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A fresh free LLM API key,every morning

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Want to try a new model or run a quick script demo without thinking about billing? Now you can. Y-API's "daily shared free key" hands out a ready-to-use key every day with a $20 quota pool behind it — log in and claim it.

## How it works

Every day at 00:05 UTC, the system issues a new shared API key backed by a
$20 pool for that day. First come, first served — once the pool is drained, you wait for tomorrow's key. The old key dies automatically when the new one goes live.

Why is the key shared? Because it's a trial key by design: it gets you in the door and lets you run real requests the same day, not a long-lived credential.
The page shows the remaining quota and the number of claims in real time, so check before you head over.

## Three steps

  1. Sign in to Y-API with GitHub or Google;
  2. Open /daily-key and copy today's key;
  3. Plug the key and the Base URL shown on the page into any OpenAI-compatible client.

CLI users can go straight to curl:

  export OPENAI_BASE_URL=<the API endpoint shown on the claim page>
  export OPENAI_API_KEY=<your claimed key>

  curl "$OPENAI_BASE_URL/v1/chat/completions" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"model":"<a model from the list
  below>","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}'
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## Models available today (snapshot: 2026-10-06)

20 models, grouped by provider prefix — the live list on the claim page is
always the source of truth:

  openai:     openai/gpt-5.6-sol · openai/gpt-5.6-luna
  anthropic:  anthropic/claude-opus-5 · anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
  deepseek:   deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash · deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro ·
              deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash · deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731
  moonshotai: moonshotai/kimi-k3 · moonshotai/kimi-k2.6
  z-ai:       z-ai/glm-5.2 · z-ai/glm-5.3 · z-ai/glm-5.3-flash
  qwen:       qwen/qwen3.8-flash
  minimax:    minimax/minimax-m2.7
  tencent:    tencent/hy3 · tencent/hy4-preview
  xiaomi:     xiaomi/mimo-v2.5 · xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-flash
  stepfun:    stepfun/step-3.7-flash
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Good to know

  • The pool is shared: once today's $20 is used up by everyone, the next key arrives at 00:05 UTC.
  • Don't ship it to production: this key expires tomorrow. For steady workloads, use your own account's key — quota and billing stay yours.
  • Basic gate on new sign-ups: to keep bot farms from draining the pool, registration has an account-age check. Existing users are unaffected.

Today's key is already on the page:

👉 https://y-api.bestvirtualgoods.com/daily-key

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