As of 2026-10-09, 3 of the 85 free AI API offers we track can be obtained by an agent with no human step, by their recorded signup method; the rest need a person once.
Self-serve signup, or OAuth. OAuth needs an account that already exists, so those rows say whose.
| Offer | Provider | Human step | What it offers | Expiry | Verified | Source | Caveats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BazaarLink free gateway tier | BazaarLink | none: the agent signs up itself | Free tier on an OpenAI-compatible gateway: 10 requests/minute and 60 weighted units/day per account (longer inputs use more units), shared across the free models, no credit card and no waitlist (“Sig… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | SMALL, AND SMALLER THAN AGGREGATORS CLAIM — third-party listings report 130 req/day and imply the whole catalog is free; the provider's own page (read 2026-10-06) lists exactly TWO models with a free allowance (Qwen3.7… |
| GitHub Codespaces included hours | GitHub | sign in with an existing GitHub account (OAuth) | 120 units of Codespaces compute time and 15 GB-month storage per month on GitHub Free personal accounts (180 units / 20 GB-month on Pro), resetting each billing cycle | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | core-hours: a 2-core machine burns 2/hour, so 120 core-hours = 60 real hours on the smallest machine. IMPORTANT UNIT CLARIFICATION 2026-09-16 — THE HOURS ARE NOT WALL-CLOCK HOURS. The docs table reads "120 hrs", but a s… |
| Modal Starter plan | Modal | sign in with an existing Modal account (OAuth) | $30/month free compute credits (recurring), 3 workspace seats included, 100 containers and 10 GPU concurrency | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | academic program up to $10K credits by application. Re-read first-party 2026-09-16 and holds, including the recurring monthly framing: "Get started with $30 / month free compute" on the Starter plan. |
Each row names the step a person has to take.
| Offer | Provider | Human step | What it offers | Expiry | Verified | Source | Caveats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Gateway free tier | Vercel | a person completes a signup form | A standing monthly free credit on AI Gateway for every Vercel team account, giving access to a subset of the model catalog (browsable at vercel.com/ai-gateway/models?freeTier=true) through one OpenAI… | no stated expiry | 2026-09-08 | source | AMOUNT NOW PUBLISHED FIRST-PARTY: Vercel's pricing page states "Monthly credit $5 /month included" in its free-tier column (checked 2026-10-08); when this row was last verified (2026-09-08) the page stated no figure. On… |
| AI21 Jamba free trial | AI21 | a person completes a signup form | $10 in credits for 7 days on the foundation-model API, covering Jamba Mini and Jamba Large. No credit card required to start. | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | A 7-DAY TRIAL, NOT A STANDING FREE TIER — the clock starts at signup and the credits expire with it, so this is unsuitable for anything durable. Verbatim from the pricing page: "Free Trial — $10 credits for 7 days. No c… |
| Aion Labs free tier | Aion Labs | a person completes a signup form | Free tier at $0 with a daily credit allowance covering the API. "No card required." The free tier ("Default on signup") allows 15 requests per minute, 20,000 tokens per minute and a 20,000 daily toke… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | The dollar size of the daily credit allowance is not stated publicly. Which models the free tier may call is not stated publicly. The site header shows "Request Access" next to "Sign In", and whether sign-up is open or… |
| Apodex 1.1 Mini (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on apodex/apodex-1.1-mini:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 262,144 tokens; input: text. | no stated expiry | 2026-10-05 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. End rule: when OpenRouter stops listing this slug at $0, the row is retired to a dat… |
| AssemblyAI signup credits | AssemblyAI | a person completes a signup form | A free tier with no credit card: up to 185 hours of pre-recorded transcription and up to 333 hours of streaming transcription, then pay-as-you-go | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | free tier streaming capped at 5 new streams/min. CORRECTION 2026-09-16 — THE OFFER IS NO LONGER DENOMINATED IN DOLLARS. This row said "$50 in free speech-to-text credits on signup". The pricing page states the free tier… |
| Baseten new-account credits | Baseten | a person completes a signup form | "new Baseten accounts come with credits so you can get to know the UI and experiment with deployments for free." The amount is not stated publicly. | no stated expiry | 2026-10-08 | source | The credit amount is not stated on the pricing page. |
