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Awesome Free LLM APIs

Awesome

LLM APIs with permanent free tiers for text inference.

All endpoints are OpenAI SDK-compatible unless noted. Each link points to the provider's API key page.

Manifest

All of those free LLM APIs are available at manifest.build - make reliable agents.

Contents

Provider APIs

APIs run by the companies that train or fine-tune the models themselves.

Aion Labs 🇮🇱

Permanent free tier, no credit card required. 15 RPM, 20K tokens/day. Specialized for roleplay and storytelling.

Base URL: https://api.aionlabs.ai/v1

Model Name Context Max Output Modality Rate Limit
aion-labs/aion-2.0 128K 32K Text (reasoning) 15 RPM, 20K TPD
aion-labs/aion-rp-llama-3.1-8b 32K 32K Text 15 RPM, 20K TPD
aion-labs/aion-3.0 128K 32K Text (reasoning) 15 RPM, 20K TPD
aion-labs/aion-3.0-mini 128K 32K Text (reasoning) 15 RPM, 20K TPD

Cohere 🇨🇦

Free "Trial" API key, no credit card. 1,000 API calls/month. Non-commercial use only.

Base URL: https://api.cohere.com/v2

Model Name Context Max Output Modality Rate Limit
Command A+ (218B) 128K 64K Text + Image 20 RPM
Command A (111B) 256K 8K Text 20 RPM
Command R+ 128K 4K Text 20 RPM
Command R 128K 4K Text 20 RPM
Command R7B 128K 4K Text 20 RPM
Command A Reasoning 256K 32K Text (reasoning) 20 RPM
Command A Translate 8K 8K Text 20 RPM
Command A Vision 128K 8K Text + Image 20 RPM
Command R7B Arabic 128K ~4K Text 20 RPM
Aya Expanse 32B 128K 4K Text 20 RPM
Aya Vision 32B 16K 4K Text + Image 20 RPM

Google Gemini 🇺🇸

Free tier, no credit card. Free-tier prompts may be used by Google to improve products. [^1]

Base URL: https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta

Model Name Context Max Output Modality Rate Limit
Gemini 3.7 Flash 1M 65K Text + Image + Audio + Video —
Gemini 3.6 Flash 1M 65K Text + Image + Audio + Video 15 RPM, 1,500 RPD
Gemini 3.5 Flash 1M 65K Text + Image + Audio + Video 15 RPM, 1,500 RPD
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite 1M 65K Text + Image + Audio + Video 30 RPM, 1,500 RPD
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 1M 65K Text + Image + Audio + Video 30 RPM, 1,500 RPD
Gemini 2.5 Flash 1M 65K Text + Image + Audio + Video 15 RPM, 1,500 RPD
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite 1M 65K Text + Image + Audio + Video 30 RPM, 1,500 RPD
Gemini 2.5 Pro 1M 65K Text + Image + Audio + Video 5 RPM, 50 RPD
Gemma 4 31B 256K 32K Text —
Gemma 4 26B A4B 256K 32K Text —

Mistral AI 🇫🇷

Free mode, enabled by default, no credit card required. $10/month in API credits, and free-mode prompts may be used to train Mistral models unless you opt out. [^13]

Base URL: https://api.mistral.ai/v1

Model Name Context Max Output Modality Rate Limit
Mistral Medium 3.5 (128B) 256K — Text + Image + Code ~1 RPS, 500K TPM
Mistral Small 4 256K — Text + Image + Code ~1 RPS, 500K TPM
Mistral Large 3 256K — Multimodal ~1 RPS, 500K TPM
Ministral 3 8B 256K — Text + Vision ~1 RPS, 500K TPM
Codestral 128K — Code ~1 RPS, 500K TPM
Ministral 3 3B 256K — Text + Vision ~1 RPS, 500K TPM
Ministral 3 14B 256K — Text + Vision ~1 RPS, 500K TPM

Z AI (Zhipu AI) 🇨🇳

Permanent free models, no credit card required. [^12]

Base URL: https://open.bigmodel.cn/api/paas/v4

Model Name Context Max Output Modality Rate Limit
GLM-4.7-Flash 200K 128K Text (reasoning) 1 concurrent request
GLM-4.5-Flash (retirement announced) 128K 96K Text (reasoning) 1 concurrent request
GLM-4.6V-Flash 128K 32K Multimodal 1 concurrent request

Inference providers

Third-party platforms that host open-weight models from various sources.

