{
  "dataset": "free-llm-api-hub",
  "version": "2.9.1",
  "generated": "2026-10-08",
  "license": "MIT",
  "homepage": "https://freellmapihub.com/",
  "docs": "https://freellmapihub.com/api/",
  "description": "Field-level provider changes (from/to), grouped by ISO week, newest first: the last 12 weeks ending at the newest change. Mined from the git log of providers.json.",
  "weeks": [
    {
      "week": "2026-W41",
      "start": "2026-10-05",
      "end": "2026-10-11",
      "count": 124,
      "changes": [
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "alibaba-model-studio",
          "name": "Alibaba Cloud (Model Studio)",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "1,000,000 tokens (example figure, varies by model), international/Singapore region only",
          "to": "Typically 1,000,000 tokens per model for new users, Singapore region (International deployment scope) only"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "alibaba-model-studio",
          "name": "Alibaba Cloud (Model Studio)",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Qwen open & proprietary models",
          "to": "Per-model, account-level limits that apply equally to free-quota and paid calls (International): e.g. qwen-plus 600 RPM / 1,000,000 TPM; qwen-flash and qwen-turbo 600 RPM / 5,000,000 TPM; qwen3.6-plus and qwen3.7-plus 15,000 RPM / 5,000,000 TPM. HTTP 429 when a limit is exceeded; HTTP 403 when the free quota is exhausted"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "alibaba-model-studio",
          "name": "Alibaba Cloud (Model Studio)",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Excludes batch processing, context caching, fine-tuning, and dedicated deployment",
          "to": "Covers real-time inference only; excludes batch invocation, fine-tuning, model deployment, custom models, PAI-DSW and OSS fees. Account information must be completed before activation. One quota per account (shared with RAM users); re-registering does not grant a new one."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "arli-ai",
          "name": "Arli AI",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Free plan ($0): access to all text LLMs (Gemma, Qwen, etc.), capped at ~5 requests per 2-day window, 12K context, 1 request at a time",
          "to": "Free plan ($0): text LLMs for testing, max 5 requests every 2 days per model, 12K context, 1 request at a time, delayed responses; no image generation"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "arli-ai",
          "name": "Arli AI",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "1 request at a time; ~5 requests per 2 days across all models; max 12K context; delayed responses",
          "to": "5 requests every 2 days per model; 1 request at a time; max 12K context tokens"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "baseten",
          "name": "Baseten",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Model APIs are priced per token; dedicated deployments are priced by compute time (per minute)",
          "to": "Model APIs default (models with combined token limits): Basic (unverified) 15 RPM / 100,000 TPM; Basic (verified) 120 RPM / 500,000 TPM; HTTP 429 when exceeded"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "baseten",
          "name": "Baseten",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Basic is $0/month, pay as you go. Current pricing confirms new-account credits but does not publish an amount or expiration date",
          "to": "Basic is $0/month, pay as you go. Current pricing confirms new-account credits but does not publish an amount or expiration date. Model APIs are priced per token; dedicated deployments are priced by compute time."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "camb-ai",
          "name": "Camb.ai",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "2,000 credits/month covering ~25K characters of MARS TTS, 125 min of STT, plus limited watermarked dubbing and translation (incl. 5 OCR pages)",
          "to": "Free plan: 5,000 credits one-time (no monthly renewal) across TTS, dubbing, speech and translation tools"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "camb-ai",
          "name": "Camb.ai",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "500 chars/generation TTS, 15 min/generation STT; 2,000 credits/month",
          "to": "Not published by the provider; bounded by the one-time 5,000-credit grant"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "camb-ai",
          "name": "Camb.ai",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Uses its own MARS8 voice models (not OpenAI-compatible). Dubbing output on the free tier is watermarked. Card and commercial terms not stated on the pricing page.",
          "to": "Uses its own MARS voice models (not OpenAI-compatible). Free credits are a one-time grant, not monthly. Per-feature limits (characters per generation, watermarking) are not readable on the current pricing page. Card and commercial terms not stated on the pricing page."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "camb-ai",
          "name": "Camb.ai",
          "field": "free_type",
          "from": "renewing-quota",
          "to": "trial-credit"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "cerebras",
          "name": "Cerebras",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Published Free Trial per-model limits: 5 RPM / 30,000 TPM / 1,000,000 TPH / 1,000,000 TPD (e.g. gpt-oss-120b, zai-glm-4.7, gemma-4-31b); limits vary by model",
          "to": "Published Free Trial limits for gpt-oss-120b and qwen-3.8-27b: 5 RPM / 30,000 uncached TPM / 90,000 total TPM / 1,000,000 TPH / 1,000,000 TPD; limits vary by model"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "clarifai",
          "name": "Clarifai",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Catch: SMS phone verification is required to claim the $5. Credit is one-time and expires 30 days after grant; a card is required to recharge afterward. Checked ToS (clarifai.com/company/terms, effective 2025-10-01) and billing docs (docs.clarifai.com/control/account-billing/) for commercial/production-use language. No clause restricts the $5 trial credit / Pay-As-You-Go tier to evaluation-only. The 'evaluation purposes only, not for production' language in §7.3 applies specifically to Beta Releases, not this plan. No explicit statement either way, so left null per contribution guidelines.",
          "to": "Could not be re-verified on 2026-10-08: docs.clarifai.com no longer resolves and www.clarifai.com does not respond. Nebius has announced that Clarifai's core team joined Nebius and that it licensed Clarifai's inference technology. Treat this entry as likely discontinued. Previously recorded: SMS phone verification to claim a one-time $5 credit that expired 30 days after grant."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "cloudflare-workers-ai",
          "name": "Cloudflare Workers AI",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "30+ models: LLMs (Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen...), embeddings, image, audio",
          "to": "10,000 Neurons/day (free allocation). Per-task request limits: text generation 300 requests/min (models that require Workers Paid: 20 requests/min per model); text embeddings 3,000/min; speech recognition, text-to-image, translation, image-to-text 720/min"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "contextual-ai",
          "name": "Contextual AI",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Bounded by the $25 credit balance",
          "to": "Not published by the provider (Rerank requests capped at 400,000 tokens each)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "datalab",
          "name": "Datalab (Marker / Surya)",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "10 requests/min on the free tier; per-page pricing (see datalab.to/pricing)",
          "to": "25 requests/min on the free tier; per-page pricing (see datalab.to/pricing)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "datalab",
          "name": "Datalab (Marker / Surya)",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Landing page still advertises a $5 signup credit, but the billing page describes the current free tier as a recurring monthly allowance ($20/mo work email, $10/mo personal, no card, 10 req/min) “designed to let you run a complete proof of concept before committing to a paid plan” — no explicit statement on commercial use of the hosted API. The self-hosted OSS weights carry a separate restriction (research/personal/startups under $2M ARR/funding).",
          "to": "Landing page still advertises a $5 signup credit, but the billing page describes the current free tier as a recurring monthly allowance ($20/mo work email, $10/mo personal, no card, 25 req/min) “designed to let you run a complete proof of concept before committing to a paid plan” — no explicit statement on commercial use of the hosted API. The self-hosted OSS weights carry a separate restriction (research/personal/startups under $2M ARR/funding). Signup does not require a phone number; checked via Google signup flow on 2026-10-02."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "datalab",
          "name": "Datalab (Marker / Surya)",
          "field": "phone_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "elevenlabs",
          "name": "ElevenLabs",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Concurrency tied to the Free plan (not numerically published)",
          "to": "2 concurrent requests on the Free plan"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "elevenlabs",
          "name": "ElevenLabs",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "The free tier is NON-COMMERCIAL only per the Terms of Use (a commercial license begins on paid Starter, $6/mo), and historically required attribution. API access is available on the free plan. No credit card to sign up.",
          "to": "The free tier is NON-COMMERCIAL only per the Terms of Use (commercial license starts on paid Starter, $6/mo); non-commercial use requires a personal email address. Free-plan credits do not roll over. API access is available on the free plan. No credit card to sign up."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "fireworks-ai",
          "name": "Fireworks AI",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Various open-weight models",
          "to": "10 requests/min with no payment method or no credits; 6,000 RPM account-wide maximum once a payment method and active credits are on file"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "fish-audio",
          "name": "Fish Audio",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "8,000 credits/month (~7 min of generation, up to 500 characters per generation); TTS, STT and voice cloning",
          "to": "App Free plan: 8,000 credits/month (~7 min, up to 500 characters per generation). API: the s2.1-pro-free TTS model is $0 through 2026-11-30 under fair-use limits (pay-as-you-go API, no subscription)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "fish-audio",
          "name": "Fish Audio",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "500 characters per generation; 8,000 credits/month",
          "to": "API: 5 concurrent requests (Starter tier, <$100 paid); s2.1-pro-free under unpublished fair-use limits. App Free plan: 500 characters per generation, 8,000 credits/month"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "fish-audio",
          "name": "Fish Audio",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Free plan is personal, non-commercial only (commercial use requires a Premium subscription). No credit card required to sign up.",
          "to": "Free app plan is personal, non-commercial only (commercial use requires Premium). The $0 API model s2.1-pro-free is pitched for testing, prototyping and smaller businesses but has no TTFA/DPA guarantees. No credit card required for the Free plan."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "gladia",
          "name": "Gladia",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Not published; bounded by the €50 credit",