| Braintrust Starter plan | Braintrust | a person completes a signup form | $10 model credits/month, 1 GB processed data/month, 10K scores/month, 14-day data retention, unlimited users, projects, datasets, playgrounds and experiments; no credit card | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | 14-day retention. Re-read first-party 2026-09-16 and holds. ADDED: the Starter plan carries 14-day data retention, which this row did not state — an evaluation history older than a fortnight is gone, which matters m… |
| Brave Search API monthly credit | Brave | a person adds a payment card | $5 in free credits every month, auto-applied (~1,000 queries on the base Search plan), 50 QPS capacity. The same $5/month credit also applies to the newer Answers plan ($4 per 1,000 requests + $5 per… | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | card required for anti-fraud identity check (not charged on free usage). Re-read first-party 2026-09-16 and holds. Note the Answers plan's capacity is 2 QPS against Search's 50 — the credit is the same size but buys far… |
| Cerebras Inference free tier | Cerebras | a person adds a payment card | Free Trial: $5 in credits granted to new accounts once a verified payment method is added, expiring 30 days later; while credits last, 5 req/min, 30K uncached tokens/min (90K total incl. cached), 1M… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | NOT a renewing free tier — Cerebras' docs state it “doesn’t currently offer a no-cost tier that renews automatically” and require you to “add a verified payment method” to use the trial; credits expire 30 days after the… |
| Complimentary daily tokens (data-sharing) | OpenAI | a person adds a payment card | Up to 1M tokens/day shared across the large-model group (gpt-5.6-sol, gpt-5.5, gpt-5.4, gpt-5.2, gpt-5.1, gpt-5.1-codex, gpt-5-codex, gpt-5, gpt-5-chat-latest, gpt-4.1, gpt-4o, o3, o1, o1-preview; 25… | no stated expiry | 2026-09-05 | source | NOT READABLE FROM OUR CLIENT SINCE 2026-10-08: the first-party help article returns 403 to our own client, and the 2026-09-05 read behind every figure here went through a third-party text-extraction route that is now re… |
| Deepgram signup credit | Deepgram | a person completes a signup form | $200 credit on signup (speech-to-text + TTS, pay-as-you-go plan), no card | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | expiry not stated on pricing page |
| Dots3-Note Preview (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on dots-studio/dots-3-note-preview:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 512,000 tokens; input: te… | expires 2026-12-31 | 2026-10-05 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. OpenRouter's model list gives an expiration_date of 2026-12-31; the row is retired t… |
| E2B Hobby tier | E2B | a person completes a signup form | One-time $100 usage credits, up to 20 concurrent agent code sandboxes, 1-hour max session, no card | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | credits are one-time, not monthly |
| ElevenLabs free plan | ElevenLabs | a person completes a signup form | 10,000 credits/month for TTS/STT/sound effects/voice design | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | NO commercial license on the free tier; credits don't roll over |
| Exa free tier | Exa | a person completes a signup form | New accounts get a $10 onboarding bonus, and the free Starter tier adds $10 in credits every month, with no payment method required | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | CORRECTED 2026-09-08 — THIS ROW WAS WRONG. It previously said the $0 tier covers “up to 20,000 requests/month”. Exa's pricing page is now credit-denominated, not request-capped. On 2026-09-08 it read “New accounts get $… |
| Firecrawl free plan | Firecrawl | a person completes a signup form | 1,000 credits/month, which the pricing page now quantifies as "500 searches or 1,000 pages scraped"; 2 concurrent requests; "No cost, no card, no hassle" | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | credits don't roll over; concurrency of 2 limits parallel agents. Re-read first-party 2026-09-16 and holds. CORRECTION 2026-09-16: this row read "~1,000 pages scraped" as the whole of the tier; the page states the credi… |
| Fireworks $1 starter credit | Fireworks AI | a person completes a signup form | A one-time $1 credit (Fireworks' billing FAQ: “What happens when I finish my $1 credit?”), usable on serverless models while it lasts. The pages read do not state when it is granted. | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | Account is suspended once the credit is spent unless a payment method is added — that much is first-party. UNSOURCED FIGURE REMOVED 2026-09-08: this row previously stated “600 req/min” at confidence “verified”. That num… |
