What's free
Starter plan: $5 one-time credit (no card) — embeddings (mxbai-embed-large-v1), reranking, and multimodal search over PDF/image/doc/code
Rate limits
Starter plan: 100 requests/min
The catch
Free credit is usage-based and non-renewing; usage-based pricing applies afterward. Native REST API, not documented as OpenAI-compatible. No card required.
Appears in
Free LLM APIs with no credit cardFree LLM APIs with no phone verificationFree LLM APIs for commercial useFree multimodal LLM APIsEmbeddings / RAGImage generation
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