GitHub Models pricing details and 25 free alternatives in AI / ML. Not verified — the page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read.

GitHub Models — free tier retired retired

Subtypes in AI / ML: llm_api — 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 read that on 2026-09-10 from https://docs.github.com/en/github-models/about-github-models, where it says: “The playground, model catalog, inference API, and bring your own key (BYOK) are no longer available to any customer.” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 25 alternatives. Catalogue date August 2026. Last updated 2026-09-02.

GitHub Models's offer is recorded as Retired. GitHub retired GitHub Models on 2026-07-30, so there is no free tier… This offer has ended — we keep the page for the record and no longer rate it.

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Tier
Retired
Category
Catalogue date
2026-08-20
Last read
2026-09-02
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Free Tier Details

GitHub retired GitHub Models on 2026-07-30, so there is no free tier. GitHub's own documentation states "GitHub Models has been retired." The former offer was free access to 100+ models via GitHub Marketplace at 10-15 RPM and 50-150 requests/day.

Pricing Change History (0 recorded)

No recorded pricing changes for GitHub Models — but the offer has ended, so this history describes a tier that is no longer available. An empty history is not evidence of stability here.

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Alternatives in AI / ML

How GitHub Models compares against every one of the 25 we list, not against a selection of them. A surface with room for every member of a tied set may rotate their order. A surface with room for only some of them names none of them, because which ones it named would be the claim, and a claim seeded on the date is not the one we serve tomorrow. How we decide this.

Service Free Tier Stability
GitHub Models Retired offer_retired
Hugging Face Free unrated
Keywords AI Free stable
Google Gemini API Free (Reduced) stable
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OpenRouter Free stable
Lumenfall.ai Free stable
Mistral AI Free caution
Cloudflare Workers AI Free caution
Cohere Free stable
Portkey Free unrated
Ollama Cloud Free caution
Maxim AI Free stable
Zhipu AI Free source unconfirmed
LLM7.io Free source unconfirmed
Groq Free caution
NVIDIA NIM Free source unconfirmed
Fireworks AI Free Credits stable
Baseten Basic (Free Credits) unrated
Cerebras Trial unrated
OpenAI Pay-as-you-go unrated
xAI Pay-as-you-go source unconfirmed
Together AI Pay-as-you-go unrated
Anthropic API Pay-as-you-go unrated
MiniMax Pay-as-you-go unrated
DeepSeek API Pay-as-you-go unrated

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Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The list above is every one of the 25 entries in that order, not a prefix of it. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is GitHub Models free?
GitHub Models's offer is recorded as Retired. GitHub retired GitHub Models on 2026-07-30, so there is no free tier. GitHub's own documentation states "GitHub Models has been retired." The former offer was free access to 100+ models via GitHub Mar...
What is GitHub Models's free tier?
GitHub Models's offer is recorded as Retired. GitHub retired GitHub Models on 2026-07-30, so there is no free tier. GitHub's own documentation states "GitHub Models has been retired." The former offer was free access to 100+ models via GitHub Marketplace at 10-15 RPM and 50-150 requests/day.
Is GitHub Models's free tier reliable?
GitHub Models has ended this offer, so there is nothing to rate. We keep the page so the question has an answer, but a stability judgement only applies to an offer you can still get.
Is GitHub Models's free tier good for production?
GitHub Models's offer is recorded as Retired. There is no free tier here to run in production.
What changed in GitHub Models's pricing?
GitHub Models has no recorded pricing changes, but the offer has ended — so the empty history describes a tier that is no longer available, not a stable one.
What are the best free alternatives to GitHub Models?
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 25 free alternatives to GitHub Models in AI / ML, each listed above with its tier. Of those, 12 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 7 are demoted with the reason named, 6 are listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
What category is GitHub Models in?
GitHub Models is categorized under AI / ML on AgentDeals. We list 25 other AI / ML services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.

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