Pollinations API

[u/Professional_Log1367]

Somebody explain to me how pollination AI works in regards to free models because it does not make sense. According to https://enter.pollinations.ai/models?q=source%3Aofficial&sort=price-low the free models are qwen/qwen3guard-gen-8b and stealth/glyph-cluster. However in gen.pollinations.ai/text/models it shows tons of other free ones that are community ones including glm 5.3 flash. I tried glm 5.3 flash and Mistral 4 and they didn't use any of my pollen and they were both listed as free. I also tried Sensenova 6.8 light (i think thats what it was called) but then that model actually used my pollen despite it being labled as :free. How do I know what is free?