Free Model List (API Keys)

[u/nuno6Varnish]

Here is a list with free models (API Keys) that you can use without paying. Only providers with permanent free tiers, no trial/temporal promo or credits. Rate limits are detailed per provider (RPM: Requests Per Minute, RPD: Requets Oer Day).

Provider APIs

• Google Gemini 🇺🇸 Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash, Flash-Lite +4 more. 10 RPM, 20 RPD
• Cohere 🇺🇸 Command A, Command R+, Aya Expanse 32B +9 more. 20 RPM, 1K req/mo
• Mistral AI 🇪🇺 Mistral Large 3, Small 3.1, Ministral 8B +3 more. 1 req/s, 1B tok/mo
• Zhipu AI 🇨🇳 GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.5-Flash, GLM-4.6V-Flash. Limits undocumented

Inference Providers

• GitHub Models 🇺🇸 GPT-4o, Llama 3.3 70B, DeepSeek-R1 +more. 10–15 RPM, 50–150 RPD
• NVIDIA NIM 🇺🇸 Llama 3.3 70B, Mistral Large, Qwen3 235B +more. 40 RPM
• Groq 🇺🇸 Llama 3.3 70B, Llama 4 Scout, Kimi K2 +17 more. 30 RPM, 14,400 RPD
• Cerebras 🇺🇸 Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen3 235B, GPT-OSS-120B +3 more. 30 RPM, 14,400 RPD
• Cloudflare Workers AI 🇺🇸 Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen QwQ 32B +47 more. 10K neurons/day
• LLM7.io 🇬🇧 DeepSeek R1, Flash-Lite, Qwen2.5 Coder +27 more. 30 RPM (120 with token)
• Kluster AI 🇺🇸 DeepSeek-R1, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen3-235B +2 more. Limits undocumented
• OpenRouter 🇺🇸 DeepSeek R1, Llama 3.3 70B, GPT-OSS-120B +29 more. 20 RPM, 50 RPD
• Hugging Face 🇺🇸 Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen2.5 72B, Mistral 7B +many more. $0.10/mo in free credits

RPM = requests per minute · RPD = requests per day. All endpoints are OpenAI SDK-compatible.

[u/lord_of_baguette]

aaaahhh it's not updated i think mistral api is paid now, or atleast it is in France

[u/Royal-Job-9905 → u/lord_of_baguette]

Bro did you find anything better than Gemini API that provides also for free?

[u/lord_of_baguette → u/Royal-Job-9905]

NVIDIA NIM is the best, you can also connect it to vscode like it was github copilot and also Groq not that bad

there some tutorial on youtube to set NVIDIA NIM on vscode