Always-free quotaNo card
GroqCloud
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Free model APIs.
Without the fine print.
Find hosted LLMs, embeddings, speech, image, and research APIs you can actually use—clearly separated from trials and marketing fluff.
Verified Aug 21, 2026 · 76 current offers
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38ongoing or recurring offers
7community / conditional
31trials / promotions
20under review
37no-free records
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Useful before your first invoice
High-confidence, recurring offers with practical model access. Limits still apply.
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Always-free quotaNo card
Google AI Studio / Gemini Developer API
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Always-free quotaNo card
Cloudflare Workers AI
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Free model routesNo card
OpenRouter
24 model routes currently listed at zero price.
Verified catalog
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Always-free quotaNo card
Arli AI
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Always-free quotaNo card
AwanLLM
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Always-free quotaNo card
Cartesia
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Always-free quotaNo card
Cloudflare Workers AI
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Always-free quotaNo card
ElevenLabs API
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Always-free quotaNo card
FreeInference.org
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Always-free quotaNo card
Google AI Studio / Gemini Developer API
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Always-free quotaNo card
GroqCloud
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Always-free quotaNo card
Jina Reader and anonymous utility APIs
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Always-free quotaNo card
LLM7
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Free model routesNo card
BazaarLink
2 model routes currently listed at zero price.
Free model routesNo card
Kilo AI Gateway
15 model routes currently listed at zero price.
Free model routesNo card
LLM.API
1 model route currently listed at zero price.
Free model routesNo card
Mancer AI
1 model route currently listed at zero price.
Free model routesNo card
Nous Research / Nous Portal
7 model routes currently listed at zero price.
Free model routesNo card
OpenRouter
24 model routes currently listed at zero price.
Free model routesNo card
OrcaRouter
4 model routes currently listed at zero price.
Free model routesNo card
Requesty LLM Gateway
12 model routes currently listed at zero price.
Free model routesNo card
Z.AI Model API
3 model routes currently listed at zero price.
Always-free quota
IBM watsonx.ai Runtime
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Free model routesNo card
Api.Airforce
Named model routes currently listed at zero price.
Free model routes
FastRouter
5 model routes currently listed at zero price.
Always-free quotaNo card
Logfare
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Monthly creditsNo card
Hugging Face Inference Providers
$0.1 in credits refresh on a published schedule.
Monthly creditsNo card
Lightning AI Model APIs / litAI
$15 in credits refresh on a published schedule.
Monthly creditsNo card
Mistral Studio / La Plateforme
$10 in credits refresh on a published schedule.
Monthly creditsNo card
Vercel AI Gateway
$5 in credits refresh on a published schedule.
Always-free quotaNo card
DreamPrompting
A recurring no-cost API allowance with provider-published access terms.
Free model routes
OVHcloud AI Endpoints
7 model routes currently listed at zero price.
Free model routesNo card
Waterfall
28 model routes currently listed at zero price.
Monthly credits
Beam
$30 in credits refresh on a published schedule.
Monthly credits
Modal
$30 in credits refresh on a published schedule.
Monthly credits
Sail Research
$5 in credits refresh on a published schedule.
Free model routes
Pollinations.ai
9 model routes currently listed at zero price.
Research / developmentNo card
Cohere
No-cost hosted inference for research, evaluation, or development—not unrestricted production use.
Research / developmentNo card
NSF National Deep Inference Fabric
No-cost hosted inference for research, evaluation, or development—not unrestricted production use.
Research / developmentNo card
NVIDIA Build / NVIDIA-hosted NIM
No-cost hosted inference for research, evaluation, or development—not unrestricted production use.
Research / developmentNo card
OpenTyphoon API
No-cost hosted inference for research, evaluation, or development—not unrestricted production use.
Research / development
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Inference Endpoints
No-cost hosted inference for research, evaluation, or development—not unrestricted production use.
Research / development
Maritaca AI Academic Credits
No-cost hosted inference for research, evaluation, or development—not unrestricted production use.
Research / development
ModelScope API-Inference
No-cost hosted inference for research, evaluation, or development—not unrestricted production use.
Experimental accessNo card
Hetzner Experiments Inference API
Free while the provider's public experiment remains active.
Community capacityNo card
AI Horde
Community-supplied inference with variable capacity and no guaranteed throughput.
Community capacityNo card
ch.at
Community-supplied inference with variable capacity and no guaranteed throughput.
User pays
Puter.js AI
Free to the developer; each end user signs in and consumes their own allowance.
Limited promotionNo card
Poolside direct API
A limited-duration free promotion with no permanence guarantee.
One-time trialNo card
AI21 Studio
$10 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trialNo card
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio / Qwen API
A finite allowance for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trialNo card
AssemblyAI
$50 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trialNo card
BytePlus ModelArk
A finite allowance for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trialNo card
Deepgram
$200 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trialNo card
Fikra API
300K tokens for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trialNo card
Inception Platform
100M tokens for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trialNo card
Jina Search Foundation API
10M tokens for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trialNo card
MARA Inference Cloud
$5 for new accounts; it does not recur.
Limited promotion
OpenCode Zen
A limited-duration free promotion with no permanence guarantee.
One-time trialNo card
Public AI Inference Utility
A finite allowance for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trialNo card
Replicate
A finite allowance for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trialNo card
Sarvam AI
₹100 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trialNo card
SEA-LION API
A finite allowance for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trialNo card
Speechmatics
$100 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trialNo card
Tencent Hunyuan
1M tokens for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trialNo card
Voyage AI
200M tokens for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trialNo card
WaveSpeedAI
$1 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trial
Fireworks AI
$1 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trial
Hyperbolic
$1 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trial
Nebius Token Factory
$1 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trial
Novita AI
A finite allowance for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trial
Upstage
$10 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trial
Amazon Bedrock
$100 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trial
Cerebras Inference
$5 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trial
Clarifai
$5 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trial
Google Cloud Vertex AI
$300 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trial
Microsoft Foundry Models
$200 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trial
OCI Generative AI
$300 for new accounts; it does not recur.
One-time trial
Scaleway Generative APIs
1M tokens for new accounts; it does not recur.
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We keep disputed offers on a watchlist and document providers whose free tier is retired, UI-only, BYOK, or simply paid.