Maxim AI free tier includes Simulate, evaluate, and observe your AI agents — The 'OSS' tier is free forever for developers… Catalogue date July 2026. Compare with 26 alternatives in AI / ML.
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. 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.
Maxim AI's free tier offers Simulate, evaluate, and observe your AI agents — The 'OSS' tier is free forever for developers, small teams, and… We rate it stable. The one change we have recorded did not narrow the terms. Best for ai / ml workloads — 26 alternatives available.
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.
We read that on 2026-10-04 from https://getmaxim.ai/pricing, and our check recorded: the page names Maxim AI, renders "Free Forever" and no amount, and its markup states 1 typed price (Bifrost OSS USD 0).
How Maxim AI compares against every one of the 26 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Maxim AI | Free | stable |
| Ollama Cloud | Free | caution |
| Portkey | Free | unrated |
| Cohere | Free | stable |
| Lumenfall.ai | Free | stable |
| Keywords AI | Free | stable |
| OpenRouter | Free | stable |
| Groq | Free | caution |
| NVIDIA NIM | Free | stable |
| LLM7.io | Free | caution |
| Mistral AI | Free | caution |
| SiliconFlow | Free | unrated |
| Hugging Face | Free | caution |
| Google Gemini API | Free (Reduced) | stable |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Free | caution |
| Zhipu AI | Free | source unconfirmed |
| Hetzner Inference API | Free | stable |
| Baseten | Basic (Free Credits) | unrated |
| Fireworks AI | Free Credits | unrated |
| Cerebras | Trial | risky |
| DeepSeek API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| xAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| Anthropic API | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| Together AI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| OpenAI | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| MiniMax | Pay-as-you-go | unrated |
| GitHub Models | Retired | source unconfirmed |
Left out of this list: Pinecone (shares no subtype with this product), Qdrant (shares no subtype with this product), Deepgram (shares no subtype with this product), Kaggle (shares no subtype with this product), Roboflow (shares no subtype with this product), Scale AI (shares no subtype with this product), AssemblyAI (shares no subtype with this product), Replicate (shares no subtype with this product), Weights & Biases (shares no subtype with this product), Comet ML (shares no subtype with this product), Clarifai (we have not classified this record), Neptune.ai (we have not classified this record), Labelbox (shares no subtype with this product), Google Colab (shares no subtype with this product), Composio (shares no subtype with this product), DeepAR (none of this category's subtypes apply), OCR.Space (shares no subtype with this product), Parseur (shares no subtype with this product), Reducto (shares no subtype with this product), Tavily AI (shares no subtype with this product), paperspace (shares no subtype with this product), Arize AX (shares no subtype with this product), Audio Enhancer (none of this category's subtypes apply), Braintrust (shares no subtype with this product), Clair (none of this category's subtypes apply), Langfuse (shares no subtype with this product), LangSmith (shares no subtype with this product), Langtrace (we have not classified this record), LangWatch (shares no subtype with this product), Mediaworkbench.ai (none of this category's subtypes apply), Othor AI (none of this category's subtypes apply), Pollinations.AI (shares no subtype with this product), ReportGPT (none of this category's subtypes apply), Zenable (none of this category's subtypes apply), Exa (shares no subtype with this product), GPU-Bridge (we have not classified this record), Google Vertex AI Agent Engine (we have not classified this record), Google Vector Search 2.0 (shares no subtype with this product), Google Gemini Embedding 2 (shares no subtype with this product), Alibaba Cloud Qwen Code (none of this category's subtypes apply), E2B (shares no subtype with this product), Modal (shares no subtype with this product), ElevenLabs (we have not classified this record), Stability AI (we have not classified this record), Daytona (shares no subtype with this product), Blaxel (shares no subtype with this product), Novita Sandbox (shares no subtype with this product), Runloop (shares no subtype with this product), Mem0 (shares no subtype with this product), Zep (shares no subtype with this product), Letta (we have not classified this record), Supermemory (shares no subtype with this product), Cognee (shares no subtype with this product), Serper (shares no subtype with this product), Linkup (shares no subtype with this product), Parallel (shares no subtype with this product), Jina AI (shares no subtype with this product), You.com (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in AI / ML, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.
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