Every free model hosting tier that clears our bar in 2026: 3 offers meet the criteria and 3 offers are demoted with a named reason. Our membership test: you supply or select a model and the platform serves it behind an endpoint on hardware you choose. 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.
ML platform (Gradient Notebooks, Workflows and Deployments) from Paperspace, now part of DigitalOcean. The Free plan is $0 with public projects, 5 GB of storage and free machines for Notebooks in your private workspace (Free CPU C4 and Free GPU M4000; free machines shut down after at most 6 hours). Other machines are billed per hour. Pro is $8/month for individuals and $12/month for teams; Growth is $39/month. DigitalOcean says new customers can still sign up but recommends its own GPU products instead.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it model_hosting. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.paperspace.com/pricing, where it says: “Deployments (inference) - Model Repository”. 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. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-13, we refused the change we considered recording because it named no figure that had moved, and refusing a change is not a confirmation of the terms above, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it model_hosting. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://huggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricing, where it says: “Inference Endpoints (dedicated)”. How we use this
Computer vision platform for labeling, training and deploying models. On September 18, 2026 Roboflow announced a free tier for its Core plan: 10 credits that refresh every month, private projects and models, and model weight download. More credits can be bought. Credits pay for storage, labeling, training and cloud deployment; running models on your own hardware with Roboflow Inference uses none. Core's data licensing and model training setting is on by default, including for private projects; a workspace can turn it off. Public plan workspaces are moving to the Core free tier. Note — 2026-07-30: Roboflow's free Public plan went from "$60/mo free credits" to "15 credits / month" between the Internet Archive's 2026-06-23 and 2026-07-30 captures of its pricing page. Roboflow states no dollar value for a credit; its Core plan sells 50 credits for $99 a month. Source ↗
Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it model_hosting. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://roboflow.com/pricing, where it says: “Data labeling suite w/ AI features Model training Workflow builder Cloud hosted deployment”. 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 model_hosting. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://fireworks.ai/pricing, where it says: “priced per GPU hour (billed per second), at the same price as Fireworks on-demand deployments”. How we use this
ML model hosting and inference. A new account can run the models in Replicate's Try for Free collection without buying credit, for a limited number of runs that Replicate does not state; after that you add billing and buy credit. Replicate says these models are not free forever. Most models bill by the second for the hardware they run on, such as $0.000025/sec on CPU Small and $0.001525/sec on one H100. Official models bill per output instead, such as FLUX 1.1 Pro at $0.04 per image; per million input/output tokens: DeepSeek-R1 $3.75/$10. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-17, 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 model_hosting. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://replicate.com/pricing, where it says: “Thousands of open-source machine learning models have been contributed”. 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 model_hosting. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.baseten.co/pricing/, where it says: “You can deploy open source and custom models on Baseten”. How we use this
| Vendor | Free Tier | Key Limits | Durability | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| paperspace | Free | ML platform (Gradient Notebooks, Workflows and Deployments) from Paperspace, now part of DigitalOcean. The Free plan is ... | stable | 2026-08-22 |
| Hugging Face | Free | ML model hub. Free users get $0.10 a month of Inference Providers credits (subject to change); Inference Providers serve... | not published no difference measured · 2026-09-13 |
2026-09-13 / 2026-08-09 |
| Roboflow | Free | Computer vision platform for labeling, training and deploying models. On September 18, 2026 Roboflow announced a free ti... | watch effective 2026-07-30 |
2026-09-26 |
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3 offers meet our criteria on this page. Of those, 1 carries 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, or where the listing is gated. 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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