          "to": "30 real-time and 25 async concurrent requests (Starter pay-as-you-go plan that carries the €50 credit)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "google-gemini",
          "name": "Google Gemini API (AI Studio)",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Varies by model: 5-30 RPM and 15-1,000 RPD (e.g. 2.5 Pro: 5 RPM/100 RPD; 2.5 Flash: 10/250; 2.5 Flash-Lite: 15/1,000; embeddings: 100 RPD; TTS: 15 RPD)",
          "to": "Per-model; Google no longer publishes the free-tier numbers in its public docs — they are shown only on the AI Studio rate-limit page after sign-in"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "groq",
          "name": "Groq",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Open-weight models (Llama, Qwen, GPT-OSS) plus Whisper, no credit card required",
          "to": "Open-weight models (GPT-OSS, Qwen) plus Whisper, no credit card required"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "groq",
          "name": "Groq",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "e.g. llama-3.1-8b-instant: 30 RPM/14.4K RPD/6K TPM/500K TPD; llama-3.3-70b-versatile: 30 RPM/1K RPD/12K TPM/100K TPD; qwen/qwen3.6-27b: 30 RPM/1K RPD/8K TPM/200K TPD; similar for GPT-OSS and Whisper models",
          "to": "Free plan examples: openai/gpt-oss-120b, openai/gpt-oss-20b and qwen/qwen3.8-27b: 30 RPM/1K RPD/8K TPM/200K TPD; Whisper models: 20 RPM/2K RPD/7.2K audio seconds/hour and 28.8K/day; limits vary by model"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "huggingface",
          "name": "HuggingFace",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Free CPU Basic + ZeroGPU for Spaces; Inference Providers has a monthly credit ($0.10/mo on Free plan, $2.00/mo on PRO/Team/Enterprise)",
          "to": "Free CPU Basic + ZeroGPU for Spaces; Inference Providers has no included credit on the Free plan (credits must be purchased) — $2.00/mo is included only on PRO/Team/Enterprise"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "hume-ai",
          "name": "Hume AI (Octave TTS)",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "10,000 characters/month TTS (~10 minutes) on the Free plan",
          "to": "Free tier for Octave TTS and EVI; new accounts start with $20 in credits"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "hume-ai",
          "name": "Hume AI (Octave TTS)",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "15 requests per minute",
          "to": "Rate set by subscription tier, numbers not published; max 5,000 characters per utterance and 5 generations per request"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "hume-ai",
          "name": "Hume AI (Octave TTS)",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "The free plan includes a commercial license; overage billed at $0.15/1,000 chars. No card stated as required to start. Not OpenAI-compatible.",
          "to": "Free and Starter tiers are non-commercial only (commercial use starts on Creator). The Free plan cannot buy overage, so going past it means upgrading. Not OpenAI-compatible. The former plan quota (10,000 characters/month) is no longer on a live official page: hume.ai/pricing redirected to the homepage on 2026-10-08."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "hume-ai",
          "name": "Hume AI (Octave TTS)",
          "field": "commercial_ok",
          "from": true,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "jina-ai",
          "name": "Jina AI",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Free key: 100 RPM / 100k TPM for embeddings & reranker (2 concurrent); keyless Reader 20 RPM",
          "to": "Free key: 100 RPM / 100k TPM for embeddings & reranker; Reader 20 RPM keyless, 500 RPM with a free key"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "llamaparse",
          "name": "LlamaParse (LlamaCloud)",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Free plan: 10,000 credits/month (~10,000 pages in balanced parse mode at 1 credit/page)",
          "to": "Free plan: 10,000 credits/month (up to ~10,000 pages at the cheapest parse tier, as low as 1 credit/page)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "mistral",
          "name": "Mistral (La Plateforme)",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "\"Restrictive\" free tier explicitly for \"try and explore\" — official docs say to upgrade for \"actual projects and production use\"",
          "to": "\"Free mode\" (default for new accounts): API keys with included monthly usage and the lowest limits, \"intended for evaluation and prototyping\""
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "mistral",
          "name": "Mistral (La Plateforme)",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Not published publicly; exact caps only visible in-console after login (admin.mistral.ai)",
          "to": "Not published publicly; per-model requests/second, tokens/minute and tokens/month caps are shown only in-console (Admin Panel > API > Limits)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "mistral",
          "name": "Mistral (La Plateforme)",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Phone verification required to activate; no credit card required. Free tier is opt-in for data training.",
          "to": "No credit card required. In Free mode Mistral may use your inputs and outputs to train its models unless you opt out in the Admin panel. Phone verification at signup was recorded in an earlier check; the current docs do not mention it."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "modal",
          "name": "Modal",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Corrected from a previously listed \"$5-30/month\" range; this is a recurring monthly credit, not a one-time trial. Modal is serverless compute you deploy models on, not a hosted model API The full $30/month credit requires adding a payment method (without one the free credit is $5/month).",
          "to": "Recurring monthly credit, not a one-time trial. Modal is serverless compute you deploy models on, not a hosted model API. A payment method on file is required to use Modal at all."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "modelscope",
          "name": "ModelScope (API-Inference)",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "~2,000 free API calls/day across open-weight models (Qwen3, DeepSeek, GLM, Llama, etc.) via API-Inference",
          "to": "Free API-Inference calls paid with daily 'Magicubes': 200/day for signing in + 50/day after linking an Alibaba Cloud account (do not roll over); calls cost ~0.5 / 1 / 2 Magicubes for lightweight / standard / flagship models"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "modelscope",
          "name": "ModelScope (API-Inference)",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "~2,000 calls/day; concurrency/QPS caps applied and dynamically adjusted",
          "to": "Bounded by the daily Magicubes: ~250/day from signing in and linking an Alibaba Cloud account, plus any earned by other actions (~125-500 calls depending on model tier); concurrency dynamically limited, single concurrency guaranteed"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "moondream",
          "name": "Moondream Cloud",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Bounded by the $5/month credit",
          "to": "2 requests/sec on the free tier (10 req/sec with ≥$10 account balance); usage bounded by the $5/month credit"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "moondream",
          "name": "Moondream Cloud",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Recurring $5/month credit, no credit card required (stated on the pricing page/blog). Commercial terms not specified. OpenAI-compatible endpoint.",
          "to": "Recurring $5/month credit, no credit card required. Per the Terms (§5.2), data is not used to train Moondream's generally available models. Commercial terms for the hosted API not specified. OpenAI-compatible endpoint."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "nvidia-nim",
          "name": "NVIDIA NIM",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Some models have reduced context windows on the free trial",
          "to": "Up to 40 requests/min and 10,000 requests/day; limits may vary by model and traffic from other users may cause throttling"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "nanonets",
          "name": "Nanonets",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Up to 3 users on the free credit",
          "to": "Not published by the provider"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "nebius",
          "name": "Nebius AI Studio",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Various open-weight models",
          "to": "Default per-account RPM/TPM caps are shown in the Token Factory console and in response headers (not stated numerically in the docs; the docs' 60 RPM / 400,000 TPM baseline is labeled an illustrative example). Limits auto-scale: +20% per 15-minute window at >=80% usage, up to 20x the base"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "novita",
          "name": "Novita AI",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "$100 Sandbox credits, valid for 90 days",
          "to": "$100 promotional credits valid for 90 days for eligible Novita Agent Sandbox usage (CPU, RAM, storage), granted after an account-setup survey; Novita does not say they apply to Model API calls; the pricing page also lists a few LLMs as Free (e.g. Ling 3.1 Flash, Apodex 1.1 Mini)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "novita",
          "name": "Novita AI",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Various open-weight models",
          "to": "Per model, by account tier. New/low-spend accounts are Tier T1 (monthly top-ups <= $50): typically 30 RPM and 50M TPM per model (a few models 50 RPM; some 2M-5M TPM). The Free-priced LLMs (Ling 3.1 Flash, Apodex 1.1 Mini) are 30 RPM / 50M TPM at T1"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "novita",
          "name": "Novita AI",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Official signup advertises $100 Sandbox credits valid for 90 days; no credit card required. Novita Terms of Service state that the Site and Marketplace Offerings may not be exploited for any commercial purpose without express prior written permission.",
          "to": "Signup advertises $100 Sandbox credits valid for 90 days; Novita's sandbox pricing doc describes them as credits for \"eligible Novita Sandbox usage\" and does not say they apply to Model API calls. No credit card required. Novita Terms of Service state that the Site and Marketplace Offerings may not be exploited for any commercial purpose without express prior written permission."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "nutrient",
          "name": "Nutrient (Data Extraction API)",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "5,000 credits/month; per-page cost varies by parse mode (1-18 credits)",
          "to": "5,000 credits/month; Parse costs 1-18 credits/page by mode (Extract 7-24)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "ocr-space",
          "name": "OCR.space",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "25,000 conversions/month (Engine 1 & 2) plus 2,500 Engine 3 conversions/month; max 1 MB file, PDFs up to 3 pages",
          "to": "25,000 conversions/month (Engine 1 & 2) plus 1,000 Engine 3 conversions/month; max 1 MB file, PDFs up to 3 pages"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "ovhcloud-ai-endpoints",
          "name": "OVHcloud AI Endpoints",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Two Qwen3Guard models (Gen-8B and Gen-0.6B) are currently listed as Free in the catalog; access is available anonymously or with an API key tied to a Public Cloud project",
          "to": "Seven models are currently listed as Free: two Qwen3Guard moderation models, Stable Diffusion XL and four NVIDIA Riva TTS voices; access is available anonymously or with an API key tied to a Public Cloud project"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "ovhcloud-ai-endpoints",
