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awesome-free-llm-apis

511+ free LLM APIs from 30 providers — find, compare & configure free models in seconds.

🌐 Live at freellm.net — Browse models · Playground · Config generator · API keys

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Why This Exists

Finding a free LLM API shouldn't mean hunting through a dozen GitHub READMEs, signing up for five different platforms, or guessing which models still have a free tier.

This repo is a structured, machine-readable directory of every free LLM API — rate limits, context windows, one-click config snippets, and direct API key links. Updated daily.

Why this repo + freellm.net:

How to Use — 3 Steps

  1. Pick a provider — see Provider Directory below. Start with Groq (no credit card, 30 RPM free).
  2. Get your API key — click any Get Key → link below, sign up (most need just an email), and copy your key. Takes < 1 minute.
  3. Plug it in — copy the base URL + model ID, paste into the Quick Start examples below.

Configuring a specific tool? Claude Code · Cursor · Codex · OpenHuman · OpenCode · OpenClaw — one-click configs at freellm.net/config/.

Quick Start — Use Any Free API in 30 Seconds

Never used an API before? Here's the simplest path: go to console.groq.com/keys, sign up with just an email (no credit card), copy your free key, and paste it into any example below. You'll be running in under a minute.

All providers below expose an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Any tool that accepts baseURL + apiKey works — just swap the base URL and key.

Python (OpenAI SDK)

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.groq.com/openai/v1",  # free, no credit card
    api_key="GROQ_API_KEY",                     # get at console.groq.com/keys
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="llama-3.3-70b-versatile",            # see Best Models table below
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)
# Groq free tier: 30 RPM, 14,400 RPD — generous for personal use

Codex CLI

export OPENAI_BASE_URL="https://api.groq.com/openai/v1"
export OPENAI_API_KEY="your-groq-key"          # get at console.groq.com/keys
codex --model "llama-3.3-70b-versatile"

Cursor

Settings → Models → Add Model
  Model name: llama-3.3-70b-versatile
  Base URL: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1
  API key: your-groq-key                       # get at console.groq.com/keys

Claude Code

# Claude Code needs an Anthropic-compatible API — use OpenRouter
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://openrouter.ai/api"
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN="sk-or-v1-your-key"  # openrouter.ai/keys
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=""                       # must be empty
# Note: OpenRouter Anthropic models need $10 top-up (one-time)

Using Other Tools?

Most AI dev tools accept custom API endpoints — just point them at any provider above. Grab your free key, then:

More ready-to-copy configs at freellm.net/config/.

All providers, base URLs, and API key links are in the Quick Reference below.

Provider Directory

⚡ Permanent Free Tiers

These providers offer a permanently free tier — no credit card required for most.

Provider Free Models Credit Card? Max Context Modalities Get API Key
NVIDIA NIM 134 Phone verification 1M audio, embedding, image, pdf, reasoning, rerank, text, video, vision →
ModelScope 61 Registration 1M audio, image, reasoning, text, video, vision →
Cloudflare Workers AI 41 No 262K code, image, reasoning, text, video →
OpenCode Zen 34 Registration 1M audio, reasoning, vision →
LLM7.io 24 No 1M audio, code, image, pdf, reasoning, text, video, vision →
Kilo Code 23 No 1M audio, code, image, reasoning, text, video →
Google Gemini 19 No 1M audio, image, pdf, reasoning, text, video, vision →
Ollama Cloud 17 Registration 1M code, image, reasoning, text, video, vision →
Mistral AI 15 No 256K code, image, pdf, reasoning, text →
OVHcloud AI Endpoints 15 Registration 262K audio, code, image, reasoning, text, video →
Groq 12 No 262K image, reasoning, text, video →
Cohere 12 No 256K image, text →
Aion Labs 11 Registration 131K reasoning, text →
Hugging Face 9 No 131K code, image, text →
Z AI (Zhipu AI) 8 No 200K image, reasoning, text, video →
Cerebras 6 No 131K reasoning, text →
Agnes AI 5 Registration 256K image, reasoning, text, video, vision →
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio 5 Registration 1M code, image, text →
SiliconFlow 4 Registration 131K reasoning, text →
SambaNova 4 Registration 128K image, reasoning, text →
Cline 4 Registration 0 text, vision →
xAI 3 Registration 2M text →
Chutes.ai 2 Registration 131K reasoning, text →
Glhf.chat 2 Registration 131K text →
Grok (xAI) 2 Registration 131K text →
AI21 Labs 2 Registration 256K text →
DeepSeek 2 Registration 128K text →
Nscale 2 Registration 128K text →
Nebius 1 Registration 128K text →

💰 Renewable Credits

Providers that periodically renew free credits.

