Free tiers for agents, checked and dated. Which free, no-payment APIs are up, gated, or down today — verified by read-only probes, one small GET per API, every day.
Generated: 2026-08-15 13:00 UTC · by bin/api-health
31 checked · 29 OK · 1 AUTH · 1 DOWN · 4 skipped (need key)
| Category | API | Status | HTTP | Latency | URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer | APIs.guru | OK | 200 | 345 ms | https://api.apis.guru/v2/list.json |
| Developer | GitHub REST | OK | 200 | 315 ms | https://api.github.com/repos/torvalds/linux |
| Developer | JSONPlaceholder | OK | 200 | 117 ms | https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1 |
| Developer | Open Trivia Database | OK | 200 | 260 ms | https://opentdb.com/api.php?amount=1 |
| Developer | QR Server | OK | 200 | 602 ms | https://api.qrserver.com/v1/create-qr-code/?data=hi&size=100x100 |
| Developer | TimeAPI.io | OK | 200 | 366 ms | https://timeapi.io/api/Time/current/zone?timeZone=America/New_York |
| Finance | CoinGecko | OK | 200 | 190 ms | https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/ping |
| Finance | Frankfurter | DOWN | — | — | https://api.frankfurter.dev/v1/latest |
| Finance | SEC EDGAR | OK | 200 | 156 ms | https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0000320193.json |
| Finance | open.er-api.com | OK | 200 | 123 ms | https://open.er-api.com/v6/latest/USD |
| Geo | OpenStreetMap Nominatim | OK | 200 | 486 ms | https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=London&format=json&limit=1 |
| Geo | REST Countries | OK | 200 | 209 ms | https://restcountries.com/v3.1/name/france?fields=name |
| Geo | Zippopotam.us | OK | 200 | 176 ms | https://api.zippopotam.us/us/90210 |
| Geo | ip-api.com | OK | 200 | 48 ms | http://ip-api.com/json/8.8.8.8 |
| Geo | ipapi.co | OK | 200 | 154 ms | https://ipapi.co/8.8.8.8/json/ |
| Health | Open Food Facts | OK | 200 | 760 ms | https://world.openfoodfacts.org/api/v2/product/737628064502.json |
| Health | OpenFDA | OK | 200 | 678 ms | https://api.fda.gov/drug/label.json?limit=1 |
| Health | PubMed E-utilities | OK | 200 | 135 ms | https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/einfo.fcgi?retmode=json |
| Knowledge | Dictionary API | OK | 200 | 294 ms | https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/api/v2/entries/en/hello |
| Knowledge | Open Library | OK | 200 | 6981 ms | https://openlibrary.org/isbn/9780140328721.json |
| Knowledge | Wikidata Query Service | OK | 200 | 224 ms | https://query.wikidata.org/sparql?query=ASK%7B%7D&format=json |
| Knowledge | Wikipedia REST | OK | 200 | 182 ms | https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/page/summary/Earth |
| Knowledge | arXiv | OK | 200 | 192 ms | http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=all:electron&max_results=1 |
| News | Hacker News | OK | 200 | 221 ms | https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json |
| News | Reddit JSON | AUTH | 403 | 128 ms | https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/top.json?limit=1 |
| Weather | NASA APIs | OK | 200 | 2752 ms | https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=DEMO_KEY |
| Weather | Open-Elevation | OK | 200 | 637 ms | https://api.open-elevation.com/api/v1/lookup?locations=10,10 |
| Weather | Open-Meteo | OK | 200 | 2529 ms | https://api.open-meteo.com/v1/forecast?latitude=52.52&longitude=13.41¤t_weather=true |
| Weather | SunriseSunset.io | OK | 200 | 221 ms | https://api.sunrisesunset.io/json?lat=38.9&lng=-77.0 |
| Weather | US National Weather Service | OK | 200 | 359 ms | https://api.weather.gov/points/39.7456,-97.0892 |
| Weather | USGS Earthquake Catalog | OK | 200 | 185 ms | https://earthquake.usgs.gov/fdsnws/event/1/query?format=geojson&limit=1 |
| Category | API | Auth |
|---|---|---|
| Finance | FRED | key |
| Health | Data.gov | key |
| News | Guardian Open Platform | key |
| News | TheNewsAPI / NewsData | key |
Staleness: 39 of 41 offers are older than 30 days · oldest 33 days · median 33. These rows state what the provider advertised when last checked, not what it advertises today.
Every row is documented — taken from the provider's own page on the date shown, not measured by a call from here.
