free-llm-api-resources

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
  • Cerebras
  • Groq
  • OVH AI Endpoints (Free Beta)
  • Together (Free)
  • Cohere
  • GitHub Models
  • Chutes
  • Cloudflare Workers AI
  • Google Cloud Vertex AI
• Providers with trial credits
  • Together
  • Fireworks
  • Unify
  • Baseten
  • Nebius
  • Novita
  • AI21
  • Upstage
  • NLP Cloud
  • Alibaba Cloud (International) Model Studio
  • Modal
  • Hyperbolic
  • SambaNova Cloud
  • Scaleway Generative APIs

Free Providers

OpenRouter

Limits:

20 requests/minute
50 requests/day
1000 requests/day with $10 credit balance

Models share a common quota.

• Bytedance UI Tars 72B
• DeepCoder 14B Preview
• DeepHermes 3 Llama 3 8B Preview
• DeepSeek R1
• DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
• DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B
• DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
• DeepSeek R1 Zero
• DeepSeek V3
• DeepSeek V3 0324
• DeepSeek V3 Base
• Dolphin 3.0 Mistral 24B
• Dolphin 3.0 R1 Mistral 24B
• Featherless Qwerky 72B
• Gemma 2 9B Instruct
• Gemma 3 12B Instruct
• Gemma 3 1B Instruct
• Gemma 3 27B Instruct
• Gemma 3 4B Instruct
• Kimi VL A3B Thinking
• Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
• Llama 3.1 Nemotron Nano 8B v1
• Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1
• Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct
• Llama 3.2 1B Instruct
• Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
• Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
• Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1
• Llama 4 Maverick
• Llama 4 Scout
• Mistral 7B Instruct
• Mistral Nemo
• Mistral Small 24B Instruct 2501
• Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
• Molmo 7B D
• Moonlight-16B-A3B-Instruct
• OlympicCoder 32B
• QwQ 32B ArliAI RpR v1
• Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct
• Qwen 2.5 7B Instruct
• Qwen 2.5 VL 32B Instruct
• Qwen 2.5 VL 3B Instruct
• Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct
• Qwen QwQ 32B
• Qwen QwQ 32B Preview
• Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
• Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
• Reka Flash 3
• Rogue Rose 103B v0.2
• Shisa V2 Llama 3.3 70B
• Zephyr 7B Beta
• meta-llama/llama-3.1-405b:free
• microsoft/mai-ds-r1:free
• thudm/glm-4-32b:free
• thudm/glm-4-9b:free
• thudm/glm-z1-32b:free
• thudm/glm-z1-9b:free

Google AI Studio

Data is used for training when used outside of the UK/CH/EEA/EU.

Model Name	Model Limits
Gemini 2.5 Pro (Experimental)	1,000,000 tokens/day 250,000 tokens/minute 25 requests/day 5 requests/minute
Gemini 2.5 Flash (Preview)	250,000 tokens/minute 500 requests/day 10 requests/minute
Gemini 2.0 Flash	1,000,000 tokens/minute 1,500 requests/day 15 requests/minute
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite	1,000,000 tokens/minute 1,500 requests/day 30 requests/minute
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Experimental)	4,000,000 tokens/minute 1,500 requests/day 10 requests/minute
Gemini 1.5 Flash	1,000,000 tokens/minute 1,500 requests/day 15 requests/minute
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B	1,000,000 tokens/minute 1,500 requests/day 15 requests/minute
Gemini 1.5 Pro	32,000 tokens/minute 50 requests/day 2 requests/minute
LearnLM 1.5 Pro (Experimental)	1,500 requests/day 15 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
text-embedding-004	150 batch requests/minute 1,500 requests/minute 100 content/batch Shared Quota
embedding-001

NVIDIA NIM

Phone number verification required. Models tend to be context window limited.

Limits: 40 requests/minute

• Various open models

Mistral (La Plateforme)

• Free tier (Experiment plan) requires opting into data training
• Requires phone number verification.

Limits (per-model): 1 request/second, 500,000 tokens/minute, 1,000,000,000 tokens/month

• 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

• Codestral

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

Cerebras

Free tier restricted to 8K context.

