Free
Things somebody will run for you and charge you nothing: free tiers, free endpoints, free plans. Not open weights — that you may download and host a model yourself is a fact about its licence, and the licence lists already say it. This page is only what costs you nothing and takes no machine of your own.
Models 40
A model somebody will run for you at no charge. The allowance is the entry: thirty requests a minute is generous for a side project and nothing at all for a product, and which it is depends on what you are building.
- Dots3-Note1 sellingOpenRouter free until 2026-12-31
- GPT OSS 120BOpenAI85th of 306· 28 boards32 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day; 8K tokens a minute, 200K a dayCerebras 5 requests a minute, 30K tokens a minute, 1M a day
- GPT OSS 20BOpenAI164th of 306· 13 boards21 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day; 8K tokens a minute, 200K a day
- Gemini 2.5 FlashGoogle12th of 42· 37 boards14 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview TTSGoogle2 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 2.5 Flash-LiteGoogle3rd of 111· 2 boards12 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 2.5 ProGoogle1st of 8· 49 boards13 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3 Flash PreviewGoogle3rd of 38· 36 boards11 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3.1 Flash Live PreviewGoogle1 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteGoogle109th of 414· 28 boards10 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3.5 FlashGoogle6th of 102· 64 boards13 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteGoogle70th of 414· 28 boards11 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3.5 Live TranslateGoogle1 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle11th of 326· 51 boards12 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini 3.7 FlashGoogle6th of 326· 52 boards12 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemini Embedding 2Google4 sellingGoogle free of charge on the free tier; the ceiling is set per account and shown only inside AI Studio
- Gemma 4 26B A4BGoogle67th of 132· 9 boards8 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Gemma 4 31BGoogle37th of 111· 15 boards17 sellingOpenRouter allowance not publishedCerebras 5 requests a minute, 30K tokens a minute, 1M a day
- InklingThinking Machines Lab67th of 326· 37 boards12 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Inkling SmallThinking Machines Lab63rd of 326· 19 boards7 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- LFM2.5 2.6BLiquid AI158th of 1631 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Laguna S 2.1Poolside5 sellingOpenRouter free until 2026-10-31
- Laguna XS 2.1Poolside3 sellingOpenRouter free until 2026-10-31
- Llama Prompt Guard 2 22MMeta1 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 14,400 a day; 15K tokens a minute, 500K a day
- Llama Prompt Guard 2 86MMeta1 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 14,400 a day; 15K tokens a minute, 500K a day
- NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VLNVIDIA110th of 169· 6 boards8 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Nemotron 3 UltraNVIDIA94th of 326· 23 boards13 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Nemotron 3.5 Content SafetyNVIDIA3 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Nemotron 3.5 LightningNVIDIA125th of 163· 3 boards6 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- North Mini CodeCohere115th of 163· 2 boards2 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- Orpheus Arabic SaudiCanopy Labs1 sellingGroq 10 requests a minute, 100 a day; 1.2K tokens a minute, 3.6K a day
- Orpheus V1 EnglishCanopy Labs1 sellingGroq 10 requests a minute, 100 a day; 1.2K tokens a minute, 3.6K a day
- Qwen3.6 27BAlibaba76th of 306· 11 boards14 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day; 8K tokens a minute, 200K a day
- Qwen3.8 27BAlibaba20th of 131· 17 boards18 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day; 8K tokens a minute, 2M a day
- Whisper Large V3 TurboOpenAI5 sellingGroq 20 requests a minute, 2,000 a day
- Whisper Large v3OpenAI2 sellingGroq 20 requests a minute, 2,000 a day
- Xing4.0-29B-A4BXingChen-AGI2 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- flintRecursive Superintelligence, Inc.1 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
- gpt-oss-safeguard-20bOpenAI7 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day; 8K tokens a minute, 200K a day
- nemotron-3-nano-omniNVIDIA147th of 1633 sellingOpenRouter allowance not published
Free every day, all of them together
Added from what 13 of these sellers state as a figure. Another 29 publish no ceiling at all, so nothing of theirs is in the total.
