Index

Providers

Every provider this radar knows about, whether it currently offers free access or not. Listed alphabetically, never ranked — the figures are there so you can decide, not so we can tell you who wins.

39 providers tracked
ProviderTypeCountryFree models listedLive offersStatusOfficial site
AI/ML API

Aggregator with a free plan and a small starter token allocation.

aggregatorNot stated——ACTIVEOfficial
AIHubMix

OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible gateway that subsidises a set of *-free model ids at its own cost.

gatewayUS4747ACTIVEOfficial
Alibaba Model Studio

Per-model token grant with a ninety-day window and no identity check needed.

vendorCN——ACTIVEOfficial
AMD Token Factory

Vendor-run free model API with both OpenAI and Anthropic dialects.

vendorNot stated—1ACTIVEOfficial
AnyRouter

Auto-routing gateway that prefers $0 upstream capacity before paid fallbacks.

routerNot stated1931ACTIVEOfficial
APMix

Community events that open one enormous shared token pool on a frontier model for every account.

gatewayNL——ACTIVEOfficial
Baidu Qianfan

Per-model token grants across seventeen models, time-boxed.

vendorCN——ACTIVEOfficial
Cerebras

API access stays inactive until a verified payment method is added.

vendorUS——ACTIVEOfficial
Chutes

Confidential-compute inference. Free tier retired 15 March 2026.

gatewayNot stated——ACTIVEOfficial
Cloudflare Workers AI

Edge inference metered in neurons, with a daily free allocation.

vendorUS—1ACTIVEOfficial
Cohere

Trial API access, explicitly restricted to non-commercial use.

vendorCA—1ACTIVEOfficial
Fireworks AI

A small signup credit, cardless, on prepaid billing.

vendorUS—1ACTIVEOfficial
FreeTheAI

Discord-keyed public API serving donated and sponsored capacity across several upstream providers.

gatewayNot stated481ACTIVEOfficial
GitHub Models

Retired 30 July 2026. Retained as a historical record.

vendorUS——SHUT DOWNOfficial
Google AI Studio

Gemini models free of charge on a cardless tier, with the longest context of any first-party offer.

vendorUS—1ACTIVEOfficial
Groq

LPU inference at very high token rates on a cardless free plan.

vendorUS—1ACTIVEOfficial
Hugging Face Inference

Inference router fronting many upstream providers against a monthly credit.

routerUS—1ACTIVEOfficial
joule

Community cluster of donated idle GPUs. The public pool costs no cash, only compute.

communityNot stated——ACTIVEOfficial
Kilo Gateway

Keyless per-IP gateway route over a shared pool of free model capacity.

gatewayNot stated1727ACQUIREDOfficial
LLM7

Key-optional donor-funded tier reaching a small set of open models.

gatewayNot stated712ACTIVEOfficial
Mistral

Standing free mode with hidden limits readable only in the admin panel.

vendorFR—1ACTIVEOfficial
ModelScope

Daily call allowance across a community model catalogue.

communityCN—1ACTIVEOfficial
Moonshot Kimi

Sign-up voucher valid three months, excluded from the newest model.

vendorCN—1ACTIVEOfficial
Nebius AI Cloud

Free trial suspended 13 July 2026. Builder Program still grants expiring credit.

vendorNot stated——ACTIVEOfficial
Novita AI

Two models priced at zero in and zero out.

aggregatorNot stated—1ACTIVEOfficial
NVIDIA NIM

Vendor-hosted open-model catalogue with a cardless prototyping rate limit.

vendorUS—1ACTIVEOfficial
OpenCode Zen

The full frontier catalogue with a subset of ids served free inside the coding agent.

gatewayNot stated921ACTIVEOfficial
OpenRouter

Model router whose :free variant costs zero per input and output token.

routerUS1926ACTIVEOfficial
Pollinations

Community endpoint with an anonymous keyless text route and a Pollen-metered catalogue.

gatewayEE11ACTIVEOfficial
SambaNova

RDU inference on a cardless tier defined as having no payment method linked.

vendorUS—1ACTIVEOfficial
SiliconFlow

Sign-up voucher plus a set of genuinely zero-cost embedding and speech models.

gatewayCN—1ACTIVEOfficial
sponsored/tokens

Public pool of frontier-model tokens funded by third-party sponsors.

sponsoredEE—1ACTIVEOfficial
StepFun

Free trial ended 18 July 2026. Paid only.

vendorCN——ACTIVEOfficial
Tencent TokenHub

A million shared tokens for a year across all language models.

vendorCN——ACTIVEOfficial
Together AI

Free tier removed July 2025; a minimum credit purchase is now required.

vendorUS——ACTIVEOfficial
Tokenator

Free model id on a separate daily allowance from the paid key limit.

gatewayNot stated—1ACTIVEOfficial
Vercel AI Gateway

Monthly gateway credit that requires a payment method before it can be spent.

routerUS——ACTIVEOfficial
Volcengine Ark

Per-model token grants, plus a programme that pays credit for inference data.

vendorCN——ACTIVEOfficial
Z.ai

GLM Flash models priced free at every token position, input and output alike.

vendorCN—1ACTIVEOfficial