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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", "best_for": "Permanently-free open models, no trial clock", "modalities": [ "text", "embeddings" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://docs.siliconflow.cn/en/userguide/rate-limits/rate-limit-and-upgradation", "phone_required": true, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://api.siliconflow.com/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "zai-glm", "name": "Z.ai (Zhipu AI / GLM)", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "perpetual", "free_tier": "GLM-4.5-Flash, GLM-4.7-Flash (text), and GLM-4.6V-Flash (vision) are officially listed as $0 cost (input, cached input, and output) on a permanent basis", "rate_limits": "Not specified with concrete RPM/TPM figures in public docs", "notes": "Terms of Use prohibit using the service to \"develop, train, or improve\" competing algorithms or models — otherwise general use, including commercial, isn't restricted", "best_for": "A permanently-free model with no trial clock", "modalities": [ "text", "vision" ], "models_free": [ "glm-4.7-flash", "glm-4.5-flash", "glm-4.6v-flash" ], "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing", "phone_required": false, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://api.z.ai/api/paas/v4/", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "ibm-watsonx", "name": "IBM watsonx.ai (Lite plan)", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "Lite plan: 300,000 tokens/month for foundation model inference, 20 CUH/month for ML tooling, 100 pages/month of document text extraction", "rate_limits": "2 inference requests per second (explicitly documented for the Lite plan)", "notes": "Lite plan doesn't support fine-tuning of foundation or custom models; 1-day idle deployment timeout. Never expires or bills while inside quota, but a payment method (with a nominal ~$1 authorization hold) is required at signup", "best_for": "Governed enterprise inference with a monthly free quota", "modalities": [ "text" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/watsonx/saas?topic=cloud-watsonxai-runtime-plans", "phone_required": null, "card_required": true, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-11" }, { "slug": "ovhcloud-ai-endpoints", "name": "OVHcloud AI Endpoints", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "perpetual", "free_tier": "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)", "rate_limits": "Anonymous access: 2 requests/min per IP per model. Authenticated (API key): 400 requests/min per project per model. Exceeding either returns HTTP 429", "notes": "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", "best_for": "EU-hosted, no-account access to open models", "modalities": [ "text" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/ai-endpoints/catalog/", "phone_required": null, "card_required": true, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://oai.endpoints.kepler.ai.cloud.ovh.net/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-11" }, { "slug": "sambanova", "name": "SambaNova Cloud", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "Rate-limited free tier (applies when no payment method is linked) across all models", "rate_limits": "Free Tier: 20 RPM / 20 RPD / 200,000 TPD across all models; Developer Tier (card required): 60-240 RPM depending on model", "notes": "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).", "best_for": "Fast open models on a rate-limited free tier", "modalities": [ "text" ], "models_free": [ "DeepSeek-V3.1", "Meta-Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct", "gpt-oss-120b" ], "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://cloud.sambanova.ai/plans", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://api.sambanova.ai/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "arli-ai", "name": "Arli AI", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "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", "rate_limits": "1 request at a time; ~5 requests per 2 days across all models; max 12K context; delayed responses", "notes": "Free tier is for testing only — very restrictive. Provider advertises zero-log / no data retention. Card requirement for the free tier is not stated on the pricing page.", "best_for": "A permanently-free (heavily rate-limited) test tier", "modalities": [ "text" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.arliai.com/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://api.arliai.com/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "ollama-cloud", "name": "Ollama Cloud", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "$0 Free plan: access to cloud-hosted open models (Qwen, GPT-OSS, DeepSeek, etc.) via API", "rate_limits": "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)", "notes": "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.", "best_for": "Cloud-hosted open models with the Ollama workflow, no card", "modalities": [ "text", "vision" ], "models_free": [ "deepseek-v4-flash", "deepseek-v4-pro", "gemma4:31b", "glm-5.1", "glm-5.2", "gpt-oss:120b", "gpt-oss:20b", "kimi-k2.5" ], "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://docs.ollama.com/cloud", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://ollama.com/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "ai-horde", "name": "AI Horde", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "perpetual", "free_tier": "Free crowdsourced text & image generation; anonymous API key '0000000000' (no registration), or register to earn kudos for priority", "rate_limits": "Queue-based priority via kudos (no fixed quota); anonymous requests get lowest priority under load", "notes": "Community-powered volunteer network — model availability and speed vary with worker supply, so it is not a fixed-SLA service. No card, no phone. Kudos never expire and cannot be sold.", "best_for": "Anonymous, no-signup free generation (variable speed)", "modalities": [ "text", "image" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://aihorde.net/", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "modelscope", "name": "ModelScope (API-Inference)", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "~2,000 free API calls/day across open-weight models (Qwen3, DeepSeek, GLM, Llama, etc.) via API-Inference", "rate_limits": "~2,000 calls/day; concurrency/QPS caps applied and dynamically adjusted", "notes": "Alibaba's model hub — a different product from Alibaba Model Studio. Requires a ModelScope account bound to an Alibaba Cloud account with real-name (ID) verification — a practical barrier for non-China users. Explicitly non-commercial (\"for developers to experience\"). No card.", "best_for": "Free daily calls to many open models (real-name verification required)", "modalities": [ "text", "vision" ], "models_free": [ "LLM-Research/Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct", "MedAIBase/AntAngelMed", "MiniMax/MiniMax-M1-80k", "MusePublic/Qwen-Image-Edit", "OpenGVLab/InternVL3_5-241B-A28B", "PaddlePaddle/ERNIE-4.5-0.3B-PT", "Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit", "Shanghai_AI_Laboratory/Intern-S1" ], "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.modelscope.cn/docs/model-service/API-Inference/intro", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": false, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://api-inference.modelscope.cn/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "pollinations", "name": "Pollinations.ai", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "perpetual", "free_tier": "Free hosted image models (Flux, Turbo, Stable Diffusion) via a simple GET URL; also text and audio. No signup required to start", "rate_limits": "Anonymous ~1 request / 15s; free registration (Seed tier) ~1 request / 5s", "notes": "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.", "best_for": "No-signup free image generation (Flux/SD)", "modalities": [ "image", "text", "audio" ], "models_free": [ "openai-fast" ], "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://github.com/pollinations/pollinations/blob/master/APIDOCS.md", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "pinecone-inference", "name": "Pinecone Inference", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "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", "rate_limits": "5M embedding tokens/mo; 500 rerank requests/mo on Starter", "notes": "Free rerank limited to bge-reranker-v2-m3; overages are pay-as-you-go. Not OpenAI-compatible. No card required.", "best_for": "Free embeddings + rerank for RAG (5M tokens/mo)", "modalities": [ "embeddings", "rerank" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.pinecone.io/pricing/", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "twelve-labs", "name": "Twelve Labs (Marengo Embed)", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "Free plan: the Marengo Embed API for all input types (video, audio, image, text) at no cost, plus ~600 min indexing", "rate_limits": "Embed video/audio: 3,000 RPD, 25 RPM; embed text/image: 3,000 RPD, 600 RPM", "notes": "No credit card for the Free plan, but indexed data expires after 90 days unless upgraded. Marengo produces multimodal embeddings. Not OpenAI-compatible.", "best_for": "Free multimodal (video/audio/image/text) embeddings", "modalities": [ "embeddings", "vision", "audio", "text" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.twelvelabs.io/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "ocr-space", "name": "OCR.space", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "25,000 conversions/month (Engine 1 & 2) plus 2,500 Engine 3 conversions/month; max 1 MB file, PDFs up to 3 pages", "rate_limits": "500 requests per day per IP address", "notes": "Free searchable-PDF output carries a watermark (raw text extraction is unrestricted); the free key needs only an email, no card. Commercial use permitted.", "best_for": "Classic free OCR (25k conversions/mo, no card)", "modalities": [ "ocr", "text" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://ocr.space/OCRAPI", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "llamaparse", "name": "LlamaParse (LlamaCloud)", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "Free plan: 10,000 credits/month (~10,000 pages in balanced parse mode at 1 credit/page)", "rate_limits": "5 