cheahjs / 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 • Vercel AI Gateway • OpenCode Zen • Cerebras • Groq • Cohere • GitHub Models • 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. • Gemma 3 12B Instruct • Gemma 3 27B Instruct • Gemma 3 4B Instruct • Hermes 3 Llama 3.1 405B • Llama 3.2 3B Instruct • Llama 3.3 70B Instruct • Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct • arcee-ai/trinity-large-preview:free • arcee-ai/trinity-mini:free • cognitivecomputations/dolphin-mistral-24b-venice-edition:free • google/gemma-3n-e2b-it:free • google/gemma-3n-e4b-it:free • liquid/lfm-2.5-1.2b-instruct:free • liquid/lfm-2.5-1.2b-thinking:free • nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free • nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl:free • nvidia/nemotron-nano-9b-v2:free • openai/gpt-oss-120b:free • openai/gpt-oss-20b:free • qwen/qwen3-4b:free • qwen/qwen3-coder:free • qwen/qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct:free • stepfun/step-3.5-flash:free • z-ai/glm-4.5-air:free Google AI Studio Data is used for training when used outside of the UK/CH/EEA/EU. Model Name Model Limits Gemini 3 Flash 250,000 tokens/minute 20 requests/day 5 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 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 • 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 Vercel AI Gateway Routes to various supported providers. **Limits:** $5/month OpenCode Zen AI gateway with curated models. Free models may use data for improvement. • Big Pickle Stealth • MiniMax M2.5 Free • Arcee Large Preview Free Cerebras Model Name Model Limits gpt-oss-120b 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 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 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 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 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-guard-4-12b 14,400 requests/day 15,000 tokens/minute meta-llama/llama-prompt-guard-2-22m meta-llama/llama-prompt-guard-2-86m moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct 1,000 requests/day 10,000 tokens/minute moonshotai/kimi-k2-instruct-0905 1,000 requests/day 10,000 tokens/minute 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/qwen3-32b 1,000 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…