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    A list of free LLM inference resources accessible via API.

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    Use Cases & Benefits

    • This repository provides a curated list of free and trial-based LLM inference APIs for easy access to various large language models.
    • It covers popular LLMs like Llama, Gemini, Mistral, Qwen, and OpenAI GPT variants, with usage limits and access details for each provider.
    • Strengths include extensive coverage of legitimate free LLM APIs and clear usage limits; limitations involve dependency on third-party service availability and quota restrictions.
    • Organizations can leverage this resource to prototype or integrate LLM capabilities cost-effectively before committing to paid plans in production.
    • Ideal for developers and researchers seeking no-cost or low-cost API access to diverse LLMs for experimentation, development, and small-scale applications.

    About 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

    Limits:

    20 requests/minute
    50 requests/day
    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 2.5 Pro3,000,000 tokens/day
    125,000 tokens/minute
    50 requests/day
    2 requests/minute
    Gemini 2.5 Flash250,000 tokens/minute
    250 requests/day
    10 requests/minute
    Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite250,000 tokens/minute
    1,000 requests/day
    15 requests/minute
    Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview (Nano Banana)
    Gemini 2.0 Flash1,000,000 tokens/minute
    200 requests/day
    15 requests/minute
    Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite1,000,000 tokens/minute
    200 requests/day
    30 requests/minute
    Gemini 2.0 Flash (Experimental)250,000 tokens/minute
    50 requests/day
    10 requests/minute
    Gemini 1.5 Flash250,000 tokens/minute
    50 requests/day
    15 requests/minute
    Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B250,000 tokens/minute
    50 requests/day
    15 requests/minute
    LearnLM 2.0 Flash (Experimental)1,500 requests/day
    15 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
    Qwen 3 235B A22B Thinking30 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 Coder 480B10 requests/minute
    150,000 tokens/minute
    100 requests/hour
    1,000,000 tokens/hour
    100 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
    Llama 4 Scout30 requests/minute
    60,000 tokens/minute
    900 requests/hour
    1,000,000 tokens/hour
    14,400 requests/day
    1,000,000 tokens/day
    Llama 4 Maverick30 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 NameModel Limits
    Allam 2 7B7,000 requests/day
    6,000 tokens/minute
    DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B1,000 requests/day
    6,000 tokens/minute
    Gemma 2 9B Instruct14,400 requests/day
    15,000 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
    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
    qwen/qwen3-32b1,000 requests/day
    6,000 tokens/minute

    Together (Free)

    Limits: Up to 60 requests/minute

    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 08-2024
    • Cohere Command R+ 08-2024
    • Cohere Embed v3 English
    • Cohere Embed v3 Multilingual
    • DeepSeek-R1
    • DeepSeek-R1-0528
    • DeepSeek-V3-0324
    • Grok 3
    • Grok 3 Mini
    • 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-3.1-405B-Instruct
    • Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct
    • Ministral 3B
    • Mistral Large 24.11
    • Mistral Medium 3 (25.05)
    • Mistral Nemo
    • 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/openai/gpt-oss-120b
    • @cf/openai/gpt-oss-20b
    • 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 (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 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

    Together

    Credits: $1 when you add a payment method

    Models: Various open models

    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

    nCompass

    Credits: $1

    Models: Various open models

    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
    • openai/gpt-oss-120b
    • openai/gpt-oss-120b-turbo
    • openai/gpt-oss-20b
    • qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507-fp8
    • qwen/qwen3-coder-480b-a35b-instruct-fp8
    • 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 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
    • Qwen/Qwen3-32B
    • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1
    • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528
    • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-70B
    • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324
    • deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1
    • test-model

    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
    • Mistral Small 3.1 24B Instruct 2503
    • Pixtral 12B (2409)
    • Qwen2.5 Coder 32B Instruct
    • devstral-small-2505
    • gpt-oss-120b
    • mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506
    • qwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507
    • qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct
    • voxtral-small-24b-2507

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