| Gemini API free tier (AI Studio) | a person completes a signup form | Ongoing free tier (not a trial). Free of charge on Gemini 3.8 / 3.7 / 3.6 / 3.5 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, 3.1 Flash-Lite, 3 Flash Preview, 3.1 Flash TTS Preview, the 3.5 audio models (Transcribe, Transc… | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | free-tier prompts/outputs ARE used to train Google products; Pro models paid-only since Apr 2026; some region restrictions. CORRECTION 2026-09-16, WRONG IN BOTH DIRECTIONS. (1) This row listed Gemini 2.0 Flash as fr… | |
| Gemma 4 26B A4B (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 262,144 tokens; input: image, t… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-05 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. End rule: when OpenRouter stops listing this slug at $0, the row is retired to a dat… |
| Gemma 4 31B (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on google/gemma-4-31b-it:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 262,144 tokens; input: image, text… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-05 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. End rule: when OpenRouter stops listing this slug at $0, the row is retired to a dat… |
| GLM Flash models ($0) | Z.ai (Zhipu) | a person completes a signup form | GLM-4.7-Flash and GLM-4.5-Flash (text) and GLM-4.6V-Flash (vision) priced $0 for input, cached input, and output — ongoing, OpenAI-compatible endpoint | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | PRC-based provider — assume training use / PRC data rules for sensitive data; ~1 concurrent request reported |
| Google Cloud $300 trial (Vertex AI) | Google Cloud | a person adds a payment card | $300 in free credit for new Google Cloud customers, usable across Google Cloud including Vertex AI; you are not charged until you activate a full paid account | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | requires billing account with card (not charged until upgrade); credit does NOT apply to Gemini API / AI Studio. PROVENANCE CORRECTION 2026-09-16: this row asserted the credit is "valid 90 days" at confidence verified… |
| GroqCloud Free Plan | Groq | a person completes a signup form | Persistent free tier, no card. The rate-limits page embeds its figures as two tier-labelled arrays (freeRows / devRows); these are the freeRows values, read 2026-09-27. Free-plan models: openai/gpt-o… | no stated expiry | 2026-09-27 | source | THREE MODELS LEFT THE FREE TIER between 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-27: qwen/qwen3.6-27b (30 RPM / 1K req-day) and groq/compound and compound-mini (30 RPM / 250 req-day / 70K TPM) are absent from freeRows on 2026-09-27; the… |
| Hugging Face Spaces ZeroGPU | Hugging Face | a person completes a signup form | Free dynamically-allocated GPU on Spaces, backed by NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell (48GB for the default large size, 96GB for xlarge). Daily quota by tier: unauthenticated 2 minutes, free account… | no stated expiry | 2026-08-24 | source | 5 minutes of GPU per day on a free account is enough for demos and single inferences, not for training or a sustained agent loop — size the expectation accordingly, and note xlarge burns quota at 2x. Gradio SDK only… |
| Inference Providers monthly credits | Hugging Face | a person completes a signup form | $0.10/month included credits on free accounts, $2.00/month on PRO, and $2.00 per seat for Team or Enterprise organizations (pooled across members), usable across 200+ models on eligible integrated pr… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | $0.10/month is tiny (~1-2M tokens of cheap models); only applies to HF-routed requests — bringing your own provider key means the credits do not apply and the provider bills you directly. PRO/Team/Enterprise credits are… |
| Inference.net Pay as you go plan | Inference.net | a person completes a signup form | Pay as you go plan at "$0+ usage", including "1M included Gateway requests" and "1M / mo Tracing spans", 14-day data retention, 1 seat, 30 req/min. | no stated expiry | 2026-10-08 | source | The allowance is for the gateway and tracing: the page states usage is billed ("$0+ usage") and does not say model inference itself is free. The Growth plan adds a "$50 one-time opening credit" at $250 per month. |
| Inkling (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on thinkingmachines/inkling:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 1,048,576 tokens; input: text, i… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-05 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. End rule: when OpenRouter stops listing this slug at $0, the row is retired to a dat… |
| Inkling Small (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on thinkingmachines/inkling-small:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 1,048,576 tokens; input: t… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-05 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. End rule: when OpenRouter stops listing this slug at $0, the row is retired to a dat… |
