What's free
₹100 in free credits on signup, usable across any API including chat completion (Sarvam-105B) and speech (STT/TTS); credits never expire
- Credit card
- not confirmed
- Phone verification
- not confirmed
- Commercial use
- allowed
Free limits
Numeric limits are not recorded in structured form for this provider.
In the provider's words
Starter plan: 40 req/min for chat with Sarvam-105B (60 for other default models), STT REST and TTS REST (bulbul:v3: 30 req/min); 20 concurrent STT WebSocket streams; bounded by the ₹100 credit
The catch
One-time signup credit shared across all APIs; credits never expire. Sarvam-M has been deprecated (use Sarvam-105B). Signup credits carry commercial production rights for generated Output. Card/phone requirement not stated in the docs. The docs list limits per plan but do not say explicitly that free-credit accounts are on Starter. India-focused provider (pricing in INR), strong Indic-language models.
Free models: not listed yet.
Quickstart — chat completions
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.sarvam.ai/v1", api_key="<YOUR_FREE_API_KEY>")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="<a-free-model>",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)…or with curl:
curl https://api.sarvam.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"<a-free-model>","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'Appears in
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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, rate limits, the catch, commercial-use terms, card requirement
- 2026-08-14 Updated card requirement
- 2026-07-30 Added to the hub