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A list of free LLM inference resources accessible via API.

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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

Limits:

20 requests/minute
50 requests/day
Up to 1000 requests/day with $10 lifetime topup

Models share a common quota.

Google AI Studio

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

Model NameModel Limits
Gemini 3 Flash250,000 tokens/minute
20 requests/day
5 requests/minute
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite250,000 tokens/minute
500 requests/day
15 requests/minute
Gemini 2.5 Flash250,000 tokens/minute
20 requests/day
5 requests/minute
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite250,000 tokens/minute
20 requests/day
10 requests/minute
Gemma 3 27B Instruct15,000 tokens/minute
14,400 requests/day
30 requests/minute
Gemma 3 12B Instruct15,000 tokens/minute
14,400 requests/day
30 requests/minute
Gemma 3 4B Instruct15,000 tokens/minute
14,400 requests/day
30 requests/minute
Gemma 3 1B Instruct15,000 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 (per-model): 1 request/second, 500,000 tokens/minute, 1,000,000,000 tokens/month

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

Vercel AI Gateway

Routes to various supported providers.

Limits: $5/month

Cerebras

Model NameModel Limits
gpt-oss-120b30 requests/minute
60,000 tokens/minute
900 requests/hour
1,000,000 tokens/hour
14,400 requests/day
1,000,000 tokens/day
Qwen 3 235B A22B Instruct30 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 70B30 requests/minute
64,000 tokens/minute
900 requests/hour
1,000,000 tokens/hour
14,400 requests/day
1,000,000 tokens/day
Qwen 3 32B30 requests/minute
64,000 tokens/minute
900 requests/hour
1,000,000 tokens/hour
14,400 requests/day
1,000,000 tokens/day
Llama 3.1 8B30 requests/minute
60,000 tokens/minute
900 requests/hour
1,000,000 tokens/hour
14,400 requests/day
1,000,000 tokens/day
Z.ai GLM-4.610 requests/minute
60,000 tokens/minute
100 requests/hour
100,000 tokens/hour
100 requests/day
1,000,000 tokens/day

Groq

Model NameModel Limits
Allam 2 7B7,000 requests/day
6,000 tokens/minute
Llama 3.1 8B14,400 requests/day
6,000 tokens/minute
Llama 3.3 70B1,000 requests/day
12,000 tokens/minute
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct1,000 requests/day
6,000 tokens/minute
Llama 4 Scout Instruct1,000 requests/day
30,000 tokens/minute
Whisper Large v37,200 audio-seconds/minute
2,000 requests/day
Whisper Large v3 Turbo7,200 audio-seconds/minute
2,000 requests/day
canopylabs/orpheus-arabic-saudi
canopylabs/orpheus-v1-english
groq/compound250 requests/day
70,000 tokens/minute
groq/compound-mini250 requests/day
70,000 tokens/minute
meta-llama/llama-guard-4-12b14,400 requests/day
15,000 tokens/minute
meta-llama/llama-prompt-guard-2-22m
meta-llama/llama-prompt-guard-2-86m
moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct1,000 requests/day
10,000 tokens/minute
moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-09051,000 requests/day
10,000 tokens/minute
openai/gpt-oss-120b1,000 requests/day
8,000 tokens/minute
openai/gpt-oss-20b1,000 requests/day
8,000 tokens/minute
openai/gpt-oss-safeguard-20b1,000 requests/day
8,000 tokens/minute
qwen/qwen3-32b1,000 requests/day
6,000 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-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
  • tiny-aya-earth
  • tiny-aya-fire
  • tiny-aya-global
  • tiny-aya-water

GitHub Models

Extremely restrictive input/output token limits.

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

  • AI21 Jamba 1.5 Large
  • Codestral 25.01
  • Cohere Command A
  • Cohere Command R 08-2024
  • Cohere Command R+ 08-2024
  • DeepSeek-R1
  • DeepSeek-R1-0528
  • DeepSeek-V3-0324
  • Grok 3
  • Grok 3 Mini
  • 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-3.1-405B-Instruct
  • Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
  • Ministral 3B
  • Mistral Medium 3 (25.05)
  • 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 gpt-5
  • OpenAI gpt-5-chat (preview)
  • OpenAI gpt-5-mini
  • OpenAI gpt-5-nano
  • OpenAI o1
  • OpenAI o1-mini
  • OpenAI o1-preview
  • OpenAI o3
  • OpenAI o3-mini
  • OpenAI o4-mini
  • Phi-4
  • Phi-4-mini-instruct
  • Phi-4-mini-reasoning
  • Phi-4-multimodal-instruct
  • Phi-4-reasoning

Cloudflare Workers AI

Limits: 10,000 neurons/day

  • @cf/aisingapore/gemma-sea-lion-v4-27b-it
  • @cf/ibm-granite/granite-4.0-h-micro
  • @cf/openai/gpt-oss-120b
  • @cf/openai/gpt-oss-20b
  • @cf/qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-fp8
  • @cf/zai-org/glm-4.7-flash
  • 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 (AWQ)
  • 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
  • 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 NameModel Limits
Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct30 requests/minute
Free during preview
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct60 requests/minute
Free during preview
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct60 requests/minute
Free during preview

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

Models: Various open and proprietary Qwen models

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

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
  • DeepSeek V3 0324
  • Llama 3.1 405B Base
  • 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
  • Qwen2.5 72B Instruct
  • Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
  • Qwen2.5 VL 72B Instruct
  • Qwen2.5 VL 7B Instruct
  • deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-0528
  • openai/gpt-oss-120b
  • openai/gpt-oss-120b-turbo
  • openai/gpt-oss-20b
  • qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b
  • qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507
  • qwen/qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct
  • qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct
  • qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-thinking

SambaNova Cloud

Credits: $5 for 3 months

Models:

  • E5-Mistral-7B-Instruct
  • Llama 3.1 8B
  • Llama 3.3 70B
  • Llama 3.3 70B
  • Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct
  • Qwen/Qwen3-235B
  • Qwen/Qwen3-32B
  • Whisper-Large-v3
  • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528
  • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
  • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324
  • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1
  • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus
  • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2
  • openai/gpt-oss-120b
  • tbd

Scaleway Generative APIs

Credits: 1,000,000 free tokens

Models:

  • BGE-Multilingual-Gemma2
  • DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B
  • Gemma 3 27B Instruct
  • Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
  • Llama 3.3 70B Instruct
  • Mistral Nemo 2407
  • Pixtral 12B (2409)
  • Whisper Large v3
  • devstral-2-123b-instruct-2512
  • gpt-oss-120b
  • holo2-30b-a3b
  • mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506
  • qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507
  • qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct
  • qwen3-embedding-8b
  • voxtral-small-24b-2507

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