Model Name	Model Limits
Llama 4 Scout	30 requests/minute 60,000 tokens/minute 900 requests/hour 1,000,000 tokens/hour 14,400 requests/day 1,000,000 tokens/day
Llama 3.1 8B	30 requests/minute 60,000 tokens/minute 900 requests/hour 1,000,000 tokens/hour 14,400 requests/day 1,000,000 tokens/day
Llama 3.3 70B	30 requests/minute 60,000 tokens/minute 900 requests/hour 1,000,000 tokens/hour 14,400 requests/day 1,000,000 tokens/day

Groq

Model Name	Model Limits
Allam 2 7B	7,000 requests/day 6,000 tokens/minute
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B	1,000 requests/day 6,000 tokens/minute
Distil Whisper Large v3	7,200 audio-seconds/minute 2,000 requests/day
Gemma 2 9B Instruct	14,400 requests/day 15,000 tokens/minute
Groq compound-beta	200 requests/day 70,000 tokens/minute
Groq compound-beta-mini	200 requests/day 70,000 tokens/minute
Llama 3 70B	14,400 requests/day 6,000 tokens/minute
Llama 3 8B	14,400 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
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct	1,000 requests/day 6,000 tokens/minute
Llama 4 Scout Instruct	1,000 requests/day 30,000 tokens/minute
Llama Guard 3 8B	14,400 requests/day 15,000 tokens/minute
Mistral Saba 24B	1,000 requests/day 6,000 tokens/minute
Qwen QwQ 32B	1,000 requests/day 6,000 tokens/minute
Whisper Large v3	7,200 audio-seconds/minute 2,000 requests/day
Whisper Large v3 Turbo	7,200 audio-seconds/minute 2,000 requests/day

OVH AI Endpoints (Free Beta)

Model Name	Model Limits
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B	12 requests/minute
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct	12 requests/minute
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct	12 requests/minute
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct	12 requests/minute
Llava Next Mistral 7B	12 requests/minute
Mamba Codestral 7B v0.1	12 requests/minute
Mistral 7B Instruct v0.3	12 requests/minute
Mistral Nemo 2407	12 requests/minute
Mixtral 8x7B Instruct v0.1	12 requests/minute
Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct	12 requests/minute
Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct	12 requests/minute

Together (Free)

Limits: Up to 60 requests/minute

• Llama 3.2 11B Vision Instruct
• Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
• DeepSeek R1 Distil Llama 70B

Cohere

Limits:

20 requests/minute
1,000 requests/month

Models share a common quota.

• Command-A
• Command-R7B
• Command-R+
• Command-R
• Aya Expanse 8B
• Aya Expanse 32B
• Aya Vision 8B
• Aya Vision 32B

GitHub Models

Extremely restrictive input/output token limits.

Limits: Dependent on Copilot subscription tier (Free/Pro/Pro+/Business/Enterprise)

• AI21 Jamba 1.5 Large
• AI21 Jamba 1.5 Mini
• Codestral 25.01
• Cohere Command A
• Cohere Command R
• Cohere Command R 08-2024
• Cohere Command R+
• Cohere Command R+ 08-2024
• Cohere Embed 4
• Cohere Embed v3 English
• Cohere Embed v3 Multilingual
• DeepSeek-R1
• DeepSeek-V3-0324
• JAIS 30b Chat
• Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct FP8
• Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct
• Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct
• Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct
• Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
• MAI-DS-R1
• Meta-Llama-3-70B-Instruct
• Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
• Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct
• Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct
• Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
• Ministral 3B
• Mistral Large (2407)
• Mistral Large 24.11
• Mistral Nemo
• Mistral Small
• Mistral Small 3.1
• OpenAI GPT-4.1
• OpenAI GPT-4.1-mini
• OpenAI GPT-4.1-nano
• OpenAI GPT-4o
• OpenAI GPT-4o mini
• OpenAI Text Embedding 3 (large)
• OpenAI Text Embedding 3 (small)
• OpenAI o1
• OpenAI o1-mini
• OpenAI o1-preview
• OpenAI o3
• OpenAI o3-mini
• OpenAI o4-mini
• Phi-3-medium instruct (128k)
• Phi-3-medium instruct (4k)
• Phi-3-mini instruct (128k)
• Phi-3-mini instruct (4k)
• Phi-3-small instruct (128k)
• Phi-3-small instruct (8k)
• Phi-3.5-MoE instruct (128k)
• Phi-3.5-mini instruct (128k)
• Phi-3.5-vision instruct (128k)
• Phi-4
• Phi-4-mini-instruct
• Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

Chutes

Distributed, decentralized crypto-based compute. Data is sent to individual hosts.