| Jina Reader/Search free tokens | Jina AI | a person completes a signup form | Every new API key includes 10,000,000 free tokens across all Jina products; keyless Reader (r.jina.ai) works at 20 req/min, free key raises Reader to 500 req/min and unlocks Search at 100 req/min | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | free tokens are one-time per key, not monthly; keyless Reader is slow (~8s) |
| La Plateforme Free mode | Mistral | a person completes a signup form | Free mode is the default state for new accounts. Mistral's pricing page lists the Free plan with “$10 /mo in API credits”, and its docs say Free mode “lets you create API keys and use included monthl… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | PROVENANCE CORRECTION 2026-09-08: this row carried access: "phone-verification" at confidence: verified, and its own source_url does not support it. A full read of that page today returns ZERO occurrences of “phone”; al… |
| Laguna S 2.1 (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on poolside/laguna-s-2.1:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 262,144 tokens; input: text. | expires 2026-10-31 | 2026-10-05 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. OpenRouter's model list gives an expiration_date of 2026-10-31; the row is retired t… |
| Laguna XS 2.1 (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on poolside/laguna-xs-2.1:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 262,144 tokens; input: text. | expires 2026-10-31 | 2026-10-05 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. OpenRouter's model list gives an expiration_date of 2026-10-31; the row is retired t… |
| Langfuse Cloud Hobby plan | Langfuse | a person completes a signup form | 50,000 units/month, 30-day data access, 2 users, all platform features with limits | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | OSS self-host is unlimited and free as an alternative |
| LangSmith Developer plan | LangChain | a person completes a signup form | 5,000 base traces/month (14-day retention), 1 seat, core tracing + evals | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | single seat; pay-as-you-go beyond 5K traces |
| LFM2.5-2.6B (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on liquid/lfm-2.5-2.6b:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 65,536 tokens; input: text. | no stated expiry | 2026-10-05 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. End rule: when OpenRouter stops listing this slug at $0, the row is retired to a dat… |
| Lightning AI free tier — registration credits (no card) | Lightning AI | a person verifies a phone number | 5 of the 30 free credits, granted at registration with no payment method — the genuinely card-free portion of Lightning's free tier. Credits are spent against a published per-GPU rate, so what 5 buys… | no stated expiry | 2026-09-08 | source | NO GPU-HOUR FIGURE IS STATED FOR 5 CREDITS and this row deliberately does not compute one. The advertised “up to 80 free GPU hours” is the T4-weighted best case for all 30 credits; dividing it by six would invent a numb… |
| Ling 3.0 Flash Sante (free) on Novita | inclusionAI (via Novita AI) | a person completes a signup form | Ling 3.0 Flash Sante (health) priced $0 for input and output on Novita: its pricing page lists it at "Free" / "Free", 256K context (read 2026-10-06). | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | A domain-specialised (health) model, not general-purpose chat. The same model is also $0 on OpenRouter as inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-sante:free (afr-0073; still listed at prompt 0 and completion 0 on 2026-10-06). Its… |
| Ling 3.0 Flash Sante (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on inclusionai/ling-3.0-flash-sante:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 262,144 tokens; input: t… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-05 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. End rule: when OpenRouter stops listing this slug at $0, the row is retired to a dat… |
| Ling 3.1 Flash on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on inclusionai/ling-3.1-flash, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 262,144 tokens; input: text. | no stated expiry | 2026-10-08 | source | Not a :free variant: OpenRouter's model page says "The pricing shown on this page for Ling 3.1 Flash is zero, so you are not charged for prompt or completion tokens." No end date is stated for the $0 price. End rule: wh… |
| LLM7.io free API token | LLM7.io | a person completes a signup form | A free API token: "Free token: 100,000 tokens per 24 hours", with rate limits per free token of 1 / 60 / 250 requests per second / minute / hour. "turbo models are fast models available with free A… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | A token is required: "The OpenAI SDK requires an API token from dash.llm7.io", and issuing a token stores an email address, so this is NOT a no-signup API. Whether a card is needed for the free token is not stated publi… |