Provider Free Models Credit Model Max Context Modalities Get API Key
OpenRouter 32 Free tier + $10 topup → 1K RPD 1M audio, code, decisions, embeddings, image, reasoning, rerank, speech, text, video →

Quick Reference — Base URLs & API Keys

Provider Base URL Get API Key Credit Card?
NVIDIA NIM https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1 Get Key → Phone verification
ModelScope https://api-inference.modelscope.cn/v1 Get Key → Registration
Cloudflare Workers AI https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run Get Key → No
OpenCode Zen https://opencode.ai/zen/v1 Get Key → Registration
OpenRouter https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 Get Key → Registration
LLM7.io https://api.llm7.io/v1 Get Key → No
Kilo Code https://api.kilo.ai/api/gateway Get Key → No
Google Gemini https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta Get Key → No
Ollama Cloud https://ollama.com/api Get Key → Registration
Mistral AI https://api.mistral.ai/v1 Get Key → No
OVHcloud AI Endpoints https://oai.endpoints.kepler.ai.cloud.ovh.net/v1 Get Key → Registration
Groq https://api.groq.com/openai/v1 Get Key → No
Cohere https://api.cohere.com/v2 Get Key → No
Aion Labs https://api.aionlabs.ai/v1 Get Key → Registration
Hugging Face https://router.huggingface.co/v1 Get Key → No
Z AI (Zhipu AI) https://open.bigmodel.cn/api/paas/v4 Get Key → No
Cerebras https://api.cerebras.ai/v1 Get Key → No
Agnes AI https://apihub.agnes-ai.com/v1 Get Key → Registration
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1 Get Key → Registration
SiliconFlow https://api.siliconflow.cn/v1 Get Key → Registration
SambaNova https://api.sambanova.ai/v1 Get Key → Registration
Cline `` Get Key → Registration
xAI https://api.x.ai/v1 Get Key → Registration
Chutes.ai https://api.chutes.ai/v1 Get Key → Registration
Glhf.chat https://glhf.chat/api/openai/v1 Get Key → Registration
Grok (xAI) https://api.x.ai/v1 Get Key → Registration
AI21 Labs https://api.ai21.com/studio/v1 Get Key → Registration
DeepSeek https://api.deepseek.com/v1 Get Key → Registration
Nscale https://inference.api.nscale.com/v1 Get Key → Registration
Nebius https://api.studio.nebius.com/v1 Get Key → Registration

