you migrate. Silently is the worst way for anything to fail, so they're all written out in the post with the config changes next to them.

See what changed →

Reply and tell me which one was the read for you. I read every reply.

– Alex

Alex Kim builds with Claude Code every day. He wrote WoterClip, the open-source plugin that hands your GitHub issues to AI agents, and built Flow and Echo.

P.S. – The conversations behind reads like these happen in the WotAI Skool community. 760+ builders, three live calls a week, free to jump in.