What's free
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
The catch
Credit-based (1,000 credits = $1.25); premium parse modes consume more credits per page. No card required. Document parsing for RAG (LlamaIndex).
Quickstart
First-party API — not OpenAI-compatible, so there is no drop-in base URL. The exact endpoint is in the official docs; authenticate with your API key in the Authorization: Bearer header.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
https://<api-base-url>/<endpoint>…or in Python:
import os, requests
r = requests.post(
"https:///",
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['API_KEY']}"},
json={},
)
print(r.json()) Appears in
Free LLM APIs with no credit cardFree LLM APIs with no phone verificationFree LLM APIs for commercial useFree multimodal LLM APIsNo credit cardNo card, no phoneOCR / document AI
Change history
How this free tier has changed since we started tracking it (2026-07-30) — generated from the git history of providers.json.
- 2026-07-30 Added to the hub