Cloudflare Workers AI 🇺🇸

10,000 Neurons/day free, no credit card required. 75+ models available on the free tier. [^11]

Base URL: https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run

Model Name Context Max Output Modality Rate Limit
@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast 24K Shared w/ context Text 10K neurons/day (shared)
@cf/meta/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct 131K Shared w/ context Multimodal 10K neurons/day (shared)
@cf/openai/gpt-oss-120b 128K Shared w/ context Text 10K neurons/day (shared)
@cf/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it 256K Shared w/ context Text + Vision 10K neurons/day (shared)
@cf/zai-org/glm-4.7-flash 131K Shared w/ context Text 10K neurons/day (shared)
@cf/mistralai/mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct 128K Shared w/ context Text 10K neurons/day (shared)
@cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b 80K Shared w/ context Text (reasoning) 10K neurons/day (shared)
+ 72 more models Varies Varies Text, Image, Audio, Embeddings 10K neurons/day (shared)

Groq 🇺🇸

Free tier, no credit card. Ultra-fast LPU inference. [^2]

Base URL: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1

Model Name Context Max Output Modality Rate Limit
openai/gpt-oss-120b 131K 65K Text 30 RPM, 1,000 RPD
openai/gpt-oss-20b 131K 65K Text 30 RPM, 1,000 RPD
groq/compound 131K 8K Text 30 RPM, 250 RPD
groq/compound-mini 131K 8K Text 30 RPM, 250 RPD
qwen/qwen3.6-27b 131K 16K Text 30 RPM, 1,000 RPD

Hugging Face 🇺🇸

$0.10/month in Inference Provider credits for free users (subject to change). Routes to Fireworks, Together, Hyperbolic, Nebius, Novita, DeepInfra and others. Thousands of models.

Base URL: https://router.huggingface.co/v1

Model Name Context Max Output Modality Rate Limit
Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct 128K ~4K Text Credit-metered
gemma-3-4b-it 131K ~4K Text Credit-metered
phi-4 16K ~4K Text Credit-metered
Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct 131K ~4K Text Credit-metered
Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct 131K ~4K Text Credit-metered
+ thousands of community models Varies Varies Text, Image, Audio, Embeddings Credit-metered

Kilo Code 🇺🇸

Free models with no credit card and no API key required. kilo-auto/free auto-router dynamically routes to models in the free pool. [^5]

Base URL: https://api.kilo.ai/api/gateway

Model Name Context Max Output Modality Rate Limit
nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free 1M 65K Text 200 req/hr
stepfun/step-3.7-flash:free 262K 262K Text + Vision 200 req/hr
nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free 262K 262K Text 200 req/hr
nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free 256K 65K Multimodal 200 req/hr
poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free 262K 32K Text (code) 200 req/hr
poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free 262K 32K Text (code) 200 req/hr
cohere/north-mini-code:free 256K 64K Text (code) 200 req/hr
openrouter/free Varies Varies Text 200 req/hr
tencent/hy3:free 262K 128K Text 200 req/hr
nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free 1M 65K Text 200 req/hr
liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free 64K 8K Text 200 req/hr

LLM7.io 🇬🇧

API gateway with a free tier. Anonymous access needs no key and reaches the turbo models; a free token from token.llm7.io raises the rate and token limits but reaches the same models. [^10]

Base URL: https://api.llm7.io/v1

Model Name Context Max Output Modality Rate Limit
gpt-oss:20b 128K — Text 10 RPM, 60 req/hr (anonymous)
mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 128K — Text 10 RPM, 60 req/hr (anonymous)
minimax-m2.7 180K — Text (reasoning) 10 RPM, 60 req/hr (anonymous)

ModelScope 🇨🇳

Free API-Inference for registered users. Requires Alibaba Cloud account binding + real-name verification. [^6]

Base URL: https://api-inference.modelscope.cn/v1

Model Name Context Max Output Modality Rate Limit
Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B 256K — Text 2,000 RPD total; <=500 RPD/model (dynamic)
Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B 256K — Text 2,000 RPD total; <=500 RPD/model (dynamic)
+ API-Inference-enabled models Varies Varies LLM, MLLM Dynamic quotas + dynamic concurrency

NVIDIA NIM 🇺🇸

Free with NVIDIA Developer Program membership. 100+ models. Rate-limited per model.

Base URL: https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1

Model Name Context Max Output Modality Rate Limit
nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b 1M 262K Text 40 RPM, 10,000 RPD
nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b 262K 32K Text 40 RPM, 10,000 RPD
nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b-v1 128K 4K Text 40 RPM, 10,000 RPD
meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct 128K 4K Text 40 RPM, 10,000 RPD
mistralai/mistral-nemotron 128K 8K Text 40 RPM, 10,000 RPD
google/gemma-4-31b-it 262K 8K Text 40 RPM, 10,000 RPD
mistralai/mistral-large-2-instruct 128K 4K Text 40 RPM, 10,000 RPD
minimaxai/minimax-m3 1M ~64K Text 40 RPM, 10,000 RPD
nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b 1M 262K Text 40 RPM, 10,000 RPD
openai/gpt-oss-120b 131K 131K Text 40 RPM, 10,000 RPD
openai/gpt-oss-20b 131K 131K Text 40 RPM, 10,000 RPD
+ 92 more models Varies Varies Text, Image, Video, Speech, Embeddings 40 RPM, 10,000 RPD

Ollama Cloud 🇺🇸

Free tier with usage limits. 16 cloud model families from the Ollama library. OpenAI SDK-compatible via https://ollama.com/v1. [^3]

