vava-nessa/free-coding-models v0.5.93 on GitHub

Mistral provider fully revived (PR #185 by @Sy57em1). The 2026-09-15 audit had rewritten every Mistral model id into a date-stamped form the API does not accept, so since v0.5.92 all 9 Mistral models returned 400 invalid_model and the whole provider was dead. Every id was re-verified against the live GET https://api.mistral.ai/v1/models on a real Experiment-plan key:
- Restored: mistral-medium-3-5, magistral-medium-latest (moved to A+), mistral-small-2603, ministral-14b-2512, ministral-8b-2512, ministral-3b-2512
- Removed: Mistral Large 3 (no large model exists upstream at all), Z.ai GLM 5.2 (403 tier_not_allowed, paid tier only, never belonged in a free catalog), Mistral Small Creative (absent from the live catalog)
- ministral-3b-2512 context window corrected 256k to 128k, taken from the model's real max_context_length
- Router daemon test updated to route through a model that exists

"What does free mean here?" is now documented everywhere (issue #186). Free is a property of the (provider, model) pair, never of the provider: a row is listed only when that exact model id costs $0 through that specific provider, verified live. The same open-weights model can be free on one host and paid on another. New content:
- docs/providers.md: full explainer section with the three-badge legend, generated by scripts/generate-provider-table.mjs so it cannot drift
- README: summary paragraph in the Providers section
- Web Dashboard models page: quota badge tooltips plus a legend line under the table, matching the badge colors (Free = recurring $0 tier, Limited = depleting allowance, Metered = $0-priced passthrough)
@Sy57em1 added to the contributors lists.

Docs counts refreshed after the audit and the Mistral fix: 24 providers / 251 live models (was displaying a stale 228), README top-8 provider table regenerated from sources.js.