| Mixedbread Starter credits | Mixedbread | a person completes a signup form | $5 one-time credits, no card required; 3 workspace users, 10 stores (100M chunks per store), 100 req/min ingestion and 100 req/min query | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | one-time, not monthly. Re-read first-party 2026-09-16 and unchanged in substance since 2026-07-13; the rate limit is stated per operation (ingestion and query each 100/min), not as one shared 100/min ceiling as this row… |
| Model Studio new-user free quota | Alibaba Cloud | a person completes a signup form | Typically 1,000,000 tokens per eligible model (qwen-max, Qwen3-Coder-Plus, etc. each get their own quota, not transferable between models), valid 90 days from the later of activation, model release o… | no stated expiry | 2026-08-26 | source | International (Singapore) endpoint only; enable 'Free Quota Only' mode to prevent auto-billing after exhaustion; 90-day expiry |
| Nebius Builder Program credits | Nebius | a person completes a signup form | On registration and email verification: USD $25 in Nebius Token Factory credits plus USD $25 in Tavily partner credits. | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | CREDITS EXPIRE 90 DAYS FROM ISSUANCE, verbatim: "All promotional credits are nonrefundable, nontransferable, and expire 90 days from the date of issuance. Expired credits are forfeited." Registration is limited to one a… |
| Nemotron 3 Nano Omni (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 256,000 tok… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-08 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. The model page carries NVIDIA's notice for the free endpoint: "For the free endpoint… |
| Nemotron 3 Super (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 262,144 tokens; input:… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-05 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. End rule: when OpenRouter stops listing this slug at $0, the row is retired to a dat… |
| Nemotron 3 Ultra (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 1,000,000 tokens; input… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-08 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. The model page carries NVIDIA's notice for the free endpoint: "For the free endpoint… |
| Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 128,000 tokens; input:… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-08 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. The model page says use of the free endpoint is logged: "The logged session data for… |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 1,000,000 tokens; input: te… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-08 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. The model page carries NVIDIA's notice for the free endpoint: "For the free endpoint… |
| NIM / build.nvidia.com developer credits | NVIDIA | a person completes a signup form | Free credits for NVIDIA-hosted NIM endpoints on build.nvidia.com (“anyone can sign up to the NVIDIA API Catalog for free credits”; free Developer Program membership gives “free access to NIM API endp… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | PROVENANCE CORRECTION 2026-09-08 (second of three; see afr-0004 and afr-0016): this row carried access: "phone-verification" at confidence: verified and its source_url does not support it. That URL is a launch BLOG POST… |
| NLP Cloud $15 free credit | NLP Cloud | a person completes a signup form | Pay-as-you-go plan: "Automatically get a $15 FREE credit". | no stated expiry | 2026-10-08 | source | The credit is on the pay-as-you-go plan, which invoices usage after the fact ("You are invoiced after the fact, based on usage."). Whether a payment card is needed to start is not stated on the page. |
| North Mini Code (free) on OpenRouter | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | $0 prompt and $0 completion tokens on cohere/north-mini-code:free, as listed on openrouter.ai/api/v1/models (prompt 0, completion 0) when read 2026-10-05. Context 256,000 tokens; input: text. | no stated expiry | 2026-10-05 | source | Limits are OpenRouter's policy for :free variants (see afr-0010, and afr-0047 for the one-off $10 unlock); they are not restated here. End rule: when OpenRouter stops listing this slug at $0, the row is retired to a dat… |
| Nous Portal free plan (free models only) | Nous Research | a person completes a signup form | Free plan: "Free $0 Free models only Standard rate limits $0 monthly credits". When read 2026-10-06, the portal's public catalog listed at $0.00/1M: inclusionAI Ling 3.1 Flash, Ling 3.0 Flash Fin, Li… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | The rate-limit figures for "Standard rate limits" are not stated publicly. An account is needed: "All API access is authenticated by key or session" (portal.nousresearch.com/llms.txt). Whether a card is needed is not st… |