• DeepCoder 14B Preview
• DeepSeek R1
• DeepSeek R1-Zero
• DeepSeek V3
• DeepSeek V3 0324
• DeepSeek V3 Base
• Dolphin 3.0 Mistral 24B
• Dolphin 3.0 R1 Mistral 24B
• Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B v1
• Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct FP8
• Llama 4 Scout 17B 16E Instruct
• Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct 2503
• QwQ 32B ArliAI RpR v1
• Qwen 2.5 VL 32B Instruct
• Shisa V2 Llama 3.3 70B
• chutesai/llama-3.1-405b-fp8
• microsoft/mai-ds-r1-fp8
• thudm/glm-4-32b-0414
• thudm/glm-z1-32b-0414

Cloudflare Workers AI

Limits: 10,000 neurons/day

• DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
• Deepseek Coder 6.7B Base (AWQ)
• Deepseek Coder 6.7B Instruct (AWQ)
• Deepseek Math 7B Instruct
• Discolm German 7B v1 (AWQ)
• Falcom 7B Instruct
• Gemma 2B Instruct (LoRA)
• Gemma 3 12B Instruct
• Gemma 7B Instruct
• Gemma 7B Instruct (LoRA)
• Hermes 2 Pro Mistral 7B
• Llama 2 13B Chat (AWQ)
• Llama 2 7B Chat (FP16)
• Llama 2 7B Chat (INT8)
• Llama 2 7B Chat (LoRA)
• Llama 3 8B Instruct
• Llama 3 8B Instruct
• Llama 3 8B Instruct (AWQ)
• Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
• Llama 3.1 8B Instruct (AWQ)
• 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
• LlamaGuard 7B (AWQ)
• Mistral 7B Instruct v0.1
• Mistral 7B Instruct v0.1 (AWQ)
• Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2
• Mistral 7B Instruct v0.2 (LoRA)
• Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct
• Neural Chat 7B v3.1 (AWQ)
• OpenChat 3.5 0106
• OpenHermes 2.5 Mistral 7B (AWQ)
• Phi-2
• Qwen 1.5 0.5B Chat
• Qwen 1.5 1.8B Chat
• Qwen 1.5 14B Chat (AWQ)
• Qwen 1.5 7B Chat (AWQ)
• Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
• Qwen QwQ 32B
• SQLCoder 7B 2
• Starling LM 7B Beta
• TinyLlama 1.1B Chat v1.0
• Una Cybertron 7B v2 (BF16)
• Zephyr 7B Beta (AWQ)

Google Cloud Vertex AI

Very stringent payment verification for Google Cloud.

Model Name	Model Limits
Gemini 2.5 Pro (Experimental)	10 requests/minute Shared Quota
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Experimental)
Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking (Experimental)
Gemini 2.0 Pro (Experimental)
Llama 4 Maverick Instruct	60 requests/minute Free during preview
Llama 4 Scout Instruct	60 requests/minute Free during preview
Llama 3.3 70B Instruct	30 requests/minute Free during preview
Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct	30 requests/minute Free during preview
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct	60 requests/minute Free during preview
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct	60 requests/minute Free during preview

Providers with trial credits

Together

Credits: $1 when you add a payment method

Models: Various open models

Fireworks

Credits: $1

Models: Various open models

Unify

Credits: $5 when you add a payment method

Models: Routes to other providers, various open models and proprietary models (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Mistral, Perplexity, etc)

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, $10 for 3 months for LLMs with referral code + GitHub account connection

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: Token/time-limited trials on a per-model basis

Models: Various open and proprietary Qwen models

Modal

Credits: $5/month upon sign up, $30/month with payment method added

Models: Any supported model - pay by compute time

Hyperbolic

Credits: $1

Models:

• DeepSeek V3
• DeepSeek V3 0324
• Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 70B
• Llama 3 70B Instruct
• Llama 3.1 405B Base
• Llama 3.1 405B Base (FP8)
• Llama 3.1 405B Instruct
• Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
• Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
• Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
• Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
• Pixtral 12B (2409)
• Qwen QwQ 32B
• Qwen QwQ 32B Preview
• Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
• Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
• Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
• Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct

SambaNova Cloud

Credits: $5 for 3 months

Models:

• E5-Mistral-7B-Instruct
• Llama 3.1 405B
• Llama 3.1 8B
• Llama 3.2 1B
• Llama 3.2 3B
• Llama 3.3 70B
• Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct
• Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct
• Llama-Guard-3-8B
• Qwen/QwQ-32B
• Qwen/Qwen2-Audio-7B-Instruct
• deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
• deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
• deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324

Scaleway Generative APIs

Credits: 1,000,000 free tokens

Models:

• BGE-Multilingual-Gemma2
• DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
• DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
• Gemma 3 27B Instruct
• Llama 3.1 70B Instruct
• Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
• Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
• Mistral Nemo 2407
• Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct 2503
• Pixtral 12B (2409)
• Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
• sentence-t5-xxl