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
- Google AI Studio
- NVIDIA NIM
- Mistral (La Plateforme)
- Mistral (Codestral)
- HuggingFace Inference Providers
- Vercel AI Gateway
- Kilo Gateway
- OpenCode Zen
- Cerebras
- Groq
- Cohere
- Cloudflare Workers AI
- Providers with trial credits
- Fireworks
- Baseten
- Nebius
- Novita
- AI21
- Upstage
- NLP Cloud
- Alibaba Cloud (International) Model Studio
- Modal
- Inference.net
- Hyperbolic
- SambaNova Cloud
- Scaleway Generative APIs
Free Providers
OpenRouter
Limits:
20 requests/minute
50 requests/day
Up to 1000 requests/day with $10 lifetime topup
Models share a common quota.
- Cohere North Mini Code
- 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
- Poolside Laguna S 2.1
- Poolside Laguna XS 2.1
- google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free
- google/gemma-4-31b-it:free
- nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free
- nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:free
- nvidia/nemotron-nano-9b-v2:free
- openai/gpt-oss-20b:free
Google AI Studio
Data is used for training when used outside of the UK/CH/EEA/EU.
| Model Name | Model Limits |
|---|
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | 250,000 tokens/minute
20 requests/day
5 requests/minute |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 250,000 tokens/minute
20 requests/day
5 requests/minute |
| Gemini 3 Flash | 250,000 tokens/minute
20 requests/day
5 requests/minute |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | 250,000 tokens/minute
500 requests/day
15 requests/minute |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | 250,000 tokens/minute
500 requests/day
15 requests/minute |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | 250,000 tokens/minute
20 requests/day
5 requests/minute |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | 250,000 tokens/minute
20 requests/day
10 requests/minute |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS | 10,000 tokens/minute
10 requests/day
3 requests/minute |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash TTS | 10,000 tokens/minute
10 requests/day
3 requests/minute |
| Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 | 250,000 tokens/minute
20 requests/day
5 requests/minute |
| Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 | 250,000 tokens/minute
20 requests/day
10 requests/minute |
| Gemma 4 31B Instruct | 16,000 tokens/minute
14,400 requests/day
30 requests/minute |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B Instruct | 16,000 tokens/minute
14,400 requests/day
30 requests/minute |
| Gemma 3 27B Instruct | 15,000 tokens/minute
14,400 requests/day
30 requests/minute |
| Gemma 3 12B Instruct | 15,000 tokens/minute
14,400 requests/day
30 requests/minute |
| Gemma 3 4B Instruct | 15,000 tokens/minute
14,400 requests/day
30 requests/minute |
| Gemma 3 1B Instruct | 15,000 tokens/minute
14,400 requests/day
30 requests/minute |
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.
- Open and Proprietary Mistral models
Mistral (Codestral)
- Currently free to use
- Monthly subscription based
- Requires phone number verification
Limits: 30 requests/minute, 2,000 requests/day
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)
- 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 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
| Model Name | Model Limits |
|---|
| gpt-oss-120b | 5 requests/minute
30,000 tokens/minute
1,000,000 tokens/hour
1,000,000 tokens/day |
| zai-glm-4.7 | 5 requests/minute
30,000 tokens/minute
1,000,000 tokens/hour
1,000,000 tokens/day |
| gemma-4-31b | 5 requests/minute
30,000 tokens/minute
1,000,000 tokens/hour
1,000,000 tokens/day |
Groq
| Model Name | Model Limits |
|---|
| Allam 2 7B | 7,000 requests/day
6,000 tokens/minute |
| Llama 3.1 8B | 14,400 requests/day
6,000 tokens/minute |
| Llama 3.3 70B | 1,000 requests/day
12,000 tokens/minute |
| Whisper Large v3 | 2,000 requests/day |
| Whisper Large v3 Turbo | 2,000 requests/day |
| canopylabs/orpheus-arabic-saudi | |
| canopylabs/orpheus-v1-english | |
| groq/compound | 250 requests/day
70,000 tokens/minute |
| groq/compound-mini | 250 requests/day
70,000 tokens/minute |
| meta-llama/llama-prompt-guard-2-22m | |
| meta-llama/llama-prompt-guard-2-86m | |
| openai/gpt-oss-120b | 1,000 requests/day
8,000 tokens/minute |
| openai/gpt-oss-20b | 1,000 requests/day
8,000 tokens/minute |
| openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b | 1,000 requests/day
8,000 tokens/minute |
| qwen/qwen3.6-27b | 1,000 requests/day
8,000 tokens/minute |
Cohere
Limits:
20 requests/minute
1,000 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
