What's free
Typically 1,000,000 tokens per model for new users, Singapore region (International deployment scope) only
- Credit card
- not required
- Phone verification
- not confirmed
- Commercial use
- not confirmed
Free limits
Numeric limits are not recorded in structured form for this provider.
In the provider's words
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
The catch
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.
Free models: not listed yet.
Quickstart — chat completions
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1", api_key="<YOUR_FREE_API_KEY>")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="<a-free-model>",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)…or with curl:
curl https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"<a-free-model>","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'Appears in
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Change history
How this free tier has changed since we started tracking it (2026-07-30) — generated from the git history of providers.json.
- 2026-10-08 Updated rate limits
- 2026-10-08 Updated free tier, the catch
- 2026-07-30 Updated card requirement
- 2026-07-30 Added to the hub