          "name": "OVHcloud AI Endpoints",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": true,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "ollama-cloud",
          "name": "Ollama Cloud",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "$0 Free plan: access to cloud-hosted open models (Qwen, GPT-OSS, DeepSeek, etc.) via API",
          "to": "$0 Free plan: starter amount of cloud usage credits, limited to a smaller set of starter models; buying credits unlocks all cloud models"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "ollama-cloud",
          "name": "Ollama Cloud",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Session limits reset every 5 hours and weekly limits every 7 days; 1 concurrent cloud model on the free plan (exact token caps not published)",
          "to": "1 concurrent request on the free plan; included usage resets monthly from signup date (dollar amount of starter credits not published)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "ollama-cloud",
          "name": "Ollama Cloud",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "First-party — Ollama hosts the cloud models. Requires an ollama.com account + API key (`ollama signin`); the free plan is for light usage, Pro ($20/mo) raises limits. No card required.",
          "to": "First-party — Ollama hosts the cloud models. Requires an ollama.com account + API key. The old 5-hour session / weekly limits are gone: usage is now credit-based with a monthly reset; Pro ($20/mo) includes $60 of credits. Prompts/responses are not logged or trained on. Whether a card is required is not stated on the current pricing page."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "ollama-cloud",
          "name": "Ollama Cloud",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": false,
          "to": null
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "openrouter",
          "name": "OpenRouter",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "A rotating set of models with a :free suffix (~14 today; count fluctuates), single API across many providers",
          "to": "A rotating set of models with a :free suffix (16 on 2026-10-08; count fluctuates), single API across many providers"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "pinecone-inference",
          "name": "Pinecone Inference",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Starter (free) plan: 5M tokens/mo for embedding models (llama-text-embed-v2, multilingual-e5-large) and 500 requests/mo for the bge-reranker-v2-m3 rerank model",
          "to": "Starter (free) plan: 5M embedding tokens/month per model (llama-text-embed-v2, multilingual-e5-large, pinecone-sparse-english-v0) and 500 rerank requests/month (bge-reranker-v2-m3; the rate-limits doc also lists pinecone-rerank-v0 at 500)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "pinecone-inference",
          "name": "Pinecone Inference",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "5M embedding tokens/mo; 500 rerank requests/mo on Starter",
          "to": "Starter: 5M embedding tokens/mo per model; 250K embedding tokens/min per model (passage); 500 rerank requests/mo and 60 rerank requests/min per model; 100 inference requests/s and 2,000/min per project"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "pinecone-inference",
          "name": "Pinecone Inference",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Free rerank limited to bge-reranker-v2-m3; overages are pay-as-you-go. Not OpenAI-compatible. No card required.",
          "to": "Monthly limits are hard: reaching one returns 429 and you must upgrade (no pay-as-you-go overage on Starter). The pricing page lists only bge-reranker-v2-m3 as included on Starter while the rate-limits doc also lists pinecone-rerank-v0 at 500 — an internal inconsistency. Not OpenAI-compatible. Card requirement for Starter not stated on the pricing page or docs. No card was required at signup when last confirmed (2026-08); the current pages do not mention it."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "pollinations",
          "name": "Pollinations.ai",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Free hosted image models (Flux, Turbo, Stable Diffusion) via a simple GET URL; also text and audio. No signup required to start",
          "to": "Quest Pollen: create an account, complete eligible Quests on the Quests dashboard and claim the rewards; Quest Pollen is spent before paid Pollen on regular (non-paid-only) models. No anonymous/no-key generation — every generation endpoint requires an API key and costs Pollen ($1 ≈ 1 Pollen). Text, image, video, audio, embeddings and 3D models behind one OpenAI-compatible API"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "pollinations",
          "name": "Pollinations.ai",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Anonymous ~1 request / 15s; free registration (Seed tier) ~1 request / 5s",
          "to": "No per-request rate limits published for sk_ keys; usage is bounded by the Pollen balance (legacy raw pk_ keys: 1 Pollen per IP per hour)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "pollinations",
          "name": "Pollinations.ai",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Anonymous free images may carry a watermark (since 2025); free registration removes it via the nologo parameter. No card, no phone. Commercial use is not explicitly guaranteed in the docs.",
          "to": "The old anonymous 1 req/15s and Seed 1 req/5s tiers (and the watermark/nologo scheme) are gone from the current docs; the API moved to gen.pollinations.ai with keys from enter.pollinations.ai. Quest availability and reward amounts change (\"the dashboard and the linked issue are the source of truth\"). No credit card needed to try. Paid-only models require Paid Pollen. Commercial use is not explicitly addressed in the docs. The previous docs_url pointed at the stale master branch; the default branch is main."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "pollinations",
          "name": "Pollinations.ai",
          "field": "free_type",
          "from": "perpetual",
          "to": "trial-credit"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "pollinations",
          "name": "Pollinations.ai",
          "field": "openai_compatible",
          "from": false,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "poolside",
          "name": "Poolside",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Laguna M.1 (225B) and Laguna XS.2 (33B, open-weights) are free for a limited time via a self-serve developer API key (also on OpenRouter)",
          "to": "Free developer API key via Poolside Platform for Poolside's Laguna coding models (current lineup: Laguna S 2.1, Laguna XS 2.1, Laguna M.1); which models and limits apply to the free key is not documented"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "poolside",
          "name": "Poolside",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Preview rate limits not published",
          "to": "Not published"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "poolside",
          "name": "Poolside",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Coding-focused models. Poolside describes the free access as 'free for a limited time' (not perpetual) and it may change at general availability. Self-serve key at platform.poolside.ai; OpenRouter is an alternative route.",
          "to": "Coding-focused models. Docs describe Poolside Platform as \"fast, free developer access\"; paid access with a larger context window is via OpenRouter. The earlier 'free for a limited time' wording no longer appears in the current docs, and no end date is published. Self-serve key at platform.poolside.ai. No card was required at signup when last confirmed (2026-08); the current pages do not mention it."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "retell-ai",
          "name": "Retell AI",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "$10 in free credits plus 20 free concurrent calls — voice-agent orchestration (STT + LLM + TTS)",
          "to": "$10 in free trial credits (once per email address) plus 20 concurrent calls included — voice-agent orchestration (STT + LLM + TTS)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "retell-ai",
          "name": "Retell AI",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "20 free concurrent calls; voice agents ~$0.07-$0.31/min after the credit",
          "to": "20 concurrent calls per workspace (Pay-As-You-Go default)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "retell-ai",
          "name": "Retell AI",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "$10 signup credit with full platform access. A voice-agent builder (orchestration), not a raw model API. Retell’s Stripe case study describes capturing a card at signup for automatic billing once the free credits are used (a third-party review claims otherwise — treat card as required).",
          "to": "$10 trial credit with full platform access, granted once per email address. A payment method is required only to buy phone numbers or use the service beyond the free trial. A voice-agent builder (orchestration), not a raw model API. Voice agents cost ~$0.07-$0.31/min after the credit."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "retell-ai",
          "name": "Retell AI",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": true,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "rev-ai",
          "name": "Rev AI",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "One-time signup grant (does not renew). High-accuracy English ASR. No credit card required (stated on the signup page). Commercial terms not stated.",
          "to": "Free credits granted at signup (renewal/expiry not stated). High-accuracy English ASR. No credit card required (stated on the signup page). Commercial terms not stated."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "rime",
          "name": "Rime",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "3,000 free TTS minutes for every new account (Starter plan)",
          "to": "Free minutes for every new account (Starter plan): the pricing card says ~800 minutes (~800k characters), while the FAQ and docs say 3,000"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "runware",
          "name": "Runware",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "$2 in signup credits across first-party image models (FLUX.1/FLUX.2, Stable Diffusion 3, SDXL) on the Sonic Inference Engine — hundreds to thousands of generations",
          "to": "$2 in free credits for new users who sign up with a business email, usable on the Models API (image, video, audio, LLM and 3D models) on the Sonic Inference Engine"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "runware",
          "name": "Runware",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Not publicly specified; per-account concurrency applies",
          "to": "Per-organization REST rate limit counted in results per second (number not published; \"sits far above typical traffic\"); no hard concurrency limit (2-4 concurrent requests recommended)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "runware",
          "name": "Runware",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "The $2 requires signup with a business email (personal/free-mail domains may be rejected); one-time, non-renewing. No watermark, no card, commercial use allowed. The OpenAI-compatible endpoint is chat-only, not for images.",
          "to": "The $2 requires signup with a business email; no credit card required. Commercial use of Outputs is allowed, subject to each model's licence (Partner Models are cleared for commercial use by Runware). Third-party provider models are subject to those providers' own rate limits."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "sambanova",
          "name": "SambaNova Cloud",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Free Tier applies when no payment method is linked to the account; SambaCloud ToS grants a commercial license (no evaluation-only clause). The previously-listed \"$5 / 3 months\" trial could not be re-confirmed on official pages (2026-07-30).",