Base URL: https://ollama.com/api

Model Name Context Max Output Modality Rate Limit
deepseek-v4-pro 1M Model-dependent Text Session/weekly limits (unpublished)
deepseek-v4-flash 1M Model-dependent Text Session/weekly limits (unpublished)
minimax-m3 512K Model-dependent Text Session/weekly limits (unpublished)
kimi-k3 1M Model-dependent Text Session/weekly limits (unpublished)
gpt-oss:120b 128K Model-dependent Text Session/weekly limits (unpublished)
gpt-oss:20b 131K Model-dependent Text Session/weekly limits (unpublished)
nemotron-3-ultra 262K Model-dependent Text Session/weekly limits (unpublished)
mistral-large-3:675b 256K Model-dependent Text Session/weekly limits (unpublished)
qwen3.5:397b 256K Model-dependent Text Session/weekly limits (unpublished)
+ 7 more cloud models Varies Varies Text Session/weekly limits (unpublished)

OpenRouter 🇺🇸

17 free models (marked with :free suffix). OpenAI SDK-compatible. [^4]

Base URL: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1

Model Name Context Max Output Modality Rate Limit
nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free 262K 262K Text 20 RPM, 50 RPD
openai/gpt-oss-20b:free 131K 32K Text 20 RPM, 50 RPD
cohere/north-mini-code:free 256K 64K Text (code) 20 RPM, 50 RPD
google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free 262K 32K Text + Image 20 RPM, 50 RPD
google/gemma-4-31b-it:free 262K 32K Text + Image 20 RPM, 50 RPD
inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash:free 262K 32K Text 20 RPM, 50 RPD
nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free 256K — Text 20 RPM, 50 RPD
nvidia/nemotron-nano-9b-v2:free 128K — Text 20 RPM, 50 RPD
nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:free 128K 128K Text + Image 20 RPM, 50 RPD
poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free 262K 32K Text (code) 20 RPM, 50 RPD
poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free 262K 32K Text (code) 20 RPM, 50 RPD
+ 6 more free models Varies Varies Text / Image 20 RPM, 50 RPD

OVHcloud AI Endpoints 🇫🇷

Free anonymous tier (no API key, no signup): 2 RPM per IP per model. 20+ open-weight models hosted in EU. OpenAI SDK-compatible. [^7]

Base URL: https://oai.endpoints.kepler.ai.cloud.ovh.net/v1

Model Name Context Max Output Modality Rate Limit
Qwen3.5-397B-A17B 131K ~32K Text 2 RPM (anonymous)
gpt-oss-120b 128K ~32K Text 2 RPM (anonymous)
gpt-oss-20b 128K ~8K Text 2 RPM (anonymous)
Meta-Llama-3_3-70B-Instruct 131K ~4K Text 2 RPM (anonymous)
Qwen3.6-27B 131K ~32K Text 2 RPM (anonymous)
Qwen3.5-9B 131K ~8K Text 2 RPM (anonymous)
Qwen3-32B 131K ~32K Text 2 RPM (anonymous)
Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct 262K ~32K Text (code) 2 RPM (anonymous)
Qwen2.5-VL-72B-Instruct 128K ~8K Text + Vision 2 RPM (anonymous)
Mistral-Small-3.2-24B-Instruct 128K ~4K Text 2 RPM (anonymous)
Mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 128K ~4K Text 2 RPM (anonymous)
Mistral-7B-Instruct

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What is this?A curated list of LLM APIs that offer permanent free tiers for text inference. Every entry links straight to the provider's API key page, so you can register and start calling models at no cost.
Is this a catalog I browse, or do I install something?It's a reference list on GitHub, not a tool to install. You browse the tables, pick a provider and sign up on its own site — nothing in this repo needs to be installed or run.
Where should I start if I just want to try something today?Start with the zero-friction ones: Kilo Code requires no credit card and no API key (an auto-router picks free models for you), and LLM7.io allows anonymous access without a token.
What's the catch with these free tiers?Rate limits and data-use caveats. Google may use free-tier prompts to improve its products, Mistral may train on free-mode prompts unless you opt out, and Cohere's trial key is non-commercial only.
Which big-name models can I actually use for free?Highlights include Google Gemini 2.5 Pro with a 1M-token context, OpenAI's open-weight gpt-oss-120b (on Groq, NVIDIA NIM, OpenRouter and Cloudflare), Cohere Command A+, DeepSeek R1 distills and Z AI's GLM-4.7-Flash.
Can these free APIs handle images and audio, or text only?Several are multimodal: Gemini Flash models accept text, image, audio and video, Mistral's free models handle text, image and code, and NVIDIA NIM's catalog adds video, speech and embeddings.
How generous are the free quotas in practice?It varies a lot: NVIDIA NIM allows up to 10,000 requests per model per day, Gemini Flash around 1,500/day, Kilo Code 200 requests/hour, while OpenRouter free models cap at 50/day — fine for hobby use, tight for production.
What are similar projects?awesome-freellm-apis, free-ai-tools, memory-lancedb-pro, awesome-chatgpt-zh, awesome-jev, cascadeflow, awesome-mcp-servers, awesome-jev
Which topics is it in?llm-routing, openclaw-plugin, llm-router, router, openclaw, openai-compatible, ollama, awesome, reference, gemini, inference, huggingface
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