| Novita new-user trial voucher | Novita AI | a person completes a signup form | New-user credit voucher for Novita's model APIs. Novita's own FAQ refers to “my $1 credit voucher” and says vouchers are revoked when “suspicious registration activity is detected”; there is no stand… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | PROVENANCE FIX 2026-09-08: source_url was previously a third-party aggregator (mintlify.com/cheahjs/free-llm-api-resources/providers/trial/novita), which violates this catalog's absolute first-party provenance rule; rep… |
| OpenCode Zen free models | OpenCode | a person completes a signup form | Six models served at no cost through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint (https://opencode.ai/zen/v1/chat/completions), listed as "Free" for input, output and cached read in the published price table: Big… | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | A ROTATING SET, NOT AN ENTITLEMENT — treat the model list as a dated snapshot, the same way afr-0010 treats OpenRouter's :free variants. The free models are offered during feedback-collection periods and the table says… |
| OpenRouter :free model variants | OpenRouter | a person completes a signup form | Rotating set of :free model variants — 16 of 467 models carried a :free suffix at $0 prompt and completion when read from openrouter.ai/api/v1/models on 2026-10-08: NVIDIA Nemotron 3 (nano-omni-30b r… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-08 | source | ROSTER MOVED 2026-09-27 → 2026-10-08: 17 of 458 became 16 of 467. Gone: InclusionAI Ling 3.0 Flash Fin, Qwen 3.8 27B. New: Apodex 1.1 Mini. Earlier, 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-27: 20 of 443 became 17 of 458. Gone: InclusionAI… |
| OpenRouter for Startups | OpenRouter | a person applies to a partner program | Up to $3,000 in universal inference credits, spendable across OpenRouter's frontier and open model catalog rather than scoped to one vendor, plus 0% processing fees for 12 months (no platform markup… | limited-time, no date | 2026-08-28 | source | NOT open access, and the gate is the main thing to read: eligibility requires a pre-Series B venture-backed startup, building an AI-native product full-time, REFERRED BY AN APPROVED OPENROUTER PARTNER, with a public com… |
| Pinecone Starter plan | Pinecone | a person completes a signup form | Up to 2 GB storage, 2M write units/month, 1M read units/month, 5 indexes, 100 namespaces/index | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | community support only. Re-read first-party 2026-09-16 and holds exactly: Starter shows 'Up to 2 GB' storage, 'Up to 2M/mo' write units, 'Up to 1M/mo' read units, 'Up to 5' indexes and 100 namespaces per index. |
| Pollinations free Pollen from Quests | Pollinations.ai | a person completes a signup form | "Free Pollen from Quests to start": Pollen is Pollinations' credit unit, spent across its text, image, audio and video API. The amount is not stated publicly. | no stated expiry | 2026-10-08 | source | Not keyless: the API docs say "All generation requests require an API key". How much Pollen a Quest gives is not stated publicly. |
| Qdrant Cloud free cluster | Qdrant | a person completes a signup form | 1 free cluster forever: 0.5 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 4 GB disk, single node — plus free Cloud Inference with selected models | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | no high availability. Re-read first-party 2026-09-16 and holds; the tier is labelled 'Free forever … for testing, and prototypes'. NEW since the last read: the free tier now also lists 'Free Cloud Inference With Selecte… |
| Ramp Rewards — Factory 60M tokens | Factory (via Ramp Rewards) | a person applies to a partner program | 60M tokens on Factory, described on the offer page as 3 months free | no stated expiry | 2026-08-24 | source | Redeemed through Ramp Rewards, so it needs an approved Ramp corporate-card account rather than an ordinary signup; the offer page carries the headline and an email capture and nothing else — no end date, no eligibility… |
| Ramp Rewards — OpenAI API credits | OpenAI (via Ramp Rewards) | a person applies to a partner program | Up to $2,500 in OpenAI API credits for startups | no stated expiry | 2026-08-24 | source | “Up to” — the offer page states no tier table, so the amount an individual startup actually receives is unstated and may be well below $2,500; redeemed through Ramp Rewards, so it needs an approved Ramp corporate-card a… |
| Ramp Router | Ramp | a person completes a signup form | Free routing through 2026 on an OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible endpoint fronting 26+ models (Claude, GPT, Gemini, Kimi, DeepSeek, Qwen, GLM, Grok); you pay provider list price for the tokens themselves… | no stated expiry | 2026-08-23 | source | launched 2026-08-20, so the terms are new and unproven; free routing is time-boxed — “free through 2026” — and the $26 credit is “subject to offer terms” that the landing page does not state; US-only (“individual develo… |