concurrent jobs; 1 project; 5 indexes on the free plan", "notes": "Credit-based (1,000 credits = $1.25); premium parse modes consume more credits per page. No card required. Document parsing for RAG (LlamaIndex).", "best_for": "Free document parsing for RAG (~10k pages/mo)", "modalities": [ "ocr", "text" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "moondream", "name": "Moondream Cloud", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "recurring-credit", "free_tier": "$5/month usage credits in every workspace (Free plan) for the Moondream vision model — caption, query (VQA), detect, point", "rate_limits": "Bounded by the $5/month credit", "notes": "Recurring $5/month credit; card requirement not stated on the pricing page; commercial terms not specified. OpenAI-compatible endpoint.", "best_for": "Tiny vision model, OpenAI-compatible, monthly free credit", "modalities": [ "vision" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://moondream.ai/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://api.moondream.ai/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "speechmatics", "name": "Speechmatics", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "3,000 minutes (50 hours)/month speech-to-text + 1,000,000 characters (~20 hrs)/month text-to-speech", "rate_limits": "2 concurrent real-time sessions on the free plan", "notes": "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.", "best_for": "Best free STT tier (50 hrs/mo, no card)", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.speechmatics.com/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "speechify", "name": "Speechify API", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "50,000 characters/month TTS (hard cap) + 60 min/month voice agents", "rate_limits": "3 concurrent calls; hard cap pauses at the limit (no overages)", "notes": "Commercial use is allowed on the free tier. No credit card required. Hard monthly cap that pauses at the limit.", "best_for": "Free commercial TTS (50k chars/mo)", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://speechify.ai/pricing", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": null, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "hume-ai", "name": "Hume AI (Octave TTS)", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "10,000 characters/month TTS (~10 minutes) on the Free plan", "rate_limits": "15 requests per minute", "notes": "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.", "best_for": "Expressive TTS with a commercial free tier", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.hume.ai/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "unreal-speech", "name": "Unreal Speech", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "250,000 characters/month TTS (~6 hours of audio)", "rate_limits": "Tiered endpoints for different text lengths; specific caps not documented", "notes": "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.", "best_for": "Largest free TTS (250k chars/mo, attribution)", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://unrealspeech.com/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "elevenlabs", "name": "ElevenLabs", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "10,000 credits/month shared across Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text and more (~10 min TTS/month)", "rate_limits": "Concurrency tied to the Free plan (not numerically published)", "notes": "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.", "best_for": "Best-known TTS voices (free tier is non-commercial)", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://elevenlabs.io/pricing", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": false, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "cartesia", "name": "Cartesia", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "20,000 credits/month (~27 min of Sonic TTS or ~1h51 of Ink speech-to-text)", "rate_limits": "2 concurrent TTS requests, 8 concurrent STT; 20,000 credits/month", "notes": "Commercial use is NOT allowed on the free plan (the $5/mo Pro plan adds a commercial licence). Low-latency streaming voice over WebSocket/REST; own API (not OpenAI-shaped).", "best_for": "Low-latency streaming TTS + STT on a renewing monthly free quota", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://cartesia.ai/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": false, "openai_compatible": false, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-31", "added": "2026-07-31" }, { "slug": "lmnt", "name": "LMNT", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "15,000 characters/month of TTS, with unlimited voice clones", "rate_limits": "15,000 characters/month", "notes": "Commercial use is not included on the free tier (the paid Indie plan and above add a commercial licence). Real-time streaming speech API.", "best_for": "Free real-time TTS with unlimited voice cloning", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.lmnt.com/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": false, "openai_compatible": false, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-31", "added": "2026-07-31" }, { "slug": "fish-audio", "name": "Fish