State of free LLM APIs — October 2026

Computed from the last revision of providers.json committed in October 2026 (2026-10-08) and the git-mined change history. Ages are measured as of 2026-10-08.

68
providers
98.5%
verified
0d
median verification age
124
field changes this month

Providers by category

CategoryProviders
Ongoing free tier34
Trial credit34
Total68

Providers by modality

A provider counts once for every modality it offers free.

ModalityProviders
text45
vision10
image11
audio26
embeddings13
rerank6
ocr8

Verification and freshness

MeasureValue
Verified67 of 68 (98.5%)
Verified with a date67
Oldest verification, as of 2026-10-0856d
Median verification age, as of 2026-10-080d

Field changes in October 2026

124 field changes across 57 providers.

ProviderFields changed
Alibaba Cloud (Model Studio)free tier, the catch, rate limits
Arli AIfree tier, rate limits
Basetenrate limits, the catch
Camb.aifree tier, rate limits, the catch, free type
Cerebrasrate limits
Clarifaithe catch
Cloudflare Workers AIrate limits
Contextual AIrate limits
Datalab (Marker / Surya)rate limits, the catch, phone requirement
ElevenLabsrate limits, the catch
Fireworks AIrate limits
Fish Audiofree tier, rate limits, the catch
Gladiarate limits
Google Gemini API (AI Studio)rate limits
Groqfree tier, rate limits
HuggingFacefree tier
Hume AI (Octave TTS)free tier, rate limits, the catch, commercial-use terms
Jina AIrate limits
LlamaParse (LlamaCloud)free tier
Mistral (La Plateforme)free tier, rate limits, the catch
Modalthe catch
ModelScope (API-Inference)free tier, rate limits
Moondream Cloudrate limits, the catch
NVIDIA NIMrate limits
Nanonetsrate limits
Nebius AI Studiorate limits
Novita AIfree tier, the catch, rate limits
Nutrient (Data Extraction API)rate limits
OCR.spacefree tier
OVHcloud AI Endpointsfree tier, card requirement
Ollama Cloudfree tier, rate limits, the catch, card requirement
OpenRouterfree tier
Pinecone Inferencefree tier, rate limits, the catch
Pollinations.aifree tier, rate limits, the catch, free type, OpenAI compatibility
Poolsidefree tier, rate limits, the catch
Retell AIfree tier, rate limits, the catch, card requirement
Rev AIthe catch
Rimefree tier
Runwarefree tier, rate limits, the catch
SambaNova Cloudthe catch
Sarvam AIfree tier, rate limits, the catch, commercial-use terms, card requirement
Scaleway Generative APIsrate limits, the catch
SiliconFlowfree tier, the catch
Smallest.ai (Waves)free tier, rate limits, the catch, card requirement
Speechify APIfree tier, rate limits, the catch
Speechmaticsfree tier, rate limits, the catch
Tencent Hunyuanfree tier, rate limits, the catch
Twelve Labs (Marengo Embed)free tier
Typhoon (SCB 10X)rate limits
Unreal Speechrate limits
Unstructuredfree tier, rate limits, the catch, free type
Upstagefree tier, rate limits, the catch
Vercel AI Gatewayrate limits, the catch
Voicegainrate limits, the catch
Voyage AIrate limits, free tier, the catch
W&B Inferencefree tier, rate limits, the catch, free type
Z.ai (Zhipu AI / GLM)the catch

Providers added in October 2026

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