State of free LLM APIs — August 2026

Computed from the last revision of providers.json committed in August 2026 (2026-08-14) and the git-mined change history. Ages are measured as of 2026-08-31.

69
providers
100%
verified
17d
median verification age
80
field changes this month

Providers by category

CategoryProviders
Ongoing free tier36
Trial credit33
Total69

Providers by modality

A provider counts once for every modality it offers free.

ModalityProviders
text45
vision10
image10
audio26
embeddings13
rerank6
ocr8

Verification and freshness

MeasureValue
Verified69 of 69 (100%)
Verified with a date69
Oldest verification, as of 2026-08-3129d
Median verification age, as of 2026-08-3117d

Field changes in August 2026

80 field changes across 40 providers.

ProviderFields changed
AI21 LabsOpenAI compatibility
Basetenfree tier, rate limits, the catch
Cartesiacard requirement
Cerebrasfree tier, rate limits, the catch, free type, commercial-use terms, card requirement
Clarifaithe catch
Cloudflare Workers AIthe catch
Contextual AIcard requirement
Datalab (Marker / Surya)free tier, rate limits, the catch, free type, card requirement
Fireworks AIthe catch
GladiaOpenAI compatibility, card requirement
Google Gemini API (AI Studio)rate limits, the catch
Groqrate limits
Jina AIfree tier
LMNTcard requirement
Mistral (La Plateforme)the catch, card requirement, OpenAI compatibility
Modalthe catch, card requirement
Moondream Cloudthe catch, card requirement
NVIDIA NIMcard requirement
Nanonetsthe catch
Novita AIfree tier, the catch, card requirement, commercial-use terms
OVHcloud AI Endpointsfree tier, the catch
OpenRouterfree tier, the catch
Poolsidefree tier, the catch, free type, card requirement
Retell AIthe catch, card requirement
Rev AIthe catch, card requirement
Rimethe catch, card requirement, OpenAI compatibility
Sarvam AIcard requirement
Scaleway Generative APIsthe catch, card requirement
SiliconFlowcard requirement
Smallest.ai (Waves)card requirement
Speechify APIOpenAI compatibility
Speechmaticsfree tier, rate limits, the catch, free type
Tencent Hunyuanthe catch, card requirement
Typhoon (SCB 10X)rate limits, the catch
Unreal Speechthe catch, card requirement
Upstagefree tier, rate limits, the catch
Vercel AI Gatewayfree tier, the catch
Voicegainrate limits
Voyage AIfree tier
Z.ai (Zhipu AI / GLM)card requirement

Providers added in August 2026

No provider in the snapshot has an added date in August 2026.