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The best free LLM APIs right now

Our editorial top 10 — hand-picked from the 69 verified providers, ranked for real-world usefulness.

This is the editorial ranking: not an automatic filter, but the ten free tiers we would actually reach for first. Each pick links to its full verified profile — free tier, rate limits and the catch are all checked against the provider's own docs on the linked page. The list is reviewed and re-verified with the dataset.

  1. Typhoon (SCB 10X)

    Editor's pick

    The rare package that is genuinely free forever (perpetual, not a trial) with a frontier-class model, OCR and real-time speech behind one no-card OpenAI-compatible key.

    verified 2026-08-14 · Thai-language LLMs, OCR and speech via an OpenAI-compatible research API

  2. Cloudflare Workers AI

    Best free quota

    The best free daily volume for a real side project — 10k requests a day with no card, and the quota renews.

    verified 2026-08-02 · Highest free daily volume for a real side project

  3. Google Gemini API (AI Studio)

    Frontier quality

    The only frontier-class model with a genuine, renewing free tier — the default when you want the smartest free model.

    verified 2026-08-02 · The only frontier-class model with a genuine free tier

  4. Ollama Cloud

    Best on-ramp

    Cloud-hosted open models with the exact Ollama workflow and no card at signup — the easiest on-ramp for open-weight models.

    verified 2026-08-14 · Cloud-hosted open models with the Ollama workflow, no card

  5. OpenRouter

    Best gateway

    One no-card key, every model: a wide rotating sample of :free models behind a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

    verified 2026-08-02 · Widest model selection behind one no-card key

  6. AI Horde

    No account needed

    Anonymous, no-signup and permanently free — the fallback that works when everything else asks for an account.

    verified 2026-08-14 · Anonymous, no-signup free generation (variable speed)

  7. LlamaParse (LlamaCloud)

    Best for RAG

    The most generous free document-parsing tier for RAG builders (~10k pages a month), renewing every month.

    verified 2026-07-30 · Free document parsing for RAG (~10k pages/mo)

  8. OCR.space

    Reliable utility

    Classic, reliable free OCR at 25k conversions a month with no card — the boring tool that just works.

    verified 2026-07-30 · Classic free OCR (25k conversions/mo, no card)

  9. Speechify API

    Best for TTS

    Free commercial TTS at 50k characters a month — the pick when the output actually ships.

    verified 2026-07-30 · Free commercial TTS (50k chars/mo)

  10. Jina AI

    Best for embeddings

    Free embeddings and rerank behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint — the shortest path to a free RAG stack.

    verified 2026-08-14 · Free embeddings & rerank behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint

Editorial ranking, reviewed 2026-08-14 — every pick links to its full verified profile. Want to nominate a provider? See the repo.