Free Idempotent Rigs and Monoids

I’ve been having a lot of fun on Mathstodon lately, and here’s an example.

A rig R has a commutative associative addition, an associative multiplication that distributes over addition, an element 0 with r+0 = r and 0r = 0 = r0 for all r ∈ R and an element 1 with 1r = r = r1 for all r ∈ R

A rig is idempotent if r r = r for all r ∈ R.

Is the free idempotent rig on 2 generators finite? If so, how many elements does it have?

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