I made a list of Text‑generation LLM API models that are currently available as free and self‑replenishing from their API providers, stress‑tested for coding and for everyday chat.
Below is a table for the list of LLM Providers that we currently have (47).
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LLM Provider
Free Tier Quota
AION Labs
15 RPM / 20,000 TPD
Agnes AI
20 RPM / 1,000 RPD
AnyAPI AI
100,000 tokens/day / No Credit Card
Auriko
500 RPM (BYOK) / 1,000 RPM (Platform) / 1,000,000 tokens/month (BYOK) / Has Permanently Free models
BazaarLink
10 RPM / 50 RPD / Free Models only
Cloudflare Workers AI
150 to 1,500 RPM / 100,000 RPD / 13,000 TPD
Cohere AI
20 RPM / 1,000 API calls per month
ElectronHub
5 RPM / $0.25 Weekly Credits
EvolveX
5 RPM / No Credit Card
FastRouter
10 RPD per model / No Billing Credits Required
Free.ai
10 RPM / 30,000 TPD / 1,000 Requests per month / Currently available self-hosted models only
FreeInference
$20 CPD / 2 Max Concurrent Requests
Google Gemini
5-20 RPM / 20-500 RPD / 1M TPM / Uncapped TPD
Gonka Broker
6 RPM / ~1M tokens per month
Groq API
30 RPM / 14,400 RPD / 18,000 TPM
HelixMind
3 RPM / 50 RPD
Hugging Face Inference API
$0.10/month credits (~650K tokens)
Intern AI
30 RPM / 300,000 TPM / 90,000,000 Tokens per month (3,000,000 TPD)
Kilo Gateway
5 RPM / 200 RPD
LLM.Kiwi
40 RPH / No Credit Card
LLM7.IO
40 RPM / 2,400 RPD / 128,000 Characters per Request / 1,000,000 TPD
LiteRouter
Unlimited Requests (for some Free models) / 1 concurrent request / 7s Cooldown
MegaNova AI
60 RPM / 550 RPD / 200,000 TPM
Mistral AI
~2–30 RPM / 50,000 TPM shared pool
Mixlayer
20 RPM / Can be rate-limited (daily usage)
Naga AI
10 RPM / 100 RPD
NVIDIA NIM
40 RPM / Uncapped TPD
Odirouter
5 RPM / 50 RPD / Free Models Only / 2 Parallel Multimodal Queries
Ollama Cloud
1 Instance / 5-Hour Session Usage / 7-day Weekly Usage
OpenCode Zen
30 RPM / 500 RPD / 1,000,000 TPD / Daily Limits
OpenRouter
20 RPM / 50 RPD
Orcarouter
Unspecified rate limits / Free models only
Poixe AI
10,000 RPD / 10,000,000 TPD
Pooled AI
1M TPD / Minimax models only
Poolside
20 RPM / 200 RPD / 150,000 TPM / 1,000,000 TPD
Requesty
200 RPD / Free Models only
Routeway AI
5 RPM / 200 RPD / 300,000 TPD
SEA-LION
10 RPM
Tokeness
Unspecified Rate Limits / Free models only
TokenReply
3 RPM / Free Models Only
Void AI
100 RPM / 125,000 Daily Credits
VSLLM
Unspecified Rate Limits / Free Models only
xKiro AI
5M TPD / Free models only
Yolo-Auto
15 RPD
Z.AI (Zhipu AI)
1 Concurrent Request / Uncapped TPD
Zydit AI
Unlimited Requests / 10 RPM / Free models only (For v3 endpoints)
Zylo API
10 RPM / 7,200 RPD / 200,000 TPD
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Deep Dive
Situation
I wished to have a LLM API that is needed for my long-term projects. There are so many options I can choose from, but sometimes it always fails in the long run.
The main point of failure are the free trials and one-time credits, that once drained can never be refilled again.
Task
I promised for Free LLM APIs to follow these two main goals:
- To be Free without billing info.
- To be Replenishable without one-time or trial credits.
I had a third goal if second condition fails, that is:
- To have a minimum of one free model without spending any cost whatsoever (>=$0.0000001).
Action
So I've gone throughout the web, sailing across websites, as I went through several popular AI agents or libraries with their provider documentation showing a list of supported providers.
The goal is to sign myself up as a normal, unpaid user whose requirement is to know whether it refreshes its free quota or not.
I then stress-tested their model endpoints from each provider according to their rate limits.
The number of LLM Providers has dropped unexpectedly due to not having a single model found to be 200 OK but requiring payment.
Result
To store it as helpful information, I made a repository that showcases all verified providers and its models under a single README.
Hence, I named it "Free BYOK Models", where it looks for "Free AI models from their BYOK-compatible LLM Providers that are free and replenishable."
Contributing
The repository is updated regularly to make it up-to-date with its latest model lists.
If you find a provider that is free and replenishable, and has no gated services, feel free to comment, or submit a PR since it updates fast.
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