          "to": "Free Tier applies when no payment method is linked to the account; SambaCloud ToS grants a commercial license (no evaluation-only clause). The previously-listed \"$5 / 3 months\" trial could not be re-confirmed on official pages (2026-07-30). As of 2026-10-08 SambaNova's own pages disagree: the rate-limits doc still describes this no-card Free Tier, while the plans page says to add a payment method and buy credits before the first request. Needs a hands-on signup check."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "sarvam-ai",
          "name": "Sarvam AI",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "₹100 in free credits on signup, usable across all APIs including the Sarvam-M chat/LLM API and speech (STT/TTS)",
          "to": "₹100 in free credits on signup, usable across any API including chat completion (Sarvam-105B) and speech (STT/TTS); credits never expire"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "sarvam-ai",
          "name": "Sarvam AI",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Not published; bounded by the ₹100 credit",
          "to": "Starter plan: 40 req/min for chat with Sarvam-105B (60 for other default models), STT REST and TTS REST (bulbul:v3: 30 req/min); 20 concurrent STT WebSocket streams; bounded by the ₹100 credit"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "sarvam-ai",
          "name": "Sarvam AI",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "One-time signup credit shared across all APIs; card/phone requirement not stated on the docs. India-focused provider (pricing in INR), strong Indic-language models.",
          "to": "One-time signup credit shared across all APIs; credits never expire. Sarvam-M has been deprecated (use Sarvam-105B). Signup credits carry commercial production rights for generated Output. Card/phone requirement not stated in the docs. The docs list limits per plan but do not say explicitly that free-credit accounts are on Starter. India-focused provider (pricing in INR), strong Indic-language models."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "sarvam-ai",
          "name": "Sarvam AI",
          "field": "commercial_ok",
          "from": null,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "sarvam-ai",
          "name": "Sarvam AI",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": false,
          "to": null
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "scaleway",
          "name": "Scaleway Generative APIs",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Gemma, Llama, Mistral, Qwen",
          "to": "With a validated payment method: 300 RPM / 200k TPM per model; 600 RPM and higher TPM once identity is verified"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "scaleway",
          "name": "Scaleway Generative APIs",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "European provider (France). Free allowance is a one-time token bucket, not time-limited. The 1M free tokens need no card; adding a card + passing KYC unlocks the official rate limits.",
          "to": "European provider (France). Free allowance is a one-time token bucket, not time-limited. Official rate limits apply once a valid payment method is registered; identity verification raises them."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "siliconflow",
          "name": "SiliconFlow",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Several models permanently free (e.g. Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct and others) at $0 cost, plus a $1 welcome credit for paid models",
          "to": "China platform (siliconflow.cn): several models permanently free at ¥0 (e.g. Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct, tencent/Hunyuan-MT-7B, BAAI embeddings and rerankers). The international platform (siliconflow.com) lists no $0 LLMs and gives $1 in free credits instead"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "siliconflow",
          "name": "SiliconFlow",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Signup requires SMS phone verification. Full \"real-name authentication\" (needed for recharging/billing) requires a mainland China, Hong Kong/Macao, or Taiwan ID document — this may limit full access for users without one, though basic use of free models appears reachable with standard account verification",
          "to": "Free models live on the China platform and need real-name authentication to use all of them; accepted documents are a mainland ID card, HK/Macao or Taiwan travel permits, HK/Macao/Taiwan residence permits or a Chinese permanent-residence card for foreigners. Signup is by phone number; some virtual-carrier number ranges are blocked."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "smallest-ai",
          "name": "Smallest.ai (Waves)",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "$10 in free credits with full access — TTS, STT, speech-to-speech and voice cloning",
          "to": "$10 in free credits with full access on Pay As You Go — TTS (Lightning v3.1), STT (Pulse) and voice agents; speech-to-speech (Hydra) is beta/request-access"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "smallest-ai",
          "name": "Smallest.ai (Waves)",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Bounded by the $10 credit",
          "to": "Pay As You Go: 15 concurrent TTS streams, 100 TTS requests/min, 450M chars/month cap; 100 concurrent STT streams; 20 concurrent agent calls (bounded by the $10 credit)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "smallest-ai",
          "name": "Smallest.ai (Waves)",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "$10 signup credit with full access. Fast TTS plus voice cloning. Card and commercial terms not stated on the pricing page.",
          "to": "$10 starting credit on Pay As You Go. The models pricing page lists 15 concurrent TTS streams while the API reference still says 1 active TTS request per account — inconsistent. The models table shows Voice Cloning 'No' for Pay As You Go although the TTS card advertises instant cloning. Card and commercial terms not stated. /pricing now redirects to /pricing/agents."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "smallest-ai",
          "name": "Smallest.ai (Waves)",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": false,
          "to": null
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "speechify",
          "name": "Speechify API",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "50,000 characters/month TTS (hard cap) + 60 min/month voice agents",
          "to": "500K characters/month TTS (hard cap; pauses until next month), catalog voices, streaming and SSML"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "speechify",
          "name": "Speechify API",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "3 concurrent calls; hard cap pauses at the limit (no overages)",
          "to": "Free: 3 concurrent requests, 1 request/s sustained (burst 10); hard monthly cap, no top-ups"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "speechify",
          "name": "Speechify API",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Commercial use is allowed on the free tier. No credit card required. Hard monthly cap that pauses at the limit.",
          "to": "Commercial use is allowed on the free tier. No credit card required. Free cannot top up and pauses when the monthly balance runs out. Voice cloning is paid-plan only; voice agents are now an enterprise-only product (no free minutes)."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "speechmatics",
          "name": "Speechmatics",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "$100 one-time usage credit (no card) covering Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech",
          "to": "Free plan: $100 credit grant on signup (no payment card) for Speech-to-Text; Text-to-Speech lists the first 1 million characters free"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "speechmatics",
          "name": "Speechmatics",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "2 concurrent real-time STT sessions; 3 voice-agent conversations; 1 batch job/sec (bounded by the $100 credit)",
          "to": "Free: 2 concurrent real-time sessions; Batch API: 10 new jobs/s and 50 job-status requests/s (bounded by the $100 credit)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "speechmatics",
          "name": "Speechmatics",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "One-time $100 credit, no card required — replaced the previous 3,000 min/month + 1M chars recurring allowance on 2026-07-31. Add a card when you move to Pro. Commercial-use permission not explicitly stated.",
          "to": "One-time $100 credit grant, no card required; to go beyond it, add a card and move to Pro (pay-as-you-go). Accounts created before 1 August 2026 received a one-time $25 transition credit. No data logging for model training by default. Commercial-use permission not explicitly stated."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "tencent-hunyuan",
          "name": "Tencent Hunyuan",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "1,000,000 free tokens for Hunyuan text LLMs (hunyuan-a13b, turbos, translation & vision models), plus a separate 1,000,000-token allotment for hunyuan-embedding",
          "to": "One-time free package on first activation: 1,000,000 tokens shared across Hunyuan text/vision models (Hunyuan-a13b, Hunyuan-role-latest, Hunyuan-translation, Hunyuan-translation-lite, Tencent HY Vision 1.5 Instruct, Hunyuan-turbos-vision, Hunyuan-t1-vision, Hunyuan-turbos-vision-video), plus a separate 1,000,000 tokens for Hunyuan-embedding"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "tencent-hunyuan",
          "name": "Tencent Hunyuan",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Not published; bounded by the token package",
          "to": "ChatCompletions (Tencent Cloud API): default 5 concurrent requests per account; GetEmbedding: 5 requests/second; most other Hunyuan APIs 20 requests/second"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "tencent-hunyuan",
          "name": "Tencent Hunyuan",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Free resource package valid 1 year from activation; unused tokens expire. Tencent Cloud generally requires mainland-China real-name ID verification to activate — a practical barrier for non-China users. Hunyuan is gradually migrating to TokenHub (the legacy platform is no longer adding new models). Commercial-use terms not stated on the free-quota page.",
          "to": "Free resource package valid 1 year from activation; unused tokens expire, and it does not roll into pay-as-you-go automatically. Activation requires Tencent Cloud real-name verification (enterprise or personal) — a practical barrier for many non-China users. Tencent says Hunyuan is migrating to TokenHub: the legacy platform will add no new models and stops supporting new model-service purchases; the legacy ChatCompletions API is marked pre-offline with expected shutdown 2026-12-21 (the OpenAI-compatible endpoint is the documented alternative). Whether new activations still receive the free package after the migration is not stated. Commercial-use terms not stated on the free-quota page."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "twelve-labs",
          "name": "Twelve Labs (Marengo Embed)",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Free plan: the Marengo Embed API for all input types (video, audio, image, text) at no cost, plus ~600 min indexing",
          "to": "Free plan: the Marengo 3.5 Embed API (video, audio, image, text and document inputs) and the Pegasus Analyze API at no cost, plus 600 minutes (10 hours) of video indexing in total"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "typhoon",
          "name": "Typhoon (SCB 10X)",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "typhoon-asr-realtime: 100 reqs/minute (documented on the ASR page); LLM/OCR models: no published quotas (beta service)",
          "to": "typhoon-v2.5-30b-a3b-instruct: 5 requests/second, 200 requests/minute; typhoon-ocr: 2 requests/second, 20 requests/minute; typhoon-asr-realtime: 100 requests/minute"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "unreal-speech",
