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
Providers with trial credits

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 Name	Model Limits
Gemini 2.5 Pro	6,000,000 tokens/day 250,000 tokens/minute 100 requests/day 5 requests/minute
Gemini 2.5 Flash	250,000 tokens/minute 250 requests/day 10 requests/minute
Gemini 2.0 Flash	1,000,000 tokens/minute 200 requests/day 15 requests/minute
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite	1,000,000 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 Flash	250,000 tokens/minute 50 requests/day 15 requests/minute
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B	250,000 tokens/minute 50 requests/day 15 requests/minute
LearnLM 2.0 Flash (Experimental)	1,500 requests/day 15 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
text-embedding-004	150 batch requests/minute 1,500 requests/minute 100 content/batch Shared Quota
embedding-001

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

Cerebras

Free tier restricted to 8K context.

Model Name	Model Limits
Qwen 3 32B	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 4 Scout	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
Llama 3.3 70B	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
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B	1,000 requests/day 6,000 tokens/minute
Distil Whisper Large v3	7,200 audio-seconds/minute 2,000 requests/day
Gemma 2 9B Instruct	14,400 requests/day 15,000 tokens/minute
Groq compound-beta	200 requests/day 70,000 tokens/minute
Groq compound-beta-mini	200 requests/day 70,000 tokens/minute
Llama 3 70B	14,400 requests/day 6,000 tokens/minute
Llama 3 8B	14,400 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
Mistral Saba 24B	1,000 requests/day 6,000 tokens/minute
Qwen QwQ 32B	1,000 requests/day 6,000 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
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
qwen/qwen3-32b	1,000 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
Cohere Command R 08-2024
Cohere Command R+
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-3-70B-Instruct
Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct
Meta-Llama-3.1-405B-Instruct
Meta-Llama-3.1-70B-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 o1
OpenAI o1-mini
OpenAI o1-preview
OpenAI o3
OpenAI o3-mini
OpenAI o4-mini
Phi-3-medium instruct (128k)
Phi-3-medium instruct (4k)
Phi-3-mini instruct (128k)
Phi-3-mini instruct (4k)
Phi-3-small instruct (128k)
Phi-3-small instruct (8k)
Phi-3.5-MoE instruct (128k)
Phi-3.5-mini instruct (128k)
Phi-3.5-vision instruct (128k)
Phi-4
Phi-4-Reasoning
Phi-4-mini-instruct
Phi-4-mini-reasoning
Phi-4-multimodal-instruct

Chutes

Distributed, decentralized crypto-based compute. Data is sent to individual hosts. Limits: 200 requests/day

Various open models

Cloudflare Workers AI

Limits: 10,000 neurons/day

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 Name	Model Limits
Llama 3.2 90B Vision Instruct	30 requests/minute Free during preview
Llama 3.1 70B Instruct	60 requests/minute Free during preview
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct	60 requests/minute Free during preview
DeepSeek R1-0528	60 requests/minute Free during preview