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Free LLM API news & guides
Guides, comparisons, data reports and weekly catalog updates on every genuinely free LLM API — drawn from a live catalog.
The State of Free LLM APIs 2026
A data report on the free-tier landscape: providers, models, and trends.
All guides and reports
New free LLM models this week
The newest models to hit free tiers, straight from the live catalog.
Best free LLM APIs 2026
Ten genuinely free LLM APIs worth using — ranked, with real limits.
Unlimited free AI tokens?
No free AI API is unlimited. The closest real thing: 7.4 billion free tokens a month behind one key.
How to get a free LLM API key
Get a working key in minutes — no credit card required.
FreeLLMAPI vs OpenRouter
How the two compare for free access, limits, and key privacy.
An OpenRouter free alternative
Hitting OpenRouter's 50/day free cap? The self-hosted alternative with no cap.
Free models removed from OpenRouter?
What a self-hosted router does when a provider drops a free model, and what it cannot do.
FreeLLMAPI vs Portkey
Free vs a $49/month Production tier — pricing, key storage and log retention.
A Portkey alternative
Portkey's free tier is not for production. The open-source gateway you host yourself.
FreeLLMAPI vs LiteLLM
Free tokens against free software: what a self-hosted proxy cannot give you.
Free LLM API gateways compared
OpenRouter, Requesty, LLM Gateway and Bytez against a self-hosted router, in one table.
Free Gemini API
Google AI Studio's permanent free tier — Gemini and Gemma, no credit card.
Free DeepSeek API
DeepSeek V3, R1 and V4 served free across multiple providers.
Free Llama API
Meta's Llama models free across 9 providers, behind one key.
Free Cloudflare Workers AI API
Cloudflare Workers AI: 10,000 free Neurons/day across Llama, Qwen, Mistral, GLM and image models.
Free Cohere API
Cohere's free trial key: Command A, Command R, Aya and rerank/embed models.
Free Gemma API
Google's open Gemma models, free across 10 providers, Google AI Studio itself included.
Free GLM (Z.ai / Zhipu) API
Z.ai's free GLM Flash models — GLM-4.5/4.6/4.7 Flash on a no-Chinese-phone international endpoint.
Free GPT-OSS API
OpenAI's open-weight GPT-OSS 20B and 120B, free across 7 providers.
Free Groq API
Groq's blazing-fast LPU inference — GPT-OSS, Llama, Qwen and Whisper on a free developer tier.
Free Kimi API
Moonshot's Kimi models, served free via HuggingFace Router and Sail Research — no Moonshot account needed.
Free LLM API: What's Genuinely Free in 2026
A free LLM API is an endpoint that serves real model inference on a permanent no-payment tier — not a trial, not a signup credit that runs out. Right now that is 343+ models across
Free Mistral API
Mistral's free 'Experiment' tier: Large, Medium, Small, Codestral, Devstral and more.
Free NVIDIA API
NVIDIA NIM's recurring free tier (build.nvidia.com) — DeepSeek, Llama, Nemotron and Gemma at 40 RPM.
Free Ollama Cloud API
Ollama Cloud's free tier — run GPT-OSS, Gemma 4, MiniMax and Nemotron in the cloud, no GPU.
Free OpenRouter API
OpenRouter's :free model pool — dozens of open models at no cost, no card to start.
Free Qwen API
Alibaba's Qwen and Qwen-Coder models, free across 8 providers.
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