Audio", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "8,000 credits/month (~7 min of generation, up to 500 characters per generation); TTS, STT and voice cloning", "rate_limits": "500 characters per generation; 8,000 credits/month", "notes": "Free plan is personal, non-commercial only (commercial use requires a Premium subscription). No credit card required to sign up.", "best_for": "Free multilingual TTS with voice cloning for personal projects", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://fish.audio/plan/", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": false, "openai_compatible": false, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-31", "added": "2026-07-31" }, { "slug": "camb-ai", "name": "Camb.ai", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "2,000 credits/month covering ~25K characters of MARS TTS, 125 min of STT, plus limited watermarked dubbing and translation (incl. 5 OCR pages)", "rate_limits": "500 chars/generation TTS, 15 min/generation STT; 2,000 credits/month", "notes": "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.", "best_for": "Expressive multilingual TTS, STT and dubbing on one free quota", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.camb.ai/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": false, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-31", "added": "2026-07-31" }, { "slug": "unstructured", "name": "Unstructured", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "15,000 pages/month, resets monthly — document parsing/OCR across 50+ file types (layout, tables, generative OCR enrichment)", "rate_limits": "15,000 pages/month", "notes": "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.", "best_for": "Turning messy documents into LLM-ready structured data, free every month", "modalities": [ "ocr" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://unstructured.io/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": false, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-31", "added": "2026-07-31" }, { "slug": "nutrient", "name": "Nutrient (Data Extraction API)", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "5,000 credits/month (renews; no rollover) — ~5,000 text-parse pages, fewer for OCR-heavy 'Understand'/'Agentic' parsing (9-18 credits/page)", "rate_limits": "5,000 credits/month; per-page cost varies by parse mode (1-18 credits)", "notes": "No credit card required. Formerly PSPDFKit. Extraction/OCR with tables, key-value and handwriting. Commercial terms not stated on the pricing page.", "best_for": "Document data extraction with a genuinely renewing free monthly quota", "modalities": [ "ocr" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.nutrient.io/api/pricing/", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": false, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-31", "added": "2026-07-31" }, { "slug": "photoroom", "name": "Photoroom", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "10 free production calls on the Remove Background API (one-time) plus 1,000 sandbox calls/month on the Image Editing API (watermarked)", "rate_limits": "1,000 sandbox calls/month; 10 one-time production calls", "notes": "No credit card required. Sandbox output is watermarked (for testing); the 10 production calls return clean output. Image editing/generation (AI backgrounds, relighting, shadows).", "best_for": "Programmatic background removal and AI image editing to prototype free", "modalities": [ "image" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.photoroom.com/api/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": false, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-31", "added": "2026-07-31" }, { "slug": "poolside", "name": "Poolside", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "perpetual", "free_tier": "Laguna XS 2.1 (33B) and Laguna S 2.1 (118B) are free in Preview via a self-serve developer API key", "rate_limits": "Preview rate limits not published", "notes": "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.", "best_for": "Free coding-focused LLMs behind an OpenAI-compatible key", "modalities": [ "text" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://docs.poolside.ai/api/overview", "phone_required": null, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://inference.poolside.ai/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-31", "added": "2026-07-31" }, { "slug": "veryfi", "name": "Veryfi", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "Free Forever plan: up to 100 documents/month — OCR plus structured data extraction (receipts, invoices, and 100+ document types)", "rate_limits": "100 documents/month on the free plan", "notes": "No credit card required. The 'Free Forever' 100 docs/mo tier is the standing free tier (a separate 14-day trial unlocks paid features). Proprietary OCR / document-intelligence REST API.", "best_for": "Free-forever document OCR (100 docs/mo, no card)", "modalities": [ "ocr" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.veryfi.com/pricing/", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": false, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-31", "added": "2026-07-31" } ] }