| Replicate free runs on select models | Replicate | a person completes a signup form | "You can run select models on Replicate for free, but after a bit you’ll be asked to set up billing." The amount is not stated publicly. | no stated expiry | 2026-10-08 | source | How much free use before billing is required is not stated publicly. "Some features are only available to customers with billing set up." |
| Requesty free plan (free models) | Requesty | a person completes a signup form | Free plan at $0 for the platform on free models: "200 requests per day". "No credit card required". | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | The free model names are not stated publicly on the pricing page. Sign-up is implied ("Start free"), and its details are not stated. Paid use is "what your application spends, plus 5%". |
| Routeway Starter Free plan | Routeway | a person completes a signup form | "Starter Free": free model IDs end in :free (e.g. deepseek-r1:free) and "cost $0.00". "200 requests per day", "Single concurrent request", "Shared low-priority queue", "Best-effort availability"… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | PER-MINUTE LIMIT: ROUTEWAY'S OWN DOCS DISAGREE. The rate-limits page (docs.routeway.ai/getting-started/rate-limits.md) says "5 Requests Per Minute (RPM)". The FAQ (docs.routeway.ai/faq.md) says "20 requests/minute" and… |
| SambaNova Cloud Free Tier + $5 credit | SambaNova | a person completes a signup form | No-card Free Tier: 20 req/min but only 20 requests/DAY, 200K tokens/day (DeepSeek-V3.1, Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct, gpt-oss-120b); plus $5 signup credit | no stated expiry | 2026-08-28 | source | 20 requests/day makes the no-card tier nearly unusable for agents; credit expiry unclear (30d-3mo reported). Re-read 2026-08-28: every figure above still matches the provider's rate-limit table unchanged. The no-card co… |
| Scaleway Generative APIs free tier | Scaleway | a person completes a signup form | Free tier on Generative APIs: "1 million tokens and 60 minutes of audio transcription". Charges start "from token number 1,000,001". | no stated expiry | 2026-10-08 | source | Prices on the page are in euros, before tax. Whether the 1M tokens is one-time or recurring is not stated on the pricing page. Whether a payment card is needed to start is not stated on the page. |
| Serper new-user queries | Serper | a person completes a signup form | 2,500 free Google SERP queries for new users, no credit card | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | one-time signup credit, not monthly |
| SiliconFlow $1 free credit | SiliconFlow | a person completes a signup form | "$1 in free credits to get you started" on serverless, pay-per-token inference. | no stated expiry | 2026-10-08 | source | One-time starting credit; the page states no expiry. |
| Supabase Free plan (Postgres + pgvector) | Supabase | a person completes a signup form | 2 active projects, 500 MB database, shared CPU with 500 MB RAM, unlimited API requests, 50,000 monthly active users, 5 GB egress plus 5 GB cached egress, 1 GB file storage | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | projects auto-pause after 1 week of inactivity — bad for always-on agent memory unless pinged. IMPORTANT ADDITION 2026-09-16, and the reason to re-read this row: *"Free projects are paused after 1 week of inactivity."… |
| Tavily Researcher plan | Tavily | a person completes a signup form | 1,000 API credits/month, ongoing, no credit card required | no stated expiry | 2026-09-08 | source | — |
| Ternary Bonsai 27B free serverless model | Together AI | a person adds a payment card | Prism ML's Ternary Bonsai 27B served on Together AI's serverless infrastructure at $0.00/1M tokens for both input and output, with a 262,144-token context window. Reached through Together's ordinary… | limited-time, no date | 2026-10-09 | source | Zero price is confirmed on two first-party pages (the model page and together.ai/pricing) and the model is listed "Free / Free" on docs.together.ai/docs/serverless-models. Not usable without paying first: Together's bil… |
| Together AI Startup Accelerator | Together AI | a person applies to a partner program | Up to $50,000 in free Together AI platform credits, banded by capital raised: Build (up to $5M raised) up to $15K, Scale ($5M-$10M) up to $30K, Grow (over $10M) up to $50K. Credits are spendable acro… | limited-time, no date | 2026-08-27 | source | Distinct from afr-0018, which is Together's small one-time signup credit available to anyone; this is a gated program and the two do not stack on the same evidence. NOT open access: a "targeted selection-based program"… |
