Awesome Free Llm Apis

This is a reference table for LLM providers with actual permanent free tiers, not trial credits that expire. It covers both first-party APIs (Gemini, Mistral, Cohere) and inference providers hosting open models (Groq, Cerebras, OpenRouter). Every endpoint listed is OpenAI SDK-compatible, so you can swap providers by changing two lines of code. The rate limits are documented upfront, which saves you from hitting walls during prototyping. Useful when you need to compare what you can actually build for free or want a fallback provider without spinning up your own inference stack. The code examples are copy-paste ready with proper environment variable handling.

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$ npx -y skills add aradotso/trending-skills --skill awesome-free-llm-apis --agent claude-code

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Awesome Free LLM APIs

Skill by ara.so — Daily 2026 Skills collection.

A curated list of LLM providers offering permanent free tiers for text inference — no trial credits, no expiry. All endpoints listed are OpenAI SDK-compatible unless noted.

Provider Overview

Provider APIs (trained/fine-tuned by the company)

Provider	Notable Models	Rate Limits	Region
Cohere	Command A, Command R+, Aya Expanse 32B	20 RPM, 1K req/mo	🇺🇸
Google Gemini	Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash, Flash-Lite	5–15 RPM, 100–1K RPD	🇺🇸 (not EU/UK/CH)
Mistral AI	Mistral Large 3, Small 3.1, Ministral 8B	1 req/s, 1B tok/mo	🇪🇺
Zhipu AI	GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.5-Flash, GLM-4.6V-Flash	Undocumented	🇨🇳