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ModelScope (API-Inference)

Ongoing verified 2026-10-08 · 2d ago no cardeval onlyOpenAI-compatible

Free daily calls to many open models (Alibaba Cloud real-name verification required)

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What's free

Free API-Inference calls paid with daily 'Magicubes': 200/day for signing in + 50/day after linking an Alibaba Cloud account (do not roll over); calls cost ~0.5 / 1 / 2 Magicubes for lightweight / standard / flagship models

Credit card
not required
Phone verification
not confirmed
Commercial use
evaluation only

Free limits

Numeric limits are not recorded in structured form for this provider.

In the provider's words

Bounded by the daily Magicubes: ~250/day from signing in and linking an Alibaba Cloud account, plus any earned by other actions (~125-500 calls depending on model tier); concurrency dynamically limited, single concurrency guaranteed

The catch

Alibaba's model hub — a different product from Alibaba Model Studio. Requires a ModelScope account bound to an Alibaba Cloud account with real-name (ID) verification — a practical barrier for non-China users. Explicitly non-commercial ("for developers to experience"). No card.

PlanOngoing free tier
How it renewsFree quota that renews
Expiresno expiry
Modalitiestext, vision
OpenAI base URLhttps://api-inference.modelscope.cn/v1

Free models · sample

MedAIBase/AntAngelMedMiniMax/MiniMax-M1-80kMusePublic/Qwen-Image-EditOpenGVLab/InternVL3_5-241B-A28BPaddlePaddle/ERNIE-4.5-0.3B-PTQwen/Qwen-Image-EditShanghai_AI_Laboratory/Intern-S1Tencent-Hunyuan/Hy3

A sample of models reachable on the free tier — the live catalog changes. Pull the current set with GET https://api-inference.modelscope.cn/v1/models.

Quickstart — chat completions

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api-inference.modelscope.cn/v1", api_key="<YOUR_FREE_API_KEY>")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="MedAIBase/AntAngelMed",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

…or with curl:

curl https://api-inference.modelscope.cn/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"MedAIBase/AntAngelMed","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'

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How this free tier has changed since we started tracking it (2026-07-30) — generated from the git history of providers.json.

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