| Provider | Offer | Status | Free tier | Verified | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gemini API free tier (AI Studio) | available | Ongoing free tier (not a trial) on Flash-class models (3.5 Flash, 3.1 Flash-Lite, 2.5 F... | 2026-08-15 | 0 d | |
| Z.ai (Zhipu) | GLM Flash models ($0) | available | GLM-4.7-Flash and GLM-4.5-Flash (text) and GLM-4.6V-Flash (vision) priced $0 for input,... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Alibaba Cloud | Model Studio new-user free quota | available | 1,000,000 tokens per eligible model (qwen-max, Qwen3-Coder-Plus, etc. each get their ow... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Mistral | La Plateforme Free mode | available | Default free tier on new accounts with access to API models incl. proprietary ones; lim... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Cohere | Trial (evaluation) API keys | available | Free trial keys, ongoing: 1,000 API calls/month total; Chat 20 req/min, Embed 2,000 inp... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| OpenAI | Complimentary daily tokens (data-sharing) | available | Up to 1M tokens/day on large models (gpt-5, gpt-4.1, gpt-4o, o3; 250K/day for Tiers 1-2... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Groq | GroqCloud Free Plan | available | Persistent free tier across Llama 3/4, Qwen, gpt-oss, Whisper; per-model limits visible... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Cerebras | Cerebras Inference free tier | available | 5 req/min, 30K tokens/min, 1M tokens/hour, 1M tokens/DAY (resets daily, not one-time); ... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| SambaNova | SambaNova Cloud Free Tier + $5 credit | available | No-card Free Tier: 20 req/min but only 20 requests/DAY, 200K tokens/day (DeepSeek-V3.1,... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| OpenRouter | OpenRouter :free model variants | available | Rotating set of :free models (Llama 3.3 70B, Gemma, DeepSeek variants): 20 req/min; 50 ... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Cloudflare | Workers AI free daily neurons | available | 10,000 Neurons/day (~$0.11 of compute), resets 00:00 UTC, on all models (Llama 4, DeepS... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| GitHub | GitHub Models free tier | available | Free API usage with any GitHub account (PAT): low-tier models 15 req/min / 150 req/day,... | 2026-07-27 | 19 d |
| NVIDIA | NIM / build.nvidia.com developer credits | available | 1,000 inference credits on free Developer Program signup (1 credit ~ 1 request; up to 5... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Hugging Face | Inference Providers monthly credits | available | $0.10/month included credits on free accounts ($2.00/month on PRO) usable across 200+ m... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Fireworks AI | Fireworks $1 starter credit | available | One-time $1 serverless inference credit (~1M tokens on a 70B-class model), 600 req/min ... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Hyperbolic | Hyperbolic Basic tier + $1 credit | available | $1 promotional credit on phone verification; Basic (free) tier 60 req/min; serverless L... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Novita AI | Novita $0.50 trial credit | available | $0.50 one-time credit (reported 1-year validity), 60 req/min, 200+ models incl. image gen | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Together AI | Together AI signup credit | available | Small one-time signup credit (third parties report $1-$25; amount not published); forme... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Tavily | Tavily Researcher plan | available | 1,000 API credits/month, ongoing, no credit card required | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Exa | Exa free tier | available | Provider pricing page lists $0 tier at up to 20,000 requests/month (web search, page te... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Serper | Serper new-user queries | available | 2,500 free Google SERP queries for new users, no credit card | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Brave | Brave Search API monthly credit | available | $5 in free credits every month, auto-applied (~1,000 queries on the base Search plan), ... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Jina AI | Jina Reader/Search free tokens | available | Every new API key includes 10,000,000 free tokens across all Jina products; keyless Rea... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Firecrawl | Firecrawl free plan | available | 1,000 credits/month (~1,000 pages scraped), 2 concurrent requests, no card | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Voyage AI (MongoDB) | Voyage AI free token allowance | available | First 200M tokens free on voyage-4 family / voyage-context-3 / voyage-code-3, and first... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Mixedbread | Mixedbread Starter credits | available | $5 one-time credits, 100 req/min, 10 vector stores; no card required | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Pinecone | Pinecone Starter plan | available | Up to 2 GB storage, 2M write units/month, 1M read units/month, 5 indexes, 100 namespace... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Qdrant | Qdrant Cloud free cluster | available | 1 free cluster forever: 0.5 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 4 GB disk, single node | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Weaviate | Weaviate Cloud free tier | available | Perpetual free tier (no longer a 14-day sandbox): 100,000 objects, 1 GB memory, 10 GB d... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Upstash | Upstash Redis free tier | available | 256 MB data, 500K commands/month, 10 GB bandwidth/month, up to 10 free databases | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Supabase | Supabase Free plan (Postgres + pgvector) | available | 2 active projects, 500 MB database, unlimited API requests, 5 GB egress, 1 GB file storage | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| AssemblyAI | AssemblyAI signup credits | available | $50 in free speech-to-text credits on signup, no credit card | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Deepgram | Deepgram signup credit | available | $200 credit on signup (speech-to-text + TTS, pay-as-you-go plan), no card | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| ElevenLabs | ElevenLabs free plan | available | 10,000 credits/month for TTS/STT/sound effects/voice design | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| LangChain | LangSmith Developer plan | available | 5,000 base traces/month (14-day retention), 1 seat, core tracing + evals | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Langfuse | Langfuse Cloud Hobby plan | available | 50,000 units/month, 30-day data access, 2 users, all platform features with limits | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Braintrust | Braintrust Starter plan | available | $10 credits/month, 1 GB processed data/month, 10K scores/month, unlimited users/projects | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| E2B | E2B Hobby tier | available | One-time $100 usage credits, up to 20 concurrent agent code sandboxes, 1-hour max sessi... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Modal | Modal Starter plan | available | $30/month free compute credits (recurring), 100 containers + 10 GPU concurrency, 3 seats | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| GitHub | GitHub Codespaces included hours | available | 120 core-hours + 15 GB-month storage per month on Free accounts (180 core-hours on Pro)... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Google Cloud | Google Cloud $300 trial (Vertex AI) | available | $300 welcome credit for new GCP customers, valid 90 days, usable on Vertex AI model gar... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Chutes | Chutes | retired | Free tier retired 2026-03. No free path remains. | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Anthropic | Anthropic API | none | No free API path — paid credits only. (Consumer chat plans are not an API path.) | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| DeepSeek | DeepSeek API | none | No free API path at time of check; prepaid credits only. | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| Moonshot AI | Moonshot / Kimi API | none | No free API path at time of check. | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| xAI | xAI / Grok API credits | retired | Promotional free credits appear dead — no live free path found. | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |
| fal.ai | fal.ai free tier | unverified | Free tier is rumor-only — no provider page substantiates it, so it was deliberately exc... | 2026-07-13 | 33 d — stale |