Every free llm api tier that clears our bar in 2026: 6 offers meet the criteria and 6 offers are demoted with a named reason. Our membership test: the vendor runs language or multimodal models on its own infrastructure and sells calls to them by model name; you send a prompt and receive a completion. We could not confirm today's terms for 8 of them: on 2 the page we cite did not answer, and on 6 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.
Free tier: Gemini 3.8 Flash, 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.1 Flash-Lite, Gemini 3 Flash Preview, Gemini Embedding 2 and Gemma 4 are free of charge. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is paid only. Google publishes no free-tier rate limits; each project's limits are shown in Google AI Studio. Google's pricing table marks free-tier use as "Used to improve our products". Since 2026-09-18 Google serves the Gemini 2.5 models only to users who have used them before, and points new projects to 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash. Paid, per million tokens (input/output): Gemini 3.8 Flash $0.75/$3.75 until 2026-12-31, then double; Gemini 3.5 Flash $1.50/$9; Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite $0.30/$2.50; Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite $0.25/$1.50; Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $2/$12 (prompts up to 200K tokens). Accounts opened after 2026-03-02 cannot spend the $300 Google Cloud welcome credit on the Gemini API.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_api. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://ai.google.dev/pricing, where it says: “Our first hybrid reasoning model which supports a 1M token context”. How we use this
AI model API for Command chat models, Embed, Rerank, Transcribe and Parse. Every account starts with a Trial API key: calls made with it are free, limited to 1,000 API calls a month, and may not be used for production or commercial purposes. Trial rate limits: 20 requests a minute per Chat model, 2,000 Embed inputs a minute and 10 Rerank requests a minute. Trial keys can use all of Cohere's models and APIs. Production keys are pay-as-you-go. Prices per 1M tokens: Command R7B $0.0375/$0.15; Command R $0.15/$0.60. The pricing page lists Command A+ (Apache 2.0) at $0 through an API key and as a model download.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_api. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://cohere.com/pricing, where it says: “Command Generative language models”. How we use this
Workers AI runs AI models on Cloudflare's global network. Every account gets 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge, reset daily at 00:00 UTC; on the Workers Free plan, requests beyond that fail until the reset. On the Workers Paid plan (from $5 per month), usage above 10,000 Neurons per day costs $0.011 per 1,000 Neurons. Seven models, including @cf/moonshotai/kimi-k2.6, @cf/zai-org/glm-5.3 and @cf/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-pro-0813, require the Workers Paid plan or prepaid AI Gateway credits. Note — 2026-07-28: On 2026-07-28 Cloudflare took Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code and GLM-5.2 off the Workers Free plan; they now need the Workers Paid plan (or, from 2026-08-07, prepaid AI Gateway credits). Source ↗
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_api. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing/, where it says: “prepaid AI Gateway credits to pay for Workers AI inference”. How we use this
Cloud-hosted Ollama for running open-source LLMs — The Free plan costs $0 and includes starter usage credits. Buying usage credits unlocks all models. It includes 1 concurrent request. Note — discovered 2026-09-22: The free tier now includes usage credits instead of unlimited access to a single model. It also requires purchasing credits to unlock all models. Source ↗
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_api. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://ollama.com, where it says: “Ollama lets you use open models with your coding agents”. How we use this
Pay-as-you-go model inference. siliconflow.cn, run by a Beijing company, lists these models at no charge: the chat models Qwen3-8B, Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (Free), Qwen3.5-4B, GLM-4-9B-0414, GLM-Z1-9B-0414, DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B (Free) and Xing4.0-29B; the translation model Hunyuan-MT-7B; the OCR models PaddleOCR-VL-1.5 and DeepSeek-OCR; the embedding models bge-m3, bge-large-zh-v1.5 and bge-large-en-v1.5; the reranker bge-reranker-v2-m3; Kolors image generation; and six speech recognition models. The Pro versions are paid: Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct (Pro), bge-m3 (Pro) and bge-reranker-v2-m3 (Pro). All other models are paid too, including DeepSeek-V4-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and GLM-5.3. Using all the free models requires real-name verification, and online personal verification accepts only Chinese-issued documents, such as a resident ID card or a Foreign Permanent Resident ID Card. The international site, siliconflow.com, is run by SiliconFlow Labs Pte. Ltd. under Singapore law, is not offered in mainland China, and gives $1 in free credits to start. Its paid rates per million input/output tokens: gpt-oss-120b $0.05/$0.45; DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash $0.15/$0.60. Best for personal projects and open source projects. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-16, we found the page did not mention this offer, which is not evidence it ended, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_api. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://siliconflow.cn, where it says: “硅基流动（SiliconFlow）专注于提供高效能、低成本的多品类 AI 模型服务”. How we use this
Mistral's Free plan includes $10 per month in API credits and lets you test Mistral models in Studio, alongside limited messages, web searches and coding sessions in Vibe. API keys work in Free mode with no credit card, within usage and rate limits. In Free mode, Mistral may use your inputs and outputs to train its models unless you opt out. API prices: Ministral 3 (3B) $0.1/$0.1 (per 1M tokens); Mistral Small 4 $0.15/$0.6 (per 1M tokens); Mistral Large 3 $0.5/$1.5 (per 1M tokens); Mistral Medium 3.5 $1.5/$7.5 (per 1M tokens). Batch processing is half price, and cached input tokens cost up to 90% less. Note — 2026-08-14: Mistral's Free plan now includes $10 a month in API credits for Studio and the API, alongside limited messages, web searches and image generations in Vibe. Source ↗
