What's free
$20/month (work email) or $10/month (personal email) free usage allowance — OCR in 90+ languages, PDF-to-markdown, tables, forms and structured extraction
- Credit card
- not required
- Phone verification
- not required
- Commercial use
- not confirmed
Free limits
| requests per minute | 10 |
|---|
free tier; 5 concurrent requests. Source: the provider's page, read 2026-10-09.
In the provider's words
10 requests/min and 5 concurrent requests on the free tier; per-page pricing (see datalab.to/pricing)
The catch
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.
Free models: not listed yet.
Get started
This is a first-party API, not OpenAI-compatible, so there is no drop-in base URL. The endpoint, the key and a working example are in the official docs.
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Change history
How this free tier has changed since we started tracking it (2026-07-31) — generated from the git history of providers.json.
- 2026-10-09 Updated rate limits
- 2026-10-08 Updated rate limits, the catch, phone requirement
- 2026-08-13 Updated free tier, rate limits, the catch, free type, card requirement
- 2026-07-31 Added to the hub