Lumenfall.ai free tier includes AI media gateway: one OpenAI-compatible API to image and video generation models from several… Verified October 2026. Compare with 27 alternatives in AI / ML.

Lumenfall.ai Free Tier 2026

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Subtypes in AI / ML: model_gateway — one endpoint that reaches models run by several independent providers; what is sold is the routing, key management and fallback, not the weights; image_video_generation — produces images or video from a prompt or a source image. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://lumenfall.ai/, where it says: “The Unified API for AI Image and Video Generation” How we use this.

Limits, pricing history, and 27 alternatives. Verified October 2026. Last updated 2026-11-12.

Lumenfall.ai's free tier offers AI media gateway: one OpenAI-compatible API to image and video generation models from several providers, billed at each… We rate it stable. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. Best for ai / ml workloads — 27 alternatives available.

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Tier
Free
Category
Verified
2026-10-21
Last read
2026-11-12
The day we last read the vendor's page. The terms we publish were last confirmed on 2026-10-21.

Free Tier Details

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.

We read that on 2026-11-12 from https://lumenfall.ai/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Lumenfall.ai as "lumenfall" and states "$1".

From lumenfall.ai/pricing, read 2026-11-12:
Start Free with $1 Credit No credit card No commitment Provider charges $0.04 = You pay $0.04 Zero markup. Zero fees. Zero catch.

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Pricing Change History (1 recorded)

Retracted — this record was our error (2026-09-27). Retracted 2026-09-27: nothing changed on 2026-09-13. The Internet Archive's captures of lumenfall.ai/pricing on 2026-03-11, 2026-06-09 and 2026-08-28 carry the same terms this record reports, "Start Free with $1 Credit" with zero markup, and none mentions FLUX.1 [schnell]. The free-forever FLUX.1 [schnell] FP8 line was in our listing text, and Lumenfall's model catalogue still lists that model as free on 2026-09-27. The record compared the pricing page with our own listing text. Source ↗

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Keywords AI Free
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source unconfirmed
Pollinations.AI Free
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caution
Maxim AI Free
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.
stable
Cohere Free
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stable
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 tokens per 24 hours, counting input and output tokens; LLM7 says free quotas may be reduced without notice.
caution
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 daily at 00:00 UTC; on the Workers Free plan, requests beyond that fail until the reset.
caution
OpenRouter Free
AI model router. Free plan: 50 requests a day, no BYOK.
stable
Hetzner Inference API Free
Hetzner's experimental Inference API: an OpenAI-compatible API for open-weight models, free while it stays experimental. Base URL: https://inference.hetzner.com/api/v1.
stable
Hugging Face Free
ML model hub. Since 2026-10-07, free accounts get no included Inference Providers credits: free users buy credits or upgrade to PRO to call Inference Providers, which serves 200+ models.
caution
NVIDIA NIM Free
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stable
Groq Free
Fast LLM inference on Groq's LPU hardware. Free plan: gpt-oss-20b, gpt-oss-120b 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.
caution
Google Gemini API Free (Reduced)
Free tier: Gemini 4 Hydrogen, Gemini 3.8 Flash, 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.1 Flash-Lite, Gemini 3 Flash Preview, Gemini Embedding 2 and Gemma 4 are free of charge. Also free of charge are Gemini 3.8 Live (real-time voice), Gemini 3.5 Live Translate (translation), Gemini 3.5 Transcribe…
stable
Portkey Free
Control panel for Gen AI apps featuring an observability suite & an AI gateway. Send & log up to 10,000 requests for free every month.
unrated
SiliconFlow Free
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unrated
Zhipu AI Free
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source unconfirmed
Fireworks AI Free Credits
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unrated
Baseten Basic (Free Credits)
ML model deployment platform. New workspaces receive credits for testing and deployment; Baseten does not state the amount.
unrated
Cerebras Trial
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.
risky
DeepSeek API Pay-as-you-go
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unrated
GitHub Models 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."
source unconfirmed
OpenAI Pay-as-you-go
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unrated
xAI Pay-as-you-go
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unrated
Ollama Cloud Pay-as-you-go
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Together AI Pay-as-you-go
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Mistral AI Pay-as-you-go
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unrated
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unrated
MiniMax Pay-as-you-go
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Lumenfall.ai free?
Yes, Lumenfall.ai offers a free tier: Free. 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...
What is Lumenfall.ai's free tier?
Lumenfall.ai's free tier is called "Free". 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.
Is Lumenfall.ai's free tier reliable?
Lumenfall.ai's free tier is considered stable. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. See the pricing history below.
Is Lumenfall.ai's free tier good for production?
Lumenfall.ai's free tier can be suitable for small production workloads and side projects. We rate it stable and it offers AI media gateway: one OpenAI-compatible API to image and video generation models from several providers, billed at each…, so it's a reasonable starting point. The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn. Monitor your usage against the limits and have an upgrade plan ready.
What changed in Lumenfall.ai's pricing?
The one record we hold was our own error and has been withdrawn.
What are the best free alternatives to Lumenfall.ai?
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 27 free alternatives to Lumenfall.ai 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, 6 are demoted with the reason named, 9 are listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
When will I outgrow Lumenfall.ai's free tier?
When your usage exceeds the free tier limits, you'll need to upgrade. When you outgrow the free tier, evaluate paid plans against alternatives — sometimes a competitor's free tier covers what you need.
What category is Lumenfall.ai in?
Lumenfall.ai is categorized under AI / ML on AgentDeals. We list 27 other AI / ML services alongside it, every one of them on this page with its free tier and the stability we publish for it.