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_api. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://mistral.ai/pricing, where it says: “Frontier-scale infrastructure for training and inference”. How we use this
China-based GLM model API. The price list marks these models free: GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4-Flash-250414 and GLM-Z1-Flash (text); GLM-4.6V-Flash, GLM-4V-Flash and GLM-4.1V-Thinking-Flash (vision); CogView-3-Flash (image); CogVideoX-Flash (video). API calls are rate limited, with a separate concurrency limit per model. The page we cite for this offer does not name it when we last looked, on 2026-09-16, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_api. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://open.bigmodel.cn, where it says: “研发了多款LLM模型，多模态视觉模型产品”. How we use this
Fast LLM inference on Groq's LPU hardware. Free plan: gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b and Qwen3.8 27B, each at 30 requests a minute, 1,000 requests and 200,000 tokens a day, plus Whisper speech-to-text at 2,000 requests a day. Llama 3.3 70B and Llama 3.1 8B left the free and developer plans on 2026-08-16 and are Enterprise-only. Developer plan prices per 1M tokens: gpt-oss-120b $0.15/$0.60; gpt-oss-20b $0.075/$0.30. Best for open source projects. Note — 2026-08-16: Groq shut down Llama 3.1 8B and Llama 3.3 70B on its free and developer plans. On the free plan Llama 3.1 8B had allowed 14,400 requests and 500,000 tokens a day; the free chat models left (gpt-oss-120b, gpt-oss-20b and a Qwen 27B model) allow 1,000 requests and 200,000 tokens a day each. Source ↗
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_api. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://groq.com/pricing, where it says: “One fully integrated platform for infrastructure, inference, and control”. How we use this
Free inference endpoints on build.nvidia.com: models marked Free Endpoint, including Kimi K3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and NVIDIA Nemotron, can be called at no cost. Up to 40 requests per minute; limits may vary by model, and traffic from other users may cause throttling. NVIDIA's API Trial Terms allow free use for testing and evaluation only, not production. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_api. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://build.nvidia.com, where it says: “Experience the leading models to build enterprise generative AI apps now”. How we use this
ML model deployment platform. New workspaces receive credits for testing and deployment; Baseten does not state the amount. Basic plan: $0 per month, pay as you go. Dedicated deployments bill per minute. Model APIs bill per 1M tokens: GLM-5.3 $1.40/$4.40. GLM-5.3-Flash $0.15/$0.50. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-10, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_api. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.baseten.co/pricing/, where it says: “Model APIs Instant access to pre-optimized models”. How we use this
Ultra-fast LLM inference API — no permanent free tier. New accounts get $5 in free credits after adding a verified payment method, expiring 30 days after they are granted. Free Trial limits on gpt-oss-120b and qwen-3.8-27b: 5 requests/min and 1M tokens/day. Pay as you go after: GPT OSS 120B $0.35/$0.75 per M tokens, Qwen 3.8 27B $0.99/$1.49 per M tokens. Multi-thousand tokens/sec inference speed Best for open source projects. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-17, we could read no amount, tier or rate on the page, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_api. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://cerebras.ai/, where it says: “Cerebras powers the world's fastest AI inference”. How we use this
Inference platform for open models, with serverless per-token pricing and on-demand GPU deployments billed per GPU second. Fireworks offers $1 in free credits to get started. Accounts with no payment method, or with no credits, are limited to 10 requests per minute, and an account without a payment method is suspended when the $1 credit runs out until one is added. Serverless prices: OpenAI GPT OSS 120B $0.15/$0.60 (per 1M tokens); MiniMax M3 $0.30/$1.20 (per 1M tokens); GLM 5.3 $1.40/$4.40 (per 1M tokens); Kimi K3 $3.00/$15.00 (per 1M tokens). Batch inference costs 50% of serverless prices. Image generation and audio inference were deprecated on June 10, 2026. Best for open source projects.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_api. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://fireworks.ai/pricing, where it says: “To view the current pricing for our most popular models across Standard, Priority, and Fast serverless tiers”. How we use this
| Vendor | Free Tier | Key Limits | Durability | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Gemini API | Free (Reduced) | Free tier: Gemini 3.8 Flash, 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.1 Flash-Lite, Gemini 3 Flash Preview, Ge... read found the page different · 2026-09-22 |
watch effective 2026-06-01 |
2026-09-22 / 2026-08-18 |
| Cohere | Free | AI model API for Command chat models, Embed, Rerank, Transcribe and Parse. Every account starts with a Trial API key: ca... read found the page different · 2026-09-18 |
stable | 2026-09-18 / 2026-08-16 |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Free | Workers AI runs AI models on Cloudflare's global network. Every account gets 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge, reset ... read found the page different · 2026-09-13 |
watch effective 2026-07-28 |
2026-09-13 / 2026-08-09 |
| Ollama Cloud | Free | Cloud-hosted Ollama for running open-source LLMs — The Free plan costs $0 and includes starter usage credits. Buying usa... | watch discovered 2026-09-22 · effective date unknown |
2026-09-22 / 2026-08-19 |
| SiliconFlow | Free | Pay-as-you-go model inference. siliconflow.cn, run by a Beijing company, lists these models at no charge: the chat model... | not published change not established · 2026-09-16 |
2026-09-16 / 2026-08-20 |
| Mistral AI | Free | Mistral's Free plan includes $10 per month in API credits and lets you test Mistral models in Studio, alongside limited ... | watch effective 2026-08-14 |
2026-09-21 / 2026-09-05 |
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