Best Free Models by Provider

Provider Best Free Model Model ID Max Context Rate Limit
NVIDIA NIM z-ai/glm-5.3-flash z-ai/glm-5.3-flash 1M Up to 40 RPM
z-ai/glm-5.2 z-ai/glm-5.2 1M Up to 40 RPM
z-ai/glm-5.1 z-ai/glm-5.1 202K Up to 40 RPM
ModelScope MiniMax-M2.5-highspeed MiniMax/MiniMax-M2.5 204K See provider
Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B qwen-qwen3-5-35b-a3b 256K 2,000 RPD total; <=500 ..
Qwen/Qwen3.5-27B qwen-qwen3-5-27b 256K 2,000 RPD total; <=500 ..
Cloudflare Workers AI Mistral 7B @cf/mistral/mistral-7b-instruct-v0.1 32K See provider
Qwen 1.5 7B @cf/qwen/qwen1.5-7b-chat 32K See provider
@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast 24K 10K neurons/day (shared)
OpenCode Zen big-pickle big-pickle 0
DeepSeek V4 Flash deepseek-v4-flash-free 1M
MiMo-V2.5 mimo-v2.5-free 1M
OpenRouter NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free 1M See provider
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free 1M See provider
Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free) poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free 262K See provider
LLM7.io gpt-oss:20b gpt-oss-20b 128K 60 RPM, 250 req/hr (fre..
mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 mistral-Nemo-Instruct-2407 128K 60 RPM, 250 req/hr (fre..
minimax-m2.7 minimax-m2.7 180K 60 RPM, 250 req/hr (fre..
Kilo Code nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free 1M 200 req/hr
stepfun/step-3.7-flash:free stepfun/step-3.7-flash 262K 200 req/hr
nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free 262K 200 req/hr
Google Gemini Gemini 3.8 Flash gemini-3.8-flash 1M —
Gemini 3.7 Flash gemini-3.7-flash 1M —
Gemini 3.6 Flash gemini-3.6-flash 1M 15 RPM, 1,500 RPD
Ollama Cloud deepseek-v4-pro deepseek-v4-pro 1M Session/weekly limits (..
deepseek-v4-flash deepseek-v4-flash 1M Session/weekly limits (..
minimax-m3 minimax-m3 512K Session/weekly limits (..
Mistral AI Mistral 7B open-mistral-7b 32K See provider
Mixtral 8x7B open-mixtral-8x7b 32K See provider
Mistral Medium 3.5 (128B) mistral-medium-3-5-128b 256K ~1 RPS, 500K TPM
OVHcloud AI Endpoints Qwen3.5-397B-A17B qwen3.5-397b-a17b 262K 2 RPM (anonymous)
Meta-Llama-3_3-70B-Instruct meta-llama-3_3-70b-instruct 131K 2 RPM (anonymous)
Qwen3.8-27B qwen3.8-27b 262K 2 RPM (anonymous)
Groq Moonshot Kimi K2 moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct 131K See provider
Moonshot Kimi K2 0905 moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 131K See provider
groq/compound groq/compound 131K 30 RPM, 250 RPD
Cohere Command A+ (218B) command-a-218b 128K 20 RPM
Command A (111B) command-a-111b 256K 20 RPM
Command R+ command-r 128K 20 RPM
Aion Labs aion-labs/aion-2.0 aion-labs-aion-2-0 128K 15 RPM, 20K TPD
aion-labs/aion-rp-llama-3.1-8b aion-labs-aion-rp-llama-3-1-8b 32K 15 RPM, 20K TPD
aion-labs/aion-3.0 aion-labs-aion-3-0 128K 15 RPM, 20K TPD
Hugging Face Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct meta-llama-3-1-8b-instruct 128K Credit-metered
gemma-3-4b-it google/gemma-3-4b-it 131K Credit-metered
phi-4 phi-4 16K Credit-metered
Z AI (Zhipu AI) GLM-4.7-Flash glm-4.7-flash 200K 1 concurrent request
GLM-4.5-Flash (retirement announced) glm-4-5-flash-retirement-announced 128K 1 concurrent request
GLM-4.6V-Flash glm-4.6v-flash 128K 1 concurrent request
Cerebras Llama 3.1 70B llama3.1-70b 131K See provider
zai-glm-4.7 (deprecated Aug 2026) zai-glm-4-7-deprecated-aug-2026 131K 5 RPM, 30K TPM, 1M TPD
zai-glm-4.7 zai-glm-4.7 128K 10 RPM, 100 RPD, 1M TPD
Agnes AI agnes-1.5-flash agnes-1.5-flash 256K 30 RPM
agnes-2.0-flash agnes-2.0-flash 256K 30 RPM
agnes-image-2.0-flash agnes-image-2.0-flash 4K 30 RPM (1K)
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio Qwen3-Max qwen3-max 128K Tiered by region
Qwen3-Plus qwen3-plus 1M Tiered by region
Qwen3-VL-Plus qwen3-vl-plus 128K Tiered by region
SiliconFlow Qwen/Qwen3-8B Qwen/Qwen3-8B 128K 1,000 RPM, 50,000 TPM
Abbreviation abbreviation 131K See provider
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B deepseek-ai-deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-7b 131K 30 RPM, 60K TPM
SambaNova DeepSeek-V3.1 deepseek-v3-1 128K 20 RPM, 20 RPD, 200K TPD
DeepSeek-V3.2 (Preview) deepseek-v3-2-preview 128K 20 RPM, 20 RPD, 200K TPD
MiniMax-M2.7 minimax-m2-7 128K 20 RPM, 20 RPD, 200K TPD
Cline Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor cline-free/muse-spark-1.3-contributor 0 See provider
Mimo V2.6 Flash cline-free/mimo-v2.6-flash 0 See provider
Solar Mini 4 cline-free/solar-mini4 0 See provider
xAI grok-4.3 grok-4-3 1M Credit-based
grok-4.1-fast grok-4-1-fast 2M Credit-based
grok-3-mini grok-3-mini 131K Credit-based
Chutes.ai DeepSeek-R1 deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1 131K Community-powered, no h..
Llama 3.1 70B meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct 131K Community-powered, no h..
Glhf.chat Llama 3.1 70B meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct 131K Unlimited for free models
Mixtral 8x7B mistralai/Mixtral-8x7B-Instruct-v0.1 32K Unlimited for free models
Grok (xAI) Grok-2 grok-2 131K $25/month free credits,..
Grok-2 Mini grok-2-mini 131K $25/month free credits,..
AI21 Labs Jamba Large 1.7 jamba-large-1-7 256K 200 RPM, 10 RPS
Jamba Mini 2 jamba-mini-2 256K 200 RPM, 10 RPS
DeepSeek deepseek-chat (V3.2) deepseek-chat-v3-2 128K Dynamic
deepseek-reasoner (R1) deepseek-reasoner-r1 128K Dynamic
Nscale Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct llama-3-3-70b-instruct 128K Fair-use
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B deepseek-r1-distill-llama-70b 128K Fair-use
Nebius Qwen3-235B-A22B qwen3-235b-a22b 128K Tier-based

