Free LLM API resources

This lists various services that provide free access or credits towards API-based LLM usage.

[!NOTE]
Please don't abuse these services, else we might lose them.

[!WARNING]
This list explicitly excludes any services that are not legitimate (eg reverse engineers an existing chatbot)

Free Providers

OpenRouter

Limits:

20 requests/minute50 requests/dayUp to 1000 requests/day with $10 lifetime topup

Models share a common quota.

Google AI Studio

Data is used for training when used outside of the UK/CH/EEA/EU.

NVIDIA NIM

Phone number verification required. Models tend to be context window limited.

Limits: 40 requests/minute

Mistral (La Plateforme)

  • Free tier (Experiment plan) requires opting into data training
  • Requires phone number verification.

Limits: Set per-model and per-organization — check your limits page. As of July 2026 a new free account sees anywhere from 25,000 to 20,000,000 tokens/minute and 0.03 to 12.5 requests/second depending on the model.

Mistral (Codestral)

  • Currently free to use
  • Monthly subscription based
  • Requires phone number verification

Limits: 30 requests/minute, 2,000 requests/day

  • Codestral

HuggingFace Inference Providers

HuggingFace Serverless Inference limited to models smaller than 10GB. Some popular models are supported even if they exceed 10GB.

Limits: $0.10/month in credits

  • Various open models across supported providers

Vercel AI Gateway

Routes to various supported providers.

The free tier covers a subset of the model catalogue, with per-model rate limits.

Limits: $5/month

Kilo Gateway

OpenAI-compatible gateway routing to various providers. Free models work without an account.

All free models may use your prompts for training.

Limits: 200 requests/hour per IP, shared across all free models

  • Cohere North Mini Code
  • Kilo Auto Free (Router)
  • Kwaipilot KAT-Coder-Pro V2.5
  • Ling 3.0 Flash
  • NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B (Reasoning)
  • NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B
  • NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B
  • NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety
  • OpenRouter Free Models (Router)
  • Poolside Laguna M.1
  • Poolside Laguna S 2.1
  • Poolside Laguna XS 2.1
  • StepFun Step 3.7 Flash

OpenCode Zen

AI gateway with curated models.

Free models may use data for improvement.

  • Big Pickle
  • DeepSeek V4 Flash Free
  • MiMo-V2.5 Free
  • Laguna S 2.1 Free
  • Ling-3.0-flash Free
  • North Mini Code Free
  • Nemotron 3 Ultra Free

Cerebras

Groq

Cohere

Limits:

20 requests/minute1,000 requests/month

Models share a common monthly quota.

  • c4ai-aya-expanse-32b
  • c4ai-aya-vision-32b
  • command-a-03-2025
  • command-a-plus-05-2026
  • command-a-reasoning-08-2025
  • command-a-translate-08-2025
  • command-a-vision-07-2025
  • command-r-08-2024
  • command-r-plus-08-2024
  • command-r7b-12-2024
  • command-r7b-arabic-02-2025

Cloudflare Workers AI

Limits: 10,000 neurons/day

  • @cf/aisingapore/gemma-sea-lion-v4-27b-it
  • @cf/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it
  • @cf/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro
  • @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
  • @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code
  • @cf/nvidia/nemotron-3-120b-a12b
  • @cf/openai/gpt-oss-120b
  • @cf/openai/gpt-oss-20b
  • @cf/qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8
  • @cf/zai-org/glm-4.7-flash
  • @cf/zai-org/glm-5.2
  • DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
  • Gemma 2B Instruct (LoRA)
  • Gemma 7B Instruct (LoRA)
  • Llama 2 7B Chat (LoRA)
  • Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (FP8)
  • Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct
  • Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
  • Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
  • Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (FP8)
  • Llama 4 Scout Instruct
  • Llama Guard 3 8B
  • Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 (LoRA)
  • Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
  • Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
  • Qwen QwQ 32B

Providers with trial credits

Fireworks

Credits: $1

Models: Various open models

Baseten

Credits: $30

Models: Any supported model - pay by compute time

Nebius

Credits: $1

Models: Various open models

Novita

Credits: $0.5 for 1 year

Models: Various open models

AI21

Credits: $10 for 3 months

Models: Jamba family of models

Upstage

Credits: $10 for 3 months

Models: Solar Pro/Mini

NLP Cloud

Credits: $15

Requirements: Phone number verification

Models: Various open models

Alibaba Cloud (International) Model Studio

Credits: 1 million tokens/model, valid for 90 days (Singapore endpoint only)

Models: Various open and proprietary Qwen models

Modal

Credits: $30/month on the Starter plan

Models: Any supported model - pay by compute time

Inference.net

Credits: $1, $25 on responding to email survey

Models: Various open models

Hyperbolic

Credits: $1

Models:

  • DeepSeek V3 0324
  • Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
  • deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-0528
  • qwen/qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct

SambaNova Cloud

Credits: $5 for 3 months

Models:

  • deepseek-v3.1
  • deepseek-v3.2
  • gemma-4-31b-it
  • gpt-oss-120b
  • meta-llama-3.3-70b-instruct
  • minimax-m2.7

Scaleway Generative APIs

Credits: 1,000,000 free tokens, plus 60 minutes of audio transcription

Models:

  • BGE-Multilingual-Gemma2
  • Gemma 3 27B Instruct
  • Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
  • Pixtral 12B (2409)
  • Whisper Large v3
  • devstral-2-123b-instruct-2512
  • gemma-4-26b-a4b-it
  • glm-5.2
  • gpt-oss-120b
  • holo2-30b-a3b
  • mistral-medium-3.5-128b
  • mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506
  • qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507
  • qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct
  • qwen3-embedding-8b
  • qwen3.5-397b-a17b
  • qwen3.6-35b-a3b
  • voxtral-small-24b-2507