Tools 1
Search, extraction, transcription. Tools carry free tiers as readily as models do and are almost never listed beside them.
Free every day, all of them together
Added from what 1 of these sellers state as a figure. 1 of them are stated by the month and divided by thirty to get here, so this figure is an estimate rather than something anybody published.
Agents 3
Something that will go and do the work. Rarer than a free model, and the quota is usually the reason.
- CompoundGroq1 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 250 a day; 70K tokens a minute
- Compound MiniGroq1 sellingGroq 30 requests a minute, 250 a day; 70K tokens a minute
- Firecrawl ExtractFirecrawl1 sellingFirecrawl 1,000 credits with a free key; 10 scrapes a minute, 2 crawls a minute, 2 concurrent browsers
Free every day, all of them together
Added from what 3 of these sellers state as a figure.
Subscriptions 14
An allowance rather than a rate: a monthly credit, a daily ceiling, or a tier of a paid product that is given away. Each says what it withholds.
- AssemblyAI free creditAssemblyAI1 sellingAssemblyAI $50 of credit, no card required; streaming capped at 5 new streams a minute against 100 when paid
- Brave Search API free creditBrave Search API1 sellingBrave Search API $5 of credit every month, applied automatically; 50 queries a second
- ChatGPT FreeOpenAI1 sellingOpenAI unlimited text chats with GPT-5.6 Luna, subject to abuse guardrails; limited messages with uploads, limited and slower image generation, limited voice, limited deep research, limited memory and limited Codex
- Claude FreeAnthropic1 sellingAnthropic Fable, Opus, Sonnet and Haiku at half the weekly limits, with Claude Code, Cowork, Design and Science, memory, skills and connectors
- Cloudflare Workers AI free allocation1 sellingCloudflare 10,000 Neurons a day at no charge, reset daily at 00:00 UTC; beyond it requests fail unless the account is on a paid plan
- Cohere trial keyCohere1 sellingCohere 1,000 API calls a month; 20 chat requests a minute, 10 reranks, 5 transcriptions, 2,000 embedding inputs
- Cursor HobbyAnysphere1 sellingAnysphere the free tier, one user
- Deepgram free creditDeepgram1 sellingDeepgram $200 of credit, no card required and no expiry, spendable across speech-to-text, text-to-speech and the voice agent API
- Devin FreeCognition1 sellingCognition a light quota for agents, limited model availability, unlimited inline edits and tab completions
- ElevenLabs FreeElevenLabs1 sellingElevenLabs 10,000 credits a month, not rolled over; no commercial licence — that begins at the paid tier
- GitHub Copilot FreeGitHub Copilot1 sellingGitHub Copilot 2,000 completions and 50 chat requests a month
- Google AI FreeGoogle1 sellingGoogle the Gemini app with access to 3.6 Flash and varying access to 3.1 Pro, image generation and editing, Deep Research, Gemini Live, Canvas, Gems, and limited Nano Banana Pro inside Flow
- Hugging Face monthly inference credits1 sellingHugging Face Inference Providers $0.10 a month on a free account, $2.00 with PRO or per Team seat, spent across every provider Hugging Face routes to
- Suno FreeSuno1 sellingSuno 50 credits renewed daily, about ten songs; no commercial use, the v4.5-all model only, and a shared queue
Free every day, all of them together
Added from what 7 of these sellers state as a figure. 4 of them are stated by the month and divided by thirty to get here, so this figure is an estimate rather than something anybody published. Another 7 publish no ceiling at all, so nothing of theirs is in the total.
Nothing here is inferred. A rate of nought counts only where the seller published it as one — everywhere else in the catalogue a nought is treated as a rounding mistake and blocked, because a price that rounded below a micro-dollar is not a gift. Figures read 2026-10-31.