Research / developmentHigh confidence
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility Inference Endpoints
No-cost hosted inference for research, evaluation, or development—not unrestricted production use.
Free accessResearch / development
Payment cardUnknown
AccountNot documented
Sources4 first-party links
API endpoint
https://inference-api.alcf.anl.govCatalog snapshot
7Models mentioned
meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instructmeta-llama/Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instructmistralai/Mistral-Large-Instruct-2407openai/gpt-oss-120bargonne/AuroraGPT-IT-v4-0125google/gemma-4-31B-itnvidia/nemotron-3-super-120bLimits and terms
- Numeric User Limit
- allocation specific
- Batch Max Requests
- 150,000
- Cold Start Minutes
- 10-15
Eligibility
- Approved Project Required
- Yes
- Programs
- Directors DiscretionaryINCITEALCCNAIRR
- Open Research Cost
- generally no cost compute allocation
- Proprietary Research
- cost recovery
Geography
United StatesAudience
approved researchReceipts
4Primary sources
Official DocsInference endpointshttps://docs.alcf.anl.gov/services/inference-endpoints/Official DocsAllocation managementhttps://docs.alcf.anl.gov/account-project-management/allocation-management/Official ProgramDiscretionary allocationshttps://www.alcf.anl.gov/science/directors-discretionary-allocation-programOfficial RepositoryInference endpoints repositoryhttps://github.com/argonne-lcf/inference-endpoints