What's free
1,000,000 tokens free + 60 min Whisper transcription; billing starts at token 1,000,001
- Credit card
- not required
- Phone verification
- not confirmed
- Commercial use
- not confirmed
Free limits
Numeric limits are not recorded in structured form for this provider.
In the provider's words
With a validated payment method: 300 RPM / 200k TPM per model; 600 RPM and higher TPM once identity is verified
The catch
European provider (France). Free allowance is a one-time token bucket, not time-limited. Official rate limits apply once a valid payment method is registered; identity verification raises them.
Free models · sample
llama-3.3-70b-instructqwen3-235b-a22b-instruct-2507mistral-small-3.2-24b-instruct-2506gpt-oss-120bgemma-4-26b-a4b-itqwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instructA sample of models reachable on the free tier — the live catalog changes. Pull the current set with GET https://api.scaleway.ai/v1/models.
Quickstart — chat completions
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.scaleway.ai/v1", api_key="<YOUR_FREE_API_KEY>")
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="llama-3.3-70b-instruct",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)…or with curl:
curl https://api.scaleway.ai/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"llama-3.3-70b-instruct","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'Appears in
Free LLM APIs with no credit cardOpenAI-compatible free LLM APIsFree multimodal LLM APIsOpenAI-compatibleSpeech (STT/TTS)
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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 rate limits, the catch
- 2026-08-14 Updated the catch, card requirement
- 2026-07-30 Added to the hub