🖥️ Local / Self-Hosted (Unlimited, Private, Free Forever)

Tool Type Highlights
Ollama CLI + API 100+ models, GPU acceleration, OpenAI-compatible endpoint
LM Studio Desktop GUI Any GGUF model, built-in model browser, offline
llama.cpp C/C++ engine Runs any GGUF, minimal dependencies
GPT4All Desktop app CPU-only, no GPU required, open source
Jan.ai Desktop app Privacy-focused, 100% offline ChatGPT alternative
KoboldCpp Single executable Optimized for creative writing, GGUF

Top Free Models (by Weekly Usage)

Data from freellm.net, updated daily via API monitoring.

Model Provider Context Weekly Usage
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) OpenRouter 1M 5343B tokens
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash NVIDIA NIM 1M 5341B tokens
z-ai/glm-5.2 NVIDIA NIM 1M 2998B tokens
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) OpenRouter 1M 1167B tokens
Poolside: Laguna S 2.1 (free) OpenRouter 262K 1016B tokens
Poolside: Laguna M.1 (free) OpenRouter 262K 768B tokens
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free) OpenRouter 262K 768B tokens
Dots Studio: Dots3-Note Preview (free) OpenRouter 512K 751B tokens
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (free) OpenRouter 1M 573B tokens
Apodex: Apodex 1.1 Mini (free) OpenRouter 262K 284B tokens

Repository Structure

awesome-free-llm-apis/
├── README.md              ← Complete provider directory & code examples
├── code-examples/          ← Ready-to-use config snippets
│   ├── claude-code.md
│   ├── cursor.md
│   └── codex.md
└── LICENSE                 ← MIT

For the full structured dataset with 453 models and daily updates, visit freellm.net.

Contributing

We welcome contributions!

Criteria for inclusion

A model belongs in this list if:

  1. The provider explicitly offers a free tier (not just a trial credit)
  2. The API is publicly accessible (no waitlist, closed beta, or reverse-engineering)
  3. For trial credits: clearly labeled and minimum $1 credit value

License

MIT © open-free-llm-api

Last updated: 2026-10-18

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这是什么？这是一个精选、机器可读的免费 LLM API 目录，收录 30 多家提供商（Google Gemini、NVIDIA NIM、Groq、OpenRouter 等）的 499 个以上免费 API，让你几秒钟内查找、比较并配置免费模型。
这是代码库，还是只是参考清单？它是一个 markdown 参考目录，背后有配套的在线网站（freellm.net）支持，不是库或 SDK——没有代码要安装，只有提供商、模型和 API 密钥链接的表格。
怎么开始使用这个清单里的免费 API？从 Provider Directory 表中挑选一个提供商，点击它的「Get Key」链接，注册（大多数只需邮箱，无需银行卡），复制密钥，然后把它粘贴到 freellm.net/config/ 为你的工具生成的一键配置片段中。
它为哪些编程工具生成配置？为 Claude Code、Cursor、Codex CLI、Aider、Cline、Open WebUI、OpenHuman、OpenCode 等提供了可直接复制的配置片段。
这些提供商都要信用卡吗？不是——目录明确标注了每个提供商是需要信用卡、手机验证还是仅需注册；例如 Groq 和 Google Gemini 完全不需要卡，而 NVIDIA NIM 需要手机验证。
这个清单保持更新吗？是的，数据通过自动化监控每日刷新，而不是一成不变的过时清单。
这些密钥能用于我现有的基于 OpenAI 的工具吗？可以，列出的每个提供商都提供 OpenAI 兼容端点，任何接受 baseURL 和 apiKey 的工具只要换成该提供商的值即可使用。
freellm.net 是什么？它是配套网站，你可以在上面浏览所有提供商和模型、在演练场中测试它们，并生成可直接粘贴的配置片段。
哪家提供商提供最大的上下文窗口？xAI 列出的上下文最大，达 200 万 token；NVIDIA NIM、Google Gemini、Alibaba Cloud Model Studio 等其他几家最高提供 100 万 token。
What are similar projects?free-ai-tools, awesome-free-llm-apis, public-api-lists, opencodex, awesome-mcp-servers, ai-guide, ai-coding-welfare, public-apis
Which topics is it in?free-api, api-list, cursor-ai, groq, directory, codex-cli, byok, openrouter, ai-tools, llm-inference, cloudflare, openclaw
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