State of free LLM APIs — July 2026

Computed from the last revision of providers.json committed in July 2026 (2026-07-31) and the git-mined change history. Ages are measured as of 2026-07-31.

68
providers
100%
verified
1d
median verification age
28
field changes this month

Providers by category

CategoryProviders
Ongoing free tier38
Trial credit30
Total68

Providers by modality

A provider counts once for every modality it offers free.

ModalityProviders
text44
vision9
image10
audio25
embeddings13
rerank6
ocr8

Verification and freshness

MeasureValue
Verified68 of 68 (100%)
Verified with a date68
Oldest verification, as of 2026-07-3120d
Median verification age, as of 2026-07-311d

Field changes in July 2026

28 field changes across 11 providers.

ProviderFields changed
Alibaba Cloud (Model Studio)card requirement
CohereOpenAI compatibility
HuggingFacecard requirement
IBM watsonx.ai (Lite plan)OpenAI compatibility
ModalOpenAI compatibility
NLP Cloudcommercial-use terms, card requirement, OpenAI compatibility
Nebius AI Studiocommercial-use terms, phone requirement
SambaNova Cloudfree tier, the catch, free type, commercial-use terms
Upstagefree tier, the catch, rate limits, commercial-use terms, card requirement, OpenAI compatibility
Vercel AI Gatewayfree tier, rate limits, the catch
inference-netfree tier, rate limits, the catch

Providers added in July 2026

ProviderAdded
Camb.ai2026-07-31
Cartesia2026-07-31
Contextual AI2026-07-31
Datalab (Marker / Surya)2026-07-31
Fish Audio2026-07-31
LMNT2026-07-31
Nutrient (Data Extraction API)2026-07-31
Photoroom2026-07-31
Poolside2026-07-31
Retell AI2026-07-31
Rev AI2026-07-31
Smallest.ai (Waves)2026-07-31
Unstructured2026-07-31
Upstage2026-07-31
Veryfi2026-07-31
Voicegain2026-07-31
Voyage AI2026-07-31