Every free model gateway tier that clears our bar in 2026: 7 offers meet the criteria and 0 offers are demoted with a named reason. Our membership test: one endpoint that reaches models run by several independent providers; what is sold is the routing, key management and fallback, not the weights. We could not confirm today's terms for 3 of them, and on all 3 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.
Control panel for Gen AI apps featuring an observability suite & an AI gateway. Send & log up to 10,000 requests for free every month. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-10-01, we reached a domain root that states nothing about the terms we hold, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it model_gateway. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://portkey.ai/, where it says: “Portkey is now PRISMA AIRS AI Gateway”. How we use this
Simulate, evaluate, and observe your AI agents — The 'OSS' tier is free forever for developers, small teams, and self-managed deployments. It includes features like a drop-in replacement, OTel compatibility, metrics & traces, built-in observability, budget management, and more. A 14-day free trial of 'Bifrost Enterprise' is available. Best for startups and open source projects.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it model_gateway. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://getmaxim.ai/, where it says: “The fastest, most resilient, enterprise-grade LLM, MCP, and agent gateway”. How we use this
AI model router. Free plan: 25+ free models, 4 free providers, 50 requests a day, no BYOK. Free models are capped at 20 requests a minute; accounts that have bought at least $10 of credits get 1,000 free-model requests a day. The Standard plan (pay-as-you-go) charges a 5.5% fee on credit purchases and includes BYOK up to $25,000 of list-price inference a month with no fees, 5% after.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it model_gateway. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://openrouter.ai/pricing, where it says: “Pay only for what you use with access to 500+ AI models”. How we use this
ML model hub. Free users get $0.10 a month of Inference Providers credits (subject to change); Inference Providers serves 200+ models, and extra usage requires a credits purchase. PRO ($9/month) gets $2.00 a month. Free accounts get 100GB of private storage and best-effort public storage; substantial storage needs PRO, Team or Enterprise.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it model_gateway. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing, where it says: “route requests through Hugging Face”. How we use this
Rebranded to Respan; keywordsai.co redirects to respan.ai. Free plan: full platform, 100k logs, 1k scores, 5 datasets, 2 evaluators, 5 prompts. No credit card required.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it model_gateway. We read that on 2026-09-02 from https://www.respan.ai, where it says: “Point the SDK you already use at one endpoint to reach 1,000+ models”. How we use this
AI media gateway: one OpenAI-compatible API to image and video generation models from several providers, billed at each provider's price with no markup, platform fee or subscription. One model, FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8, is listed free per image ("Free to try", served through Fireworks AI). New accounts also get a $1 credit with no card required; Lumenfall's terms say promotional credits typically expire after 90 days. After that you top up prepaid credits. Under Lumenfall's terms (2026-03-05), content sent through free features, including free API usage, may be used to train AI models.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it model_gateway. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://lumenfall.ai/, where it says: “unified access to the top image and video models across leading providers”. How we use this
LLM inference gateway. With a free token from dash.llm7.io: 1 request a second, 60 a minute, 250 an hour and 100,000 tokens per 24 hours, counting input and output tokens; LLM7 says free quotas may be reduced without notice. Free access covers turbo-tier models not marked usage-only, such as GLM-5.3-Flash and codestral-latest. Other models, including all image and speech-to-text models, need Pro ($12/mo) or a paid balance. Note — discovered 2026-10-07: The free tier limits have been significantly reduced. The free tier now allows 60 requests per minute and 100,000 tokens per 24 hours, whereas previously it allowed 10 requests per minute and 500,000 tokens per 24 hours without a token. The free tier with a token now allows 60 requests per minute and 100,000 tokens per 24 hours, whereas previously it allowed 40 requests per minute and 1,000,000 tokens per 24 hours. Source ↗
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it model_gateway. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://llm7.io, where it says: “Connect to leading AI models with one endpoint”. How we use this
Nothing on this page is demoted today — we hold no disqualifying record against any of these offers.
| Vendor | Free Tier | Key Limits | Durability | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portkey | Free | Control panel for Gen AI apps featuring an observability suite & an AI gateway. Send & log up to 10,000 requests for fre... | not published change not established · 2026-10-01 |
2026-10-01 / 2026-08-12 |
| Maxim AI | Free | Simulate, evaluate, and observe your AI agents — The 'OSS' tier is free forever for developers, small teams, and self-ma... | stable | 2026-10-04 / 2026-07-30 |
| OpenRouter | Free | AI model router. Free plan: 25+ free models, 4 free providers, 50 requests a day, no BYOK. Free models are capped at 20 ... | stable | 2026-09-22 |
| Hugging Face | Free | ML model hub. Free users get $0.10 a month of Inference Providers credits (subject to change); Inference Providers serve... | stable | 2026-10-05 |
| Keywords AI | Free | Rebranded to Respan; keywordsai.co redirects to respan.ai. Free plan: full platform, 100k logs, 1k scores, 5 datasets, 2... | stable | 2026-10-06 |
| Lumenfall.ai | Free | AI media gateway: one OpenAI-compatible API to image and video generation models from several providers, billed at each ... read found the page different · 2026-09-13 |
stable | 2026-09-13 |
| LLM7.io | Free | LLM inference gateway. With a free token from dash.llm7.io: 1 request a second, 60 a minute, 250 an hour and 100,000 tok... read found the page different · 2026-10-07 |
watch discovered 2026-10-07 · effective date unknown |
2026-10-07 / 2026-08-17 |
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 7 free model gateway offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
7 offers meet our criteria on this page. Of those, 5 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, and we publish no durability signal for 1. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, where the listing is gated, or where a narrowing in our records cites no source or no archived copy of the vendor's page has confirmed it. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.
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