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    List of Permanent Free LLM API (API Keys)

    ai-agents
    education
    llm
    ai
    anthropic
    awesome
    awesome-list
    gemini
    llm-router
    JavaScript
    CC0-1.0
    11.0K stars
    1.2K forks
    11.0K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 23, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    Ranks #137 of 2,794 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 5%).

    The project lists 6 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #18 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 20, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a curated list of permanent free large language model (LLM) APIs with API keys for text inference and multimodal capabilities.
    • Enables developers to access multiple free-tier LLM APIs from various providers without credit card requirements or time-limited trials.
    • Use for discovering and integrating free LLM APIs for prototyping AI-powered chatbots and text generation applications.
    • Use for comparing rate limits, context sizes, and modalities across diverse LLM providers to select the best fit for production workloads.
    • Use for exploring multimodal AI models supporting text, image, audio, and code inference in research or educational projects.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    CC0 1.0

    Public-domain style: no conditions on use.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    LLM APIs with permanent free tiers for text inference.

    All endpoints are OpenAI SDK-compatible unless noted. Each link points to the provider's API key page.

    APIs run by the companies that train or fine-tune the models themselves.

    Excerpt from the mnfst/awesome-free-llm-apis README on GitHub (CC0-1.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

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    +4,908 stars over 86 days across 47 snapshot days; best day +158 on Oct 9.

    Forks

    1.2K+645

    Open issues

    51+30

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