| Trial (evaluation) API keys | Cohere | a person completes a signup form | Free trial keys, ongoing: 1,000 API calls/month total; Chat 20 req/min, Embed 2,000 inputs/min (image embed 5 inputs/min), Rerank 10 req/min | no stated expiry | 2026-08-27 | source | evaluation only - trial keys are 'not permitted to be used for production or commercial purposes' per cohere.com/pricing; that restriction is no longer stated on the rate-limits page at source_url, so read both. 1,000 c… |
| Upstash Redis free tier | Upstash | a person completes a signup form | 256 MB data, 500K commands/month, 10 GB bandwidth/month, ONE free database | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | adding a card auto-upgrades to pay-as-you-go; Vector/QStash free tiers priced separately. CORRECTION 2026-09-16 — THIS ROW OVERSTATED THE OFFER. It said 'up to 10 free databases'. The pricing page's plan comparison labe… |
| Voyage AI free token allowance | Voyage AI (MongoDB) | a person completes a signup form | First 200M tokens free on voyage-4-large / voyage-4 / voyage-4-lite / voyage-context-4 / voyage-code-4, and 50M on voyage-finance-2 / voyage-law-2 / voyage-code-2. Rerankers: 200M free on rerank-3 an… | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | one-time cumulative allowance per account, not monthly; lower rate limits until a payment method is added. BATCH API EXCLUDED, verbatim: "Free token credits do not apply to Batch API usage. All successfully processed Ba… |
| Weaviate Cloud free tier | Weaviate | a person completes a signup form | Perpetual free tier (no longer a 14-day sandbox): 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB disk, 1 collection with up to 3 tenants, 2,000 embedding requests/day, 1,000 Query Agent requests/month | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | single-collection limit is restrictive. Re-read first-party 2026-09-16 and holds: 'Always free — 1 cluster per user', 'No credit card required'. The word 'Sandbox' and the old 14-day framing no longer appear anywhere on… |
| Workers AI free daily neurons | Cloudflare | a person completes a signup form | 10,000 Neurons/day (~$0.11 of compute) at no charge, resetting 00:00 UTC — the same allocation on both the Workers Free and Workers Paid plans. Covers most of the catalog (Llama, DeepSeek distills, G… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | 10K neurons is roughly 22K output tokens/day on deepseek-r1-distill-qwen-32b and 49K on llama-3.3-70b (our arithmetic from the page's neuron prices, not a Cloudflare figure); mostly smaller/quantized open models. NOT AL… |
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| Offer | Provider | Human step | What it offers | Expiry | Verified | Source | Caveats |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilo AI Gateway free models (no key) | Kilo | unknown | Free models with no key and no account ("The gateway allows unauthenticated access for free models only.") — but "Auto Free may route your requests to providers that log prompts and outputs and use t… | no stated expiry | 2026-10-06 | source | DATA: "Auto Free may route your requests to providers that log prompts and outputs and use them to improve their services", and "Some free models require data collection to be allowed". Don't send anything confidential… |
| ModelScope API-Inference (free for registered users) | ModelScope | unknown | "API-Inference is provided free of charge to registered ModelScope users." Usage quotas are on a separate limits page. | no stated expiry | 2026-10-08 | source | Needs a ModelScope account and its access token. The quota figures are on ModelScope's Usage Limits page, which did not render for reading here, so they are not stated in this row. |
| Ollama Cloud free plan | Ollama | unknown | A $0 plan including starter usage credits and access to starter models, with 1 concurrent request and no service fees. Add credits to unlock the full model set. | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | THE CREDIT AMOUNT IS NOT PUBLISHED. The plan card says only "Starter usage credits included" with no dollar or token figure anywhere on the page, so this row states no quantum — the same treatment as afr-0051 (Vercel AI… |
| OVHcloud AI Endpoints anonymous tier | OVHcloud | unknown | Anonymous, unauthenticated inference against the AI Endpoints model catalogue at 2 requests per minute, per IP and per model — no API key, no account, no signup of any kind. Verbatim: "Anonymous: 2 r… | no stated expiry | 2026-09-16 | source | 2 req/min is a trickle — this is for evaluation and fallback, not workload. Exceeding it returns 429; an API access key raises it to 400 req/min per PCI project per model. RATE-LIMITED PER IP, WHICH IS THE TRAP FOR AGEN… |
How to hand an agent a key once a person has one: credentials. Discounts and spend-unlock offers are not free APIs, so they are not listed here.
Does a provider have a free tier? A–Z · Machine-readable: ai-deals.json