          "name": "Unreal Speech",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Tiered endpoints for different text lengths; specific caps not documented",
          "to": "No rate limit published in the current V8 API docs (legacy v7 docs listed 2 requests/second on Free). Per-request size: /stream up to 1,000 characters, /speech up to 3,000, /synthesisTasks up to 500,000"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "unstructured",
          "name": "Unstructured",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "15,000 pages/month, resets monthly — document parsing/OCR across 50+ file types (layout, tables, generative OCR enrichment)",
          "to": "10,000 free pages once per account — document parsing/OCR (layout, tables, generative OCR enrichment); then $0.015/page pay-as-you-go"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "unstructured",
          "name": "Unstructured",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "15,000 pages/month",
          "to": "No public request-rate or concurrency limits for the Transform API; one document per request, 50 MB per document; free allotment 10,000 pages in total"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "unstructured",
          "name": "Unstructured",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "No credit card required. Purpose-built to turn documents into clean, structured input for RAG/LLM pipelines. Commercial terms not stated on the pricing page.",
          "to": "No credit card required. The free pages are a one-time credit per account (not monthly); after 10,000 pages, processing requests fail until you upgrade to Pay-As-You-Go. Purpose-built to turn documents into clean, structured input for RAG/LLM pipelines. Commercial terms not stated on the pricing page."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "unstructured",
          "name": "Unstructured",
          "field": "free_type",
          "from": "renewing-quota",
          "to": "trial-credit"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "upstage",
          "name": "Upstage",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Solar Pro 4 is free for a limited time (promo); otherwise the API is paid prepaid (commitment tiers from $100/mo) — Solar LLM (chat + embeddings) plus Document Parse / OCR / information extraction; Studio agents include 10 free runs",
          "to": "$10 free credit on sign-up (per Upstage's Getting Started docs) for the API — Solar LLM (chat + embeddings) plus Document Parse / OCR / information extraction; Studio document agents include 10 free runs each"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "upstage",
          "name": "Upstage",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Document Parse billed $0.01/page (+$0.03 for extract); Tier 1 rate limits apply on prepaid tiers",
          "to": "Tier 0 (below the Explore commitment tier): Solar Pro 4 100 RPM / 250,000 TPM; Solar Mini 4 100 RPM / 50,000 TPM; Embeddings 100 RPM / 300,000 TPM; Document OCR 3 requests/second, 500 pages/minute"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "upstage",
          "name": "Upstage",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "The former $10 signup credit no longer appears on the pricing page (now prepaid commitment tiers from $100/mo). No card needed for the limited-time free model or the 10 free Studio runs; a separate institutional grant (up to 1 year of free Solar + Document Parse) exists for eligible organizations only.",
          "to": "The Solar Pro 4 free window (2026-08-05 to 2026-08-11) has ended; standard pricing is $0.30 input / $1.20 output per 1M tokens from 2026-10-11 (UTC), after a 70%-off phase that runs until 2026-10-10. Beyond the signup credit, API use is pay-per-use, with prepaid commitment tiers from $100/mo adding bonus credit and higher limits. Studio agent runs need no card. A separate institutional grant (up to 1 year of free Solar Pro + Document Parse) exists for eligible schools, hospitals and nonprofits only. Solar Pro 2/3 and Solar Mini are deprecated on 2026-10-30 (KST)."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "vercel-ai-gateway",
          "name": "Vercel AI Gateway",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Free tier is rate-limited per model (HTTP 429 on exceed), lower than paid; routes to many providers rather than hosting models itself",
          "to": "No numeric free-tier limit published: the free tier has a lower per-model limit than paid (HTTP 429 when exceeded); Vercel documents behavior, not numbers"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "vercel-ai-gateway",
          "name": "Vercel AI Gateway",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "The monthly $5 credit is stated in Vercel's own docs. Once you purchase credits, your account moves to the paid tier and the monthly free credit no longer applies. BYOK is not available on the free tier.",
          "to": "The monthly $5 credit is stated in Vercel's own docs. Once you purchase credits, your account moves to the paid tier and the monthly free credit no longer applies. BYOK is not available on the free tier. It routes requests to many providers rather than hosting models itself."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "voicegain",
          "name": "Voicegain",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Bounded by the $50 credit; pay-as-you-go afterward (4 concurrent requests or 4 hours of audio/hour)",
          "to": "Default for new accounts: 75 API requests/minute and 2,000/hour; 4 concurrent real-time ASR requests; OFF-LINE transcription up to 4 hours of audio per hour (queue of 10 jobs)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "voicegain",
          "name": "Voicegain",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "No credit card required to start — an explicit $50 developer credit. Commercial terms not stated on the pricing page. Native STT REST API.",
          "to": "No credit card required to start — an explicit $50 platform credit on signup; afterwards cloud STT is billed at $0.00020/second of audio (6-second minimum per request). Commercial terms not stated on the pricing page. Native STT REST API. The former /pricing URL now redirects to /developers."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "voyage-ai",
          "name": "Voyage AI",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "200M free tokens on current embedding models (voyage-4-large, voyage-4, voyage-4-lite, voyage-context-4, voyage-code-4) and on rerankers (rerank-2.5 family); voyage-multimodal-3.5 and voyage-multimodal-3 get 200M text tokens + 150B pixels — a large one-time complimentary allotment per model",
          "to": "200M free tokens per model on current embedding models (voyage-4-large, voyage-4, voyage-4-lite, voyage-context-4, voyage-code-4) and on the rerankers listed in the price table (rerank-3, rerank-3-lite); voyage-multimodal-3.5 and voyage-multimodal-3 get 200M text tokens + 150B pixels; legacy voyage-finance-2, voyage-law-2 and voyage-code-2 get 50M — a one-time complimentary allotment per account"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "voyage-ai",
          "name": "Voyage AI",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Standard per-model RPM/TPM limits apply; the free-token allotment is the practical ceiling",
          "to": "No numeric limit published for accounts without a payment method. With a payment method (Tier 1, free tokens still apply), per model: voyage-4 / voyage-code-4 8M TPM, 2,000 RPM; voyage-4-large / voyage-context-4 3M TPM, 2,000 RPM; voyage-4-lite 16M TPM, 2,000 RPM; voyage-multimodal-3.5 2M TPM, 2,000 RPM; rerank-2.5 2M TPM, 2,000 RPM; rerank-2.5-lite 4M TPM, 2,000 RPM. HTTP 429 on exceed"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "voyage-ai",
          "name": "Voyage AI",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "No numeric limit published for accounts without a payment method. With a payment method (Tier 1, free tokens still apply), per model: voyage-4 / voyage-code-4 8M TPM, 2,000 RPM; voyage-4-large / voyage-context-4 3M TPM, 2,000 RPM; voyage-4-lite 16M TPM, 2,000 RPM; voyage-multimodal-3.5 2M TPM, 2,000 RPM; rerank-2.5 2M TPM, 2,000 RPM; rerank-2.5-lite 4M TPM, 2,000 RPM. HTTP 429 on exceed",
          "to": "No numeric limit published for accounts without a payment method. With a payment method (Tier 1, free tokens still apply), per model: voyage-4 / voyage-code-4 8M TPM, 2,000 RPM; voyage-4-large / voyage-context-4 3M TPM, 2,000 RPM; voyage-4-lite 16M TPM, 2,000 RPM; voyage-multimodal-3.5 2M TPM, 2,000 RPM; rerank-3 / rerank-2.5 2M TPM, 2,000 RPM; rerank-3-lite / rerank-2.5-lite 4M TPM, 2,000 RPM. HTTP 429 on exceed"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "voyage-ai",
          "name": "Voyage AI",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "The allotment is a one-time complimentary balance per model, not a renewing monthly quota. No credit card required to claim. Owned by MongoDB — a first-party model provider, not a proxy.",
          "to": "The allotment is a one-time complimentary balance per model, not a renewing monthly quota. Free tokens do not apply to Batch API usage. Voyage's pricing page is internally inconsistent on rerankers: the prose still names the rerank-2.5/rerank-2 families as free, while the price table gives 200M free tokens to rerank-3 and rerank-3-lite and lists rerank-2.5 under older models with no free tokens. No credit card required to claim. Owned by MongoDB — a first-party model provider, not a proxy."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "wandb-inference",
          "name": "W&B Inference",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "$100/month of Serverless Inference credits on the Free plan (default spending cap; offer for a limited time)",
          "to": "Serverless Inference credits on the Free plan \"for a limited time\" (amount not published); Free accounts have a default spending cap of $100/month"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "wandb-inference",
          "name": "W&B Inference",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "No RPM/TPM published; default cap of $100/month on the Free tier; concurrency limits per project/user",
          "to": "No RPM/TPM published; per-project and per-user concurrency limits (HTTP 429 when exceeded); default spending cap $100/month on the Free tier"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "wandb-inference",
          "name": "W&B Inference",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Serverless Inference credits come with Free, Pro and Academic plans for a limited time; when credits run out, Free accounts must activate pay-as-you-go on the Billing tab or upgrade. OpenAI-compatible endpoint at api.inference.wandb.ai/v1 with any W&B API key.",
          "to": "W&B Inference is now documented as CoreWeave Forge Serverless Inference (docs.wandb.ai redirects to docs.coreweave.com). The $100/month figure is a default spending cap, not a stated free-credit amount. When credits run out, Free accounts must activate pay-as-you-go on the Billing tab or upgrade; CoreWeave requires prepayment for paid access. Available only from supported geographic locations. OpenAI-compatible endpoint at api.inference.wandb.ai/v1; API keys are created at forge.coreweave.com. The pricing page lists \"$5/mo free credit for a limited time\" only under Pro and \"Billed monthly\" under Free, so the Free amount is unclear."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "wandb-inference",
          "name": "W&B Inference",
          "field": "free_type",
          "from": "recurring-credit",
          "to": "trial-credit"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-10-08",
          "slug": "zai-glm",
          "name": "Z.ai (Zhipu AI / GLM)",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Terms of Use prohibit using the service to \"develop, train, or improve\" competing algorithms or models — otherwise general use, including commercial, isn't restricted",
