Those LLM APIs offer permanent free tiers for text inference (no trial or initial credits, permanent tier only).
Contents
- Provider APIs
- Inference providers
Provider APIs
APIs run by the companies that train or fine-tune the models themselves.
Cohere 🇺🇸 - Command A, Command R+, Aya Expanse 32B +9 more. 20 RPM, 1K/mo.
Google Gemini 🇺🇸 - Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash, Flash-Lite +4 more. 5-15 RPM, 100-1K RPD.
Mistral AI 🇪🇺 - Mistral Large 3, Small 3.1, Ministral 8B +3 more. 1 req/s, 1B tok/mo.
Zhipu AI 🇨🇳 - GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.5-Flash, GLM-4.6V-Flash. Limits undocumented.
Inference providers
Third-party platforms that host open-weight models from various sources.
Cerebras 🇺🇸 - Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen3 235B, GPT-OSS-120B +3 more. 30 RPM, 14,400 RPD.
Cloudflare Workers AI 🇺🇸 - Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen QwQ 32B +47 more. 10K neurons/day.
GitHub Models 🇺🇸 - GPT-4o, Llama 3.3 70B, DeepSeek-R1 +more. 10-15 RPM, 50-150 RPD.
Groq 🇺🇸 - Llama 3.3 70B, Llama 4 Scout, Kimi K2 +17 more. 30 RPM, 1K RPD (14,400 for Llama 3.1 8B).
Hugging Face 🇺🇸 - Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen2.5 72B, Mistral 7B +many more. $0.10/mo in free credits.
Kluster AI 🇺🇸 - DeepSeek-R1, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen3-235B +2 more. Limits undocumented.
LLM7.io 🇬🇧 - DeepSeek R1, Flash-Lite, Qwen2.5 Coder +27 more. 30 RPM (120 with token).
NVIDIA NIM 🇺🇸 - Llama 3.3 70B, Mistral Large, Qwen3 235B +more. 40 RPM.
Ollama Cloud 🇺🇸 - DeepSeek-V3.2, Qwen3.5, Kimi-K2.5 +17 more. 1 concurrent model, light usage.
OpenRouter 🇺🇸 - DeepSeek R1, Llama 3.3 70B, GPT-OSS-120B +29 more. 20 RPM, 50 RPD (1K with $10+ in purchased credits).
SiliconFlow 🇨🇳 - Qwen3-8B, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B, GLM-4.1V-9B-Thinking +10 more. 1K RPM, 50K TPM.
Contributing
This list changes fast. Star the GitHub repo to get notified when we add providers, and open a PR if you spot one we missed.
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