One-time trialHigh confidence
Public AI Inference Utility
Operated by Public AI nonprofit
A finite allowance for new accounts; it does not recur.
Free accessOne-time trial
Payment cardNo
AccountRequired
Sources4 first-party links
API endpoint
https://api.publicai.co/v1Catalog snapshot
11Models mentioned
swiss-ai/apertus-v1.5-8bswiss-ai/apertus-v1.5-8b-thinkingswiss-ai/apertus-v1.5-70bswiss-ai/apertus-v1.5-70b-thinkingswiss-ai/apertus-8b-instructswiss-ai/apertus-70b-instructaisingapore/Gemma-SEA-LION-v4-27B-ITaisingapore/Qwen-SEA-LION-v4-32B-ITallenai/Olmo-3-7B-Instructspeakleash/Bielik-11B-v3.0-Instructutter-project/EuroLLM-22B-Instruct-2512Limits and terms
- Free Tier Requests Per Minute
- 100
- Starter Credit Amount
- not documented
- Overage
- Positive token prices are deducted from the wallet after starter credit.
Eligibility
- Account Required
- Yes
- Payment Method Required
- not documented
History
- Date
- 2025-09-17
- Event
- A Hugging Face launch article said Public AI was free at the time; current starter-credit and wallet pricing supersedes that statement.
Receipts
4Primary sources
Official DocsPublic AI API docshttps://platform.publicai.co/docsOfficial PricingPlanshttps://platform.publicai.co/plansOfficial CatalogModelshttps://platform.publicai.co/modelsHistorical Announcement · 2025-09-17Public AI joins Inference Providershttps://huggingface.co/blog/inference-providers-publicai