What's free
25,000 conversions/month (Engine 1 & 2) plus 1,000 Engine 3 conversions/month; max 1 MB file, PDFs up to 3 pages
- Credit card
- not required
- Phone verification
- not required
- Commercial use
- allowed
Free limits
| requests per day | 500 |
|---|
free OCR API key, per IP address. Source: the provider's page, read 2026-10-09.
In the provider's words
500 requests per day per IP address
The catch
Free searchable-PDF output carries a watermark (raw text extraction is unrestricted); the free key needs only an email, no card. Commercial use permitted.
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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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
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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 free tier
- 2026-07-30 Added to the hub