          "to": "Terms of Use prohibit using Z.ai to \"develop, train, or enhance any algorithms, models, or technologies that directly or indirectly compete with us\" — otherwise general use, including commercial, isn't restricted"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "week": "2026-W33",
      "start": "2026-08-10",
      "end": "2026-08-16",
      "count": 59,
      "changes": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "ai21",
          "name": "AI21 Labs",
          "field": "openai_compatible",
          "from": null,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "cartesia",
          "name": "Cartesia",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "contextual-ai",
          "name": "Contextual AI",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "gladia",
          "name": "Gladia",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "gladia",
          "name": "Gladia",
          "field": "openai_compatible",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "jina-ai",
          "name": "Jina AI",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "10M free tokens (one-time) across all models — embeddings (v3/v4), rerankers, classifier; plus a keyless Reader (r.jina.ai) for basic use",
          "to": "10M free tokens (one-time) across all models — embeddings, rerankers, classifier; plus a keyless Reader (r.jina.ai) for basic use"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "mistral",
          "name": "Mistral (La Plateforme)",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Phone verification required to activate; free tier is opt-in for data training",
          "to": "Phone verification required to activate; no credit card required. Free tier is opt-in for data training."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "mistral",
          "name": "Mistral (La Plateforme)",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "mistral",
          "name": "Mistral (La Plateforme)",
          "field": "openai_compatible",
          "from": null,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "modal",
          "name": "Modal",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Corrected from a previously listed \"$5-30/month\" range; this is a recurring monthly credit, not a one-time trial. Modal is serverless compute you deploy models on, not a hosted model API",
          "to": "Corrected from a previously listed \"$5-30/month\" range; this is a recurring monthly credit, not a one-time trial. Modal is serverless compute you deploy models on, not a hosted model API The full $30/month credit requires adding a payment method (without one the free credit is $5/month)."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "modal",
          "name": "Modal",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "moondream",
          "name": "Moondream Cloud",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Recurring $5/month credit; card requirement not stated on the pricing page; commercial terms not specified. OpenAI-compatible endpoint.",
          "to": "Recurring $5/month credit, no credit card required (stated on the pricing page/blog). Commercial terms not specified. OpenAI-compatible endpoint."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "moondream",
          "name": "Moondream Cloud",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "nvidia-nim",
          "name": "NVIDIA NIM",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "nanonets",
          "name": "Nanonets",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "One-time signup credit, not renewing; no credit card required to start. Paid plans start at $100/month afterwards.",
          "to": "One-time signup credit, not renewing (credits never expire); no credit card required to start. Paid plans start at $100/month afterwards."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "poolside",
          "name": "Poolside",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Laguna XS 2.1 (33B) and Laguna S 2.1 (118B) are free in Preview via a self-serve developer API key",
          "to": "Laguna M.1 (225B) and Laguna XS.2 (33B, open-weights) are free for a limited time via a self-serve developer API key (also on OpenRouter)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "poolside",
          "name": "Poolside",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Coding-focused models. Free access is Preview-stage and may change at general availability. Self-serve: create a free API key at platform.poolside.ai. OpenRouter is offered only as an alternative route.",
          "to": "Coding-focused models. Poolside describes the free access as 'free for a limited time' (not perpetual) and it may change at general availability. Self-serve key at platform.poolside.ai; OpenRouter is an alternative route."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "poolside",
          "name": "Poolside",
          "field": "free_type",
          "from": "perpetual",
          "to": "trial-credit"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "poolside",
          "name": "Poolside",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "retell-ai",
          "name": "Retell AI",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "$10 signup credit with full platform access. A voice-agent builder (orchestration), not a raw model API. Card terms not stated on the pricing page.",
          "to": "$10 signup credit with full platform access. A voice-agent builder (orchestration), not a raw model API. Retell’s Stripe case study describes capturing a card at signup for automatic billing once the free credits are used (a third-party review claims otherwise — treat card as required)."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "retell-ai",
          "name": "Retell AI",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "rev-ai",
          "name": "Rev AI",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "One-time signup grant (does not renew). High-accuracy English ASR. Card and commercial terms not stated on the pricing page.",
          "to": "One-time signup grant (does not renew). High-accuracy English ASR. No credit card required (stated on the signup page). Commercial terms not stated."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "rev-ai",
          "name": "Rev AI",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "rime",
          "name": "Rime",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "One-time allotment on signup; card requirement and commercial-use terms for the free minutes are not stated on the pricing page.",
          "to": "One-time allotment on signup; no credit card required (stated on the pricing page). The pricing table shows ~800 free minutes (~800k characters) while the page’s own FAQ and the docs still say 3,000 — an internal inconsistency. Commercial-use terms not stated."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "rime",
          "name": "Rime",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "rime",
          "name": "Rime",
          "field": "openai_compatible",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "sarvam-ai",
          "name": "Sarvam AI",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "scaleway",
          "name": "Scaleway Generative APIs",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "European provider (France). Free allowance is a one-time token bucket, not time-limited",
          "to": "European provider (France). Free allowance is a one-time token bucket, not time-limited. The 1M free tokens need no card; adding a card + passing KYC unlocks the official rate limits."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "scaleway",
          "name": "Scaleway Generative APIs",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "siliconflow",
          "name": "SiliconFlow",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "smallest-ai",
          "name": "Smallest.ai (Waves)",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "speechify",
          "name": "Speechify API",
          "field": "openai_compatible",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "speechmatics",
          "name": "Speechmatics",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "3,000 minutes (50 hours)/month speech-to-text + 1,000,000 characters (~20 hrs)/month text-to-speech",
          "to": "$100 one-time usage credit (no card) covering Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "speechmatics",
          "name": "Speechmatics",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "2 concurrent real-time sessions on the free plan",
          "to": "2 concurrent real-time STT sessions; 3 voice-agent conversations; 1 batch job/sec (bounded by the $100 credit)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "speechmatics",
          "name": "Speechmatics",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "No credit card required to start; add a card only when you exceed the free limit. Recurring monthly allowance covering both STT and TTS. Commercial-use permission not explicitly stated on the pricing page.",
          "to": "One-time $100 credit, no card required — replaced the previous 3,000 min/month + 1M chars recurring allowance on 2026-07-31. Add a card when you move to Pro. Commercial-use permission not explicitly stated."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "speechmatics",
          "name": "Speechmatics",
          "field": "free_type",
          "from": "renewing-quota",
          "to": "trial-credit"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "tencent-hunyuan",
          "name": "Tencent Hunyuan",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Free resource package valid 1 year from activation; unused tokens expire. Tencent Cloud generally requires mainland-China real-name ID verification to activate — a practical barrier for non-China users. Commercial-use terms not stated on the free-quota page.",
          "to": "Free resource package valid 1 year from activation; unused tokens expire. Tencent Cloud generally requires mainland-China real-name ID verification to activate — a practical barrier for non-China users. Hunyuan is gradually migrating to TokenHub (the legacy platform is no longer adding new models). Commercial-use terms not stated on the free-quota page."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "tencent-hunyuan",
          "name": "Tencent Hunyuan",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "typhoon",
          "name": "Typhoon (SCB 10X)",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "No published quotas (beta service)",
          "to": "typhoon-asr-realtime: 100 reqs/minute (documented on the ASR page); LLM/OCR models: no published quotas (beta service)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "typhoon",
          "name": "Typhoon (SCB 10X)",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "By SCB 10X, the venture arm of Siam Commercial Bank, focused on Thai-language models. Beta, provided as-is with no formal support; usage data is collected to improve the model; SCB claims no rights in outputs. Sign up for an API key at opentyphoon.ai.",
          "to": "By SCB 10X, the venture arm of Siam Commercial Bank, focused on Thai-language models. The free catalog spans LLMs (typhoon-v2.5-30b-a3b-instruct), OCR (typhoon-ocr family) and realtime Thai ASR (typhoon-asr-realtime, typhoon-isan-asr-realtime) — the hosted API is OpenAI-compatible, including audio transcriptions. Beta, provided as-is with no formal support; usage data is collected to improve the model; SCB claims no rights in outputs. Sign up for a free API key at opentyphoon.ai."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "unreal-speech",
          "name": "Unreal Speech",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Commercial use allowed, but free-plan users must attribute Unreal Speech with a link when publishing audio. First-party REST endpoints. Card requirement not stated.",
          "to": "Commercial use allowed, but free-plan users must attribute Unreal Speech with a link when publishing audio. First-party REST endpoints. No credit card required."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "unreal-speech",
