---
title: "AMD Radeon Cloud Public Free Model APIs free inference"
description: "No-cost research and development inference across 4 models; not unrestricted production use."
canonical_url: "https://freeinferencing.com/provider/amd_radeon_cloud_free_model_api/"
md_url: "https://freeinferencing.com/provider/amd_radeon_cloud_free_model_api.md"
last_updated: "2026-09-19"
---

# AMD Radeon Cloud Public Free Model APIs

> No-cost research and development inference across 4 models; not unrestricted production use.

## Classification

- **Directory:** Current
- **Free access:** Research / development
- **Status:** Restricted access
- **Confidence:** High
- **Payment card:** No
- **Account:** Required
- **Equivalent paid value:** Not quantifiable
- **API endpoint:** `https://developer.amd.com.cn/radeon/api/v1`

## Models mentioned

- `DeepSeek-V4-Flash`
- `DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp`
- `Qwen3.8-Flash-Next`
- `MiniCPM5-2B`

## Limits and terms

```yaml
platform_requests_per_minute_per_key: 30
platform_requests_per_minute_per_ip: 120
platform_concurrency_per_key: 8
gateway_requests_per_minute_per_account: 20
gateway_window_seconds: 60
spend_cap: dynamic_account_specific_usd_amount_not_public
effective_note: The 20 RPM account gateway is tighter than the typical 30 RPM
  key admission limit.
```

## What happens to your prompts?

**Not private.** AMD ordinarily retains prompts and model outputs for a rolling two days, despite excluding training, sale, and third-party own use.

Privacy is audited separately from price. Review the current governing terms before sending sensitive or regulated data.

## Data governance and agreements

```yaml
data_governance:
  review_status: reviewed
  plan_scope: AMD Radeon Cloud public free Model API for development, evaluation,
    demos, hackathons, and open-source work.
  prompt_retention: AMD retains prompts in ordinary operation for a rolling
    two-day period; abuse investigations or legal obligations can extend
    retention.
  response_retention: Model outputs follow the same rolling two-day
    content-retention rule and possible abuse/legal holds.
  ordinary_logging: Request metadata, account/key, model, token, timing,
    rate-limit, security, and operational records may be retained longer than
    content; no universal metadata maximum is stated.
  model_training: AMD says prompts and outputs are never used to train models.
  product_improvement: Content may be used during the two-day window for capacity
    planning, debugging, abuse prevention, and enforcement, but not sold or
    licensed for third-party own use.
  human_or_operator_access: Authorized personnel may access short-lived content
    for debugging, abuse investigation, security, and legal compliance.
  subprocessors_and_routing: AMD/Radeon Cloud operates the free gateway and
    deployments; the terms do not grant unrelated third parties independent
    content use.
  deletion_controls: Ordinary prompt/output copies roll off after two days; users
    have no documented per-request deletion control, and abuse/legal holds can
    extend retention.
  caveat: No sensitive or confidential data may be submitted. Short retention and
    no training are favorable, but default ordinary content logging requires a
    not_private classification under this catalog's rubric.
agreements:
  model_api_terms: https://amd-aim.github.io/radeon-cloud-docs/api/terms/
```

## Eligibility

```yaml
account_required: true
signup: AMD Developer/Token Factory account with email verification and key review
signup_open_to_anyone: true
keys_per_person: 1
payment_method_required: false
real_name_verification_required: not_documented
```

## API compatibility and modalities

- **Compatibility:** OpenAI Chat Completions, OpenAI Models, Anthropic Messages, Anthropic Count Tokens
- **Modalities:** Text generation, Image / vision
- **Geography:** Public Multi Deployment Service; Public Host Is In The AMD China Developer Domain

## Before you build with AMD Radeon Cloud Public Free Model APIs

### Read the classification narrowly

This record describes the bounded offer supported by evidence on 2026-09-19; it does not guarantee permanence, production suitability, uptime, latency, model quality, or access from every account and region. “Research / development” should be interpreted together with the Current directory placement, High confidence, No payment-card status, and the plan-specific sources below.

### Resolve the live model route

The snapshot records 4 model IDs. Match the exact ID against the provider's current catalog before using it in code because zero-price routes, aliases, context limits, and feature support can rotate while an older documentation page remains online.

### Match the quota to the workload shape

Translate the allowance into peak requests per minute, input and output tokens, concurrency, retries, and every daily or monthly ceiling that applies to the intended account. The first limit reached by the workload is the practical ceiling. A large token pool can still fail interactive bursts, and a high request limit can still fail long-context work. Include tool calls and retry traffic, test the largest realistic payload, and treat research, experimental, and community access as conditional on their eligibility and fair-use terms.

### Preserve billing and privacy boundaries

The recorded payment-card requirement is No, and account access is required. Confirm both in the live signup flow, set provider-side budgets when charges are possible, and observe the balance or usage fields after a complete request. The prompt-handling classification is **Not private** because AMD ordinarily retains prompts and model outputs for a rolling two days, despite excluding training, sale, and third-party own use. Re-read the terms for the exact route and plan before sending sensitive, regulated, or proprietary content.

### Follow the evidence, then re-check it

This record links 6 first-party sources covering the offer, catalog, limits, pricing, terms, privacy, or adoption evidence available to the audit. Prefer the newest and most specific governing document or live catalog when sources disagree. A dated finding can become stale even when the page remains online, so retain the source and snapshot that supported the decision and submit a correction when a provider changes a material term.

### Plan fallback without policy drift

A fallback should preserve modality, context length, streaming, structured output, tools, safety controls, and data terms, not only API syntax. Decide which errors may retry, cap retry storms, and prevent an exhausted free route from silently switching to a billable model. Rotating aliases and free pools can change behavior without changing the endpoint, so retain the response model field and test at least one substitute route before the primary offer becomes unavailable.

### Monitor the offer as a dependency

Capture the model ID, response model, rate-limit headers, usage fields, latency, HTTP status, and provider request identifier. Watch authorization failure, quota exhaustion, catalog removal, policy revision, and balance movement as separate failure modes. Re-check the live catalog and governing sources on a schedule proportionate to the workload's importance, and keep an owner and exit path for any production dependency on volatile free capacity.

### Test one complete request before scaling

Start with the smallest permitted request using the exact credential, model ID, endpoint, region, and account type intended for deployment. Record the status, headers, usage fields, response model, latency, and dashboard balance movement. Then exercise an invalid model, quota exhaustion, or rate limit so failure is explicit and cannot silently switch to a paid route. Validate streaming, structured output, and tool calls separately because a free model can expose fewer features than its paid counterpart. Keep a budget ceiling outside the application whenever billing is possible, and do not send sensitive data until the observed route matches the reviewed agreement.

## Primary sources

- [Model API overview](https://amd-aim.github.io/radeon-cloud-docs/api/overview/): Official Docs
- [Rate limits](https://amd-aim.github.io/radeon-cloud-docs/api/rate-limits/): Official Docs
- [Models overview](https://amd-aim.github.io/radeon-cloud-docs/models/overview/): Official Catalog
- [Model API terms](https://amd-aim.github.io/radeon-cloud-docs/api/terms/): Official Terms
- [Authentication](https://amd-aim.github.io/radeon-cloud-docs/api/authentication/): Official Docs
- [AMD Developer Central](https://www.amd.com/en/developer.html): Official Developer Platform

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