awesome-free-llm-apis
List of Permanent Free LLM API (API Keys)
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Editor's note
This curated list catalogs LLM API providers that offer permanent or long-term free tiers for text inference, organizing them into two sections: provider APIs (run by companies that train or fine-tune their own models) and inference providers (third-party hosting services). Each entry links directly to the provider's API key page and includes a structured table of available models with context window sizes, maximum output tokens, supported modalities, and rate limits. Covered providers include Google Gemini, Mistral AI, Cohere, DeepSeek, AI21 Labs, Alibaba Cloud, and xAI, among others. All listed endpoints are OpenAI SDK-compatible unless noted, making it straightforward to substitute them into existing API client code. Notably, Gemini 2.5 Pro is available on the free tier with a 2M token context window, though access is restricted in the EU, UK, and Switzerland. The list is tagged for use with Anthropic tooling and OpenClaw, suggesting relevance to developers building Claude-adjacent or multi-provider AI agent workflows on a budget.
Awesome Lists overview
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.
All of those free LLM APIs are available at manifest.build - make reliable agents.
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Provider APIs
APIs run by the companies that train or fine-tune the models themselves.
Aion Labs 🇮🇱
Permanent free tier, no credit card required. 15 RPM, 20K tokens/day. Specialized for roleplay and storytelling.
Base URL: https://api.aionlabs.ai/v1
| Model Name | Context | Max Output | Modality | Rate Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
aion-labs/aion-2.0 | 128K | 32K | Text (reasoning) | 15 RPM, 20K TPD |
aion-labs/aion-rp-llama-3.1-8b | 32K | 32K | Text | 15 RPM, 20K TPD |
aion-labs/aion-3.0 | 128K | 32K | Text (reasoning) | 15 RPM, 20K TPD |
aion-labs/aion-3.0-mini | 128K | 32K | Text (reasoning) | 15 RPM, 20K TPD |
Cohere 🇨🇦
Free "Trial" API key, no credit card. 1,000 API calls/month. Non-commercial use only.
Base URL: https://api.cohere.com/v2
| Model Name | Context | Max Output | Modality | Rate Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Command A+ (218B) | 128K | 64K | Text + Image | 20 RPM |
| Command A (111B) | 256K | 8K | Text | 20 RPM |
| Command R+ | 128K | 4K | Text | 20 RPM |
| Command R | 128K | 4K | Text | 20 RPM |
| Command R7B | 128K | 4K | Text | 20 RPM |
| Command A Reasoning | 256K | 32K | Text (reasoning) | 20 RPM |
| Command A Translate | 8K | 8K | Text | 20 RPM |
| Command A Vision | 128K | 8K | Text + Image | 20 RPM |
| Command R7B Arabic | 128K | ~4K | Text | 20 RPM |
| Aya Expanse 32B | 128K | 4K | Text | 20 RPM |
| Aya Vision 32B | 16K | 4K | Text + Image | 20 RPM |
Google Gemini 🇺🇸
Free tier, no credit card. Free-tier prompts may be used by Google to improve products. [^1]
Base URL: https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta
| Model Name | Context | Max Output | Modality | Rate Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | 1M | 65K | Text + Image + Audio + Video | — |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | 1M | 65K | Text + Image + Audio + Video | — |
| Gemini 3.6 Flash | 1M | 65K | Text + Image + Audio + Video | 15 RPM, 1,500 RPD |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1M | 65K | Text + Image + Audio + Video | 15 RPM, 1,500 RPD |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | 1M | 65K | Text + Image + Audio + Video | 30 RPM, 1,500 RPD |
| Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite | 1M | 65K | Text + Image + Audio + Video | 30 RPM, 1,500 RPD |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash | 1M | 65K | Text + Image + Audio + Video | 15 RPM, 1,500 RPD |
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | 1M | 65K | Text + Image + Audio + Video | 30 RPM, 1,500 RPD |