          "name": "Unreal Speech",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "upstage",
          "name": "Upstage",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "$10 in free credit on signup (no card) — Solar LLM (chat + embeddings) plus Document Parse / OCR / information extraction",
          "to": "Solar Pro 4 is free for a limited time (promo); otherwise the API is paid prepaid (commitment tiers from $100/mo) — Solar LLM (chat + embeddings) plus Document Parse / OCR / information extraction; Studio agents include 10 free runs"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "upstage",
          "name": "Upstage",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Document Parse billed $0.01/page (+$0.03 for extract), drawn from the $10 credit",
          "to": "Document Parse billed $0.01/page (+$0.03 for extract); Tier 1 rate limits apply on prepaid tiers"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "upstage",
          "name": "Upstage",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "No credit card required to receive the $10 credit; Studio agents also include 10 free runs. A separate institutional grant (up to 1 year of free Solar + Document Parse) exists for eligible organizations only. Credit validity period not stated.",
          "to": "The former $10 signup credit no longer appears on the pricing page (now prepaid commitment tiers from $100/mo). No card needed for the limited-time free model or the 10 free Studio runs; a separate institutional grant (up to 1 year of free Solar + Document Parse) exists for eligible organizations only."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "vercel-ai-gateway",
          "name": "Vercel AI Gateway",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Free tier with a monthly free credit covering a subset of models at lower rate limits",
          "to": "Free tier: $5/month credit covering a subset of models (Free Tier eligible models) at lower rate limits"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "vercel-ai-gateway",
          "name": "Vercel AI Gateway",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Free tier and its monthly-credit behaviour are confirmed in Vercel's own docs; the specific \"$5/month\" figure circulating in community posts is not stated there. Once you purchase credits, your account moves to the paid tier and the monthly free credit no longer applies.",
          "to": "The monthly $5 credit is stated in Vercel's own docs. Once you purchase credits, your account moves to the paid tier and the monthly free credit no longer applies. BYOK is not available on the free tier."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "voicegain",
          "name": "Voicegain",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Bounded by the $50 credit; pay-as-you-go afterward",
          "to": "Bounded by the $50 credit; pay-as-you-go afterward (4 concurrent requests or 4 hours of audio/hour)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "voyage-ai",
          "name": "Voyage AI",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "200M free tokens on current embedding models (voyage-4, voyage-4-lite, voyage-context-4, voyage-code-3) and on rerankers (rerank-2.5 family); voyage-multimodal-3.5 gets 200M text tokens + 150B pixels — a large one-time complimentary allotment per model",
          "to": "200M free tokens on current embedding models (voyage-4-large, voyage-4, voyage-4-lite, voyage-context-4, voyage-code-4) and on rerankers (rerank-2.5 family); voyage-multimodal-3.5 and voyage-multimodal-3 get 200M text tokens + 150B pixels — a large one-time complimentary allotment per model"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "zai-glm",
          "name": "Z.ai (Zhipu AI / GLM)",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-14",
          "slug": "lmnt",
          "name": "lmnt",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-13",
          "slug": "datalab",
          "name": "Datalab (Marker / Surya)",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "$5 in free credits for new accounts — OCR in 90+ languages, PDF-to-markdown, tables, forms and structured extraction",
          "to": "$20/month (work email) or $10/month (personal email) free usage allowance — OCR in 90+ languages, PDF-to-markdown, tables, forms and structured extraction"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-13",
          "slug": "datalab",
          "name": "Datalab (Marker / Surya)",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Per-page pricing and rate limits not published",
          "to": "10 requests/min on the free tier; per-page pricing (see datalab.to/pricing)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-13",
          "slug": "datalab",
          "name": "Datalab (Marker / Surya)",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "$5 signup credit. The hosted API wraps the well-regarded open-source Marker/Surya OCR engine. Card and commercial terms not stated on the docs.",
          "to": "Landing page still advertises a $5 signup credit, but the billing page describes the current free tier as a recurring monthly allowance ($20/mo work email, $10/mo personal, no card, 10 req/min) “designed to let you run a complete proof of concept before committing to a paid plan” — no explicit statement on commercial use of the hosted API. The self-hosted OSS weights carry a separate restriction (research/personal/startups under $2M ARR/funding)."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-13",
          "slug": "datalab",
          "name": "Datalab (Marker / Surya)",
          "field": "free_type",
          "from": "trial-credit",
          "to": "recurring-credit"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-13",
          "slug": "datalab",
          "name": "Datalab (Marker / Surya)",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-12",
          "slug": "clarifai",
          "name": "Clarifai",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Catch: SMS phone verification is required to claim the $5. Credit is one-time and expires 30 days after grant; a card is required to recharge afterward.",
          "to": "Catch: SMS phone verification is required to claim the $5. Credit is one-time and expires 30 days after grant; a card is required to recharge afterward. Checked ToS (clarifai.com/company/terms, effective 2025-10-01) and billing docs (docs.clarifai.com/control/account-billing/) for commercial/production-use language. No clause restricts the $5 trial credit / Pay-As-You-Go tier to evaluation-only. The 'evaluation purposes only, not for production' language in §7.3 applies specifically to Beta Releases, not this plan. No explicit statement either way, so left null per contribution guidelines."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-11",
          "slug": "novita",
          "name": "Novita AI",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Official signup advertises $100 Sandbox credits valid for 90 days; no credit card required",
          "to": "Official signup advertises $100 Sandbox credits valid for 90 days; no credit card required. Novita Terms of Service state that the Site and Marketplace Offerings may not be exploited for any commercial purpose without express prior written permission."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-11",
          "slug": "novita",
          "name": "Novita AI",
          "field": "commercial_ok",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "week": "2026-W32",
      "start": "2026-08-03",
      "end": "2026-08-09",
      "count": 9,
      "changes": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-05",
          "slug": "baseten",
          "name": "Baseten",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "$30 trial credit",
          "to": "New accounts receive free credits; Baseten's current pricing page does not state the amount"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-05",
          "slug": "baseten",
          "name": "Baseten",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Any supported model, compute-based pricing",
          "to": "Model APIs are priced per token; dedicated deployments are priced by compute time (per minute)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-05",
          "slug": "baseten",
          "name": "Baseten",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "No documented expiration date publicly",
          "to": "Basic is $0/month, pay as you go. Current pricing confirms new-account credits but does not publish an amount or expiration date"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-05",
          "slug": "fireworks-ai",
          "name": "Fireworks AI",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Default monthly spend cap of $50 for new accounts; no card needed to activate the $1 credit, card needed once it's spent",
          "to": "Fireworks uses prepaid credits. After the $1 credit is exhausted, add a payment method and credits (or enable auto top-up) to continue; account limits can rise with spend"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-05",
          "slug": "novita",
          "name": "Novita AI",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "$1 free credit on signup",
          "to": "$100 Sandbox credits, valid for 90 days"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-05",
          "slug": "novita",
          "name": "Novita AI",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Corrected from a previously listed \"$0.50/year\" figure, which does not appear on any official Novita domain; a separate referral program (\"Give $10, Earn $10\") also exists",
          "to": "Official signup advertises $100 Sandbox credits valid for 90 days; no credit card required"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-05",
          "slug": "novita",
          "name": "Novita AI",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-05",
          "slug": "ovhcloud-ai-endpoints",
          "name": "OVHcloud AI Endpoints",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Several open-weight models in the catalog (e.g. Qwen3Guard) listed as $0 per token, permanently, via two access modes: anonymous (no account) and authenticated (API key tied to a Public Cloud project)",
          "to": "Two Qwen3Guard models (Gen-8B and Gen-0.6B) are currently listed as Free in the catalog; access is available anonymously or with an API key tied to a Public Cloud project"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-05",
          "slug": "ovhcloud-ai-endpoints",
          "name": "OVHcloud AI Endpoints",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "European provider (France), relevant for EU data-sovereignty/GDPR-conscious use. The authenticated tier needs a valid payment method on the project (though \"Free\" models themselves don't charge); anonymous access needs neither an account nor a card. A separate general $200 Public Cloud trial voucher also exists but is unrelated to this permanent free-model tier",
          "to": "European provider (France), relevant for EU data-sovereignty/GDPR-conscious use. The authenticated tier needs a valid payment method on the project (though \"Free\" models themselves don't charge); anonymous access needs neither an account nor a card. A separate general $200 Public Cloud trial voucher also exists but is unrelated to this free-model tier"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "week": "2026-W31",
      "start": "2026-07-27",
      "end": "2026-08-02",
      "count": 40,
      "changes": [
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "slug": "cerebras",
          "name": "Cerebras",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Access to all Cerebras-hosted models",
          "to": "$5 in free credits for new accounts, usable across all public models"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "slug": "cerebras",
          "name": "Cerebras",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Officially published per-model: 5 RPM / 30,000 TPM / 1,000,000 TPH / 1,000,000 TPD (e.g. gpt-oss-120b, zai-glm-4.7, gemma-4-31b); limits vary by model",