| Gemini 2.5 Pro | 1M | 65K | Text + Image + Audio + Video | 5 RPM, 50 RPD |
| Gemma 4 31B | 256K | 32K | Text | — |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B | 256K | 32K | Text | — |
Mistral AI 🇫🇷
Free mode, enabled by default, no credit card required. $10/month in API credits, and free-mode prompts may be used to train Mistral models unless you opt out. [^13]
Base URL: https://api.mistral.ai/v1
| Model Name | Context | Max Output | Modality | Rate Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mistral Medium 3.5 (128B) | 256K | — | Text + Image + Code | ~1 RPS, 500K TPM |
| Mistral Small 4 | 256K | — | Text + Image + Code | ~1 RPS, 500K TPM |
| Mistral Large 3 | 256K | — | Multimodal | ~1 RPS, 500K TPM |
| Ministral 3 8B | 256K | — | Text + Vision | ~1 RPS, 500K TPM |
| Codestral | 128K | — | Code | ~1 RPS, 500K TPM |
| Ministral 3 3B | 256K | — | Text + Vision | ~1 RPS, 500K TPM |
| Ministral 3 14B | 256K | — | Text + Vision | ~1 RPS, 500K TPM |
Z AI (Zhipu AI) 🇨🇳
Permanent free models, no credit card required. [^12]
Base URL: https://open.bigmodel.cn/api/paas/v4
| Model Name | Context | Max Output | Modality | Rate Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM-4.7-Flash | 200K | 128K | Text (reasoning) | 1 concurrent request |
| GLM-4.5-Flash (retirement announced) | 128K | 96K | Text (reasoning) | 1 concurrent request |
| GLM-4.6V-Flash | 128K | 32K | Multimodal | 1 concurrent request |
Inference providers
Third-party platforms that host open-weight models from various sources.
Cloudflare Workers AI 🇺🇸
10,000 Neurons/day free, no credit card required. 60+ models available on the free tier. [^11]
Base URL: https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/run
| Model Name | Context | Max Output | Modality | Rate Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast | 24K | Shared w/ context | Text | 10K neurons/day (shared) |
@cf/meta/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct | 131K | Shared w/ context | Multimodal | 10K neurons/day (shared) |
@cf/openai/gpt-oss-120b | 128K | Shared w/ context | Text | 10K neurons/day (shared) |
@cf/google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it | 256K | Shared w/ context | Text + Vision | 10K neurons/day (shared) |
@cf/zai-org/glm-4.7-flash | 131K | Shared w/ context | Text | 10K neurons/day (shared) |
@cf/mistralai/mistral-small-3.1-24b-instruct | 128K | Shared w/ context | Text + Vision | 10K neurons/day (shared) |
@cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b | 80K | Shared w/ context | Text (reasoning) | 10K neurons/day (shared) |
| + 55 more models | Varies | Varies | Text, Image, Audio, Embeddings | 10K neurons/day (shared) |
Groq 🇺🇸
Free tier, no credit card. Ultra-fast LPU inference. [^2]
Base URL: https://api.groq.com/openai/v1
| Model Name | Context | Max Output | Modality | Rate Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
openai/gpt-oss-120b | 131K | 65K | Text | 30 RPM, 1,000 RPD |
openai/gpt-oss-20b | 131K | 65K | Text | 30 RPM, 1,000 RPD |
qwen/qwen3.8-27b | 131K | 16K | Text | 30 RPM, 1,000 RPD |
Hugging Face 🇺🇸
$0.10/month in Inference Provider credits for free users (subject to change). Routes to Fireworks, Together, Hyperbolic, Nebius, Novita, DeepInfra and others. Thousands of models.
Base URL: https://router.huggingface.co/v1
| Model Name | Context | Max Output | Modality | Rate Limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct | 128K | ~4K | Text | Credit-metered |
| gemma-3-4b-it | 131K | ~4K | Text | Credit-metered |
| phi-4 | 16K | ~4K | Text | Credit-metered |
| Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct | 131K | ~4K | Text | Credit-metered |
| Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct | 131K | ~4K | Text | Credit-metered |
| + thousands of community models | Varies | Varies | Text, Image, Audio, Embeddings | Credit-metered |
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