          "to": "Published Free Trial per-model limits: 5 RPM / 30,000 TPM / 1,000,000 TPH / 1,000,000 TPD (e.g. gpt-oss-120b, zai-glm-4.7, gemma-4-31b); limits vary by model"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "slug": "cerebras",
          "name": "Cerebras",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Free tier includes community support (Discord) only; paid Developer tier gives \"10x higher\" rate limits",
          "to": "A verified payment method is required to activate Playground/API access (no charge until you buy credits). Credits expire 30 days after grant; whether any free access persists past expiry is not stated"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "slug": "cerebras",
          "name": "Cerebras",
          "field": "free_type",
          "from": "renewing-quota",
          "to": "trial-credit"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "slug": "cerebras",
          "name": "Cerebras",
          "field": "commercial_ok",
          "from": null,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "slug": "cerebras",
          "name": "Cerebras",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "slug": "cloudflare-workers-ai",
          "name": "Cloudflare Workers AI",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Resets daily at 00:00 UTC; overage on a Workers Paid plan bills at $0.011/1,000 Neurons",
          "to": "Resets daily at 00:00 UTC; overage on a Workers Paid plan bills at $0.011/1,000 Neurons. A few models (e.g. Kimi K2.6/K2.7-code, GLM-5.2) now require a Workers Paid plan"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "slug": "google-gemini",
          "name": "Google Gemini API (AI Studio)",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Varies by model, roughly 5-30 req/min and 20-500 req/day depending on model",
          "to": "Varies by model: 5-30 RPM and 15-1,000 RPD (e.g. 2.5 Pro: 5 RPM/100 RPD; 2.5 Flash: 10/250; 2.5 Flash-Lite: 15/1,000; embeddings: 100 RPD; TTS: 15 RPD)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "slug": "google-gemini",
          "name": "Google Gemini API (AI Studio)",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Free-tier prompts/outputs may be used by Google to improve its products when used outside the UK/CH/EEA/EU",
          "to": "Free-tier prompts/outputs may be used by Google to improve its products outside the UK/CH/EEA/EU. Since the 2026-03-23 terms, only Paid Services may serve API clients to end users in the EEA/CH/UK"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "slug": "groq",
          "name": "Groq",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "e.g. llama-3.1-8b-instant: 30 RPM/14.4K RPD/6K TPM/500K TPD; llama-3.3-70b-versatile: 30 RPM/1K RPD/12K TPM/100K TPD; qwen3-32b: 60 RPM/1K RPD/6K TPM/500K TPD; similar for GPT-OSS and Whisper models",
          "to": "e.g. llama-3.1-8b-instant: 30 RPM/14.4K RPD/6K TPM/500K TPD; llama-3.3-70b-versatile: 30 RPM/1K RPD/12K TPM/100K TPD; qwen/qwen3.6-27b: 30 RPM/1K RPD/8K TPM/200K TPD; similar for GPT-OSS and Whisper models"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "slug": "openrouter",
          "name": "OpenRouter",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "20+ models with a :free suffix, single API across many providers",
          "to": "A rotating set of models with a :free suffix (~14 today; count fluctuates), single API across many providers"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-08-02",
          "slug": "openrouter",
          "name": "OpenRouter",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "ToS (Apr 2026) prohibits resale or building a competing service on the free models; a private proxy for personal use is fine",
          "to": "ToS (Jul 2026) prohibits reselling API access or building a competing service — platform-wide, not just the free models; per-model terms still apply"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-31",
          "slug": "upstage",
          "name": "Upstage",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "Unconfirmed: current pricing page shows only 10 free document-agent runs (no card); no Solar LLM API trial credit is listed",
          "to": "$10 in free credit on signup (no card) — Solar LLM (chat + embeddings) plus Document Parse / OCR / information extraction"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-31",
          "slug": "upstage",
          "name": "Upstage",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Solar Pro / Solar Mini",
          "to": "Document Parse billed $0.01/page (+$0.03 for extract), drawn from the $10 credit"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-31",
          "slug": "upstage",
          "name": "Upstage",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "A previously-listed \"$10 / 3 months\" Solar API trial credit could not be found on the current official pricing page (re-checked 2026-07-30), which advertises only \"10 free runs\" for document agents. Flagged for correction or removal.",
          "to": "No credit card required to receive the $10 credit; Studio agents also include 10 free runs. A separate institutional grant (up to 1 year of free Solar + Document Parse) exists for eligible organizations only. Credit validity period not stated."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-31",
          "slug": "upstage",
          "name": "Upstage",
          "field": "commercial_ok",
          "from": null,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-31",
          "slug": "upstage",
          "name": "Upstage",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-31",
          "slug": "upstage",
          "name": "Upstage",
          "field": "openai_compatible",
          "from": null,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "alibaba-model-studio",
          "name": "Alibaba Cloud (Model Studio)",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "cohere",
          "name": "Cohere",
          "field": "openai_compatible",
          "from": null,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "huggingface",
          "name": "HuggingFace",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "ibm-watsonx",
          "name": "IBM watsonx.ai (Lite plan)",
          "field": "openai_compatible",
          "from": null,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "modal",
          "name": "Modal",
          "field": "openai_compatible",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "nlpcloud",
          "name": "NLP Cloud",
          "field": "commercial_ok",
          "from": null,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "nlpcloud",
          "name": "NLP Cloud",
          "field": "card_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "nlpcloud",
          "name": "NLP Cloud",
          "field": "openai_compatible",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "nebius",
          "name": "Nebius AI Studio",
          "field": "commercial_ok",
          "from": null,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "nebius",
          "name": "Nebius AI Studio",
          "field": "phone_required",
          "from": null,
          "to": false
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "sambanova",
          "name": "SambaNova Cloud",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "$5 trial credit, 3 months, plus a rate-limited free tier",
          "to": "Rate-limited free tier (applies when no payment method is linked) across all models"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "sambanova",
          "name": "SambaNova Cloud",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Confirmed models: DeepSeek, Llama-3.3-70B, Gemma-3-31B, gpt-oss-120b",
          "to": "Free Tier applies when no payment method is linked to the account; SambaCloud ToS grants a commercial license (no evaluation-only clause). The previously-listed \"$5 / 3 months\" trial could not be re-confirmed on official pages (2026-07-30)."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "sambanova",
          "name": "SambaNova Cloud",
          "field": "free_type",
          "from": "trial-credit",
          "to": "renewing-quota"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "sambanova",
          "name": "SambaNova Cloud",
          "field": "commercial_ok",
          "from": null,
          "to": true
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "upstage",
          "name": "Upstage",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "$10 trial credit, ~3 months",
          "to": "Unconfirmed: current pricing page shows only 10 free document-agent runs (no card); no Solar LLM API trial credit is listed"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "upstage",
          "name": "Upstage",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "$10 credit confirmed via the official pricing page; the \"3 months\" validity window could not be confirmed in accessible official sources (console is robots.txt-blocked) — flagged for re-verification",
          "to": "A previously-listed \"$10 / 3 months\" Solar API trial credit could not be found on the current official pricing page (re-checked 2026-07-30), which advertises only \"10 free runs\" for document agents. Flagged for correction or removal."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "vercel-ai-gateway",
          "name": "Vercel AI Gateway",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "$5/month allocation (unconfirmed)",
          "to": "Free tier with a monthly free credit covering a subset of models at lower rate limits"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "vercel-ai-gateway",
          "name": "Vercel AI Gateway",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "Routes to multiple supported providers rather than being a model host itself",
          "to": "Free tier is rate-limited per model (HTTP 429 on exceed), lower than paid; routes to many providers rather than hosting models itself"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "vercel-ai-gateway",
          "name": "Vercel AI Gateway",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "The \"$5/month\" figure doesn't appear in official reference docs, only in the community forum. Free tier confirmed but covers \"a subset of models\" with reduced limits; moving to a paid tier means \"the monthly free credit no longer applies\" — suggests a one-time benefit, not a recurring monthly one. Flagged for re-verification",
          "to": "Free tier and its monthly-credit behaviour are confirmed in Vercel's own docs; the specific \"$5/month\" figure circulating in community posts is not stated there. Once you purchase credits, your account moves to the paid tier and the monthly free credit no longer applies."
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "inference-net",
          "name": "inference-net",
          "field": "free_tier",
          "from": "$1 (up to $25 after completing a survey)",
          "to": "Free pay-as-you-go tier listed (1M gateway requests, 30 req/min); a model-inference credit is unconfirmed"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "inference-net",
          "name": "inference-net",
          "field": "rate_limits",
          "from": "30 req/min mentioned in the pricing table",
          "to": "30 req/min on the free tier (per the current pricing page)"
        },
        {
          "date": "2026-07-30",
          "slug": "inference-net",
          "name": "inference-net",
          "field": "notes",
          "from": "Could not verify the \"$1, up to $25 after a survey\" credit mechanism against docs.inference.net, pricing, or registration pages. A separate \"Grants Program\" exists (up to $10,000 in compute for open-source projects) but is a different offer — flagged for re-verification",
          "to": "The current pricing page (re-checked 2026-07-30) shows a free tier with 1M gateway requests and 30 req/min, but no confirmable \"$1, up to $25 after a survey\" inference credit. A separate open-source Grants Program (up to $10,000 in compute) exists but is a different offer — flagged for re-verification."
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}