TypeTime-limited7Free Tier123New User28Free Only7
AccessAPI57Desktop37CLI22Web87App21
TagCoding29Agents30Work26Chat30Image31Video24Audio23Search16Embedded3Platforms21OCR4Scraping6Document Parsing6TTS8Compute2

Free AI Tools with API Access

Free AI Coding Tools

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GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.6V-Flash: input, output, and cache free (concurrency 1).
New-user starter pack New users: 20M free Tokens on sign-up, plus 120 image & video generations

GLM-4.7-Flash, works with Claude Code and coding agents

    Search grounding: 5,000 free search requests per month (shared across all Gemini 3 and newer models), then $14 per 1,000 requests; not available on Gemini 2.5 and older.

    API access to Gemini multimodal models

      Free plan Limited messages, web searches and coding sessions on Vibe (web + mobile), basic image generation, and Mistral Studio to test Mistral models

      Mistral's official API, chat and coding platform

        U2 Decision free for a limited time Time-limited free: input, cache hits and output are all ¥0 per 1M tokens (no end date announced)

        Unisound model platform, U2 Flash and more free for a limited time

          Free tier (default key): free API calls for multiple text, image and video models; RPM limits are dynamic, suitable for basic testing and light use.

          Multimodal API with agnes-2.5-flash and more models

            Free tier (default key): free API calls for multiple text, image and video models; RPM limits are dynamic, suitable for basic testing and light use.

            Multimodal API platform with agnes-2.5-flash and more models

              Free AI Agent Tools

              2 resources
              Free plan Limited messages, web searches and coding sessions on Vibe (web + mobile), basic image generation, and Mistral Studio to test Mistral models

              Mistral's official API, chat and coding platform

                U2 Decision free for a limited time Time-limited free: input, cache hits and output are all ¥0 per 1M tokens (no end date announced)

                Unisound model platform, U2 Flash and more free for a limited time

                  Free AI Chat Assistants

                  16 resources
                  GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.6V-Flash: input, output, and cache free (concurrency 1).
                  New-user starter pack New users: 20M free Tokens on sign-up, plus 120 image & video generations

                  GLM-4.7-Flash, works with Claude Code and coding agents

                    :free models: 20 req/min; 50/day before top-up, 1,000/day after $10 purchased

                    Unified API gateway with hundreds of models

                      Free · Public Beta ¥0/mo free public beta: 60,000 credits / 5 hours (special models excluded), up to 20 API keys

                      SenseNova 6.8 Flash Lite / U1 Fast free beta

                        LongCat-Flash-Lite 50M tokens/day; Chat/Thinking 500K/day each

                        Meituan AI chat and API service powered by LongCat models

                          Web Search API free tier: up to 100 queries a day via MCP
                          No API key, no account, no credit card

                          AI search engine with multi-model chat

                            Free tier: $5 usage per month (selected models only; not applicable after purchasing paid credits)

                            Unified AI gateway: hundreds of models behind one endpoint

                              Search grounding: 5,000 free search requests per month (shared across all Gemini 3 and newer models), then $14 per 1,000 requests; not available on Gemini 2.5 and older.

                              API access to Gemini multimodal models

                                Chat API: 20 calls/minute, 1,000 API calls/month; Audio/Embed and other models have different limits. Main models include: Command A+, Command A, Command R+, Command R, etc.

                                Command models and embeddings, good for RAG

                                  Free plan Limited messages, web searches and coding sessions on Vibe (web + mobile), basic image generation, and Mistral Studio to test Mistral models

                                  Mistral's official API, chat and coding platform

                                    3,000 resource points per month (1,000 resource points ≈ ¥1); 1 free environment per account, each renewed for 6 months

                                    DB, functions, storage and LLM calls on one resource-point pool

                                      $200 credits (30 days) + popular services free for 12 months (see official list)

                                      Microsoft Azure account for new users with AI services

                                        1M shared tokens on activation (valid 1 year) + another 1M for Embedding

                                        Tencent Hunyuan LLM API, incl. Hy4 preview

                                          1M tokens per model, valid 90 days (Beijing region only)
                                          Auto-granted after real-name verification on first activation; pay-as-you-go afterwards

                                          Model marketplace with 70+ models including Qwen

                                            Free tier (default key): free API calls for multiple text, image and video models; RPM limits are dynamic, suitable for basic testing and light use.

                                            Multimodal API with agnes-2.5-flash and more models

                                              Free tier: per-model limits (typically 10–30 RPM, 100–14.4K requests/day depending on model; see official rate-limits doc); no credit card

                                              LPU-powered cloud inference for open-weight models

                                                Free tier (default key): free API calls for multiple text, image and video models; RPM limits are dynamic, suitable for basic testing and light use.

                                                Multimodal API platform with agnes-2.5-flash and more models

                                                  Free AI Image Generators

                                                  8 resources
                                                  Free · Public Beta ¥0/mo free public beta: 60,000 credits / 5 hours (special models excluded), up to 20 API keys

                                                  SenseNova 6.8 Flash Lite / U1 Fast free beta

                                                    Free: 3 generations per style per day + 3 image uploads daily (up to 2 images each; non-commercial)

                                                    AI image and vector design tool for professionals

                                                      Anonymous access No signup and no API key: call the image.pollinations.ai and text.pollinations.ai endpoints directly for image/text generation; official rate limits are not published.
                                                      Quest Pollen Earn free Pollen by completing GitHub Quests, trying models, or publishing an app/agent (1 Pollen ≈ $1) to spend on paid models; quests and rewards change dynamically.

                                                      Text / image / audio generation API, no signup, open source

                                                        10 credits / month
                                                        Unlimited admin team members

                                                        Computer vision platform for training and inference

                                                          Search grounding: 5,000 free search requests per month (shared across all Gemini 3 and newer models), then $14 per 1,000 requests; not available on Gemini 2.5 and older.

                                                          API access to Gemini multimodal models

                                                            3,000 resource points per month (1,000 resource points ≈ ¥1); 1 free environment per account, each renewed for 6 months

                                                            DB, functions, storage and LLM calls on one resource-point pool

                                                              Free tier (default key): free API calls for multiple text, image and video models; RPM limits are dynamic, suitable for basic testing and light use.

                                                              Multimodal API with agnes-2.5-flash and more models

                                                                Free tier (default key): free API calls for multiple text, image and video models; RPM limits are dynamic, suitable for basic testing and light use.

                                                                Multimodal API platform with agnes-2.5-flash and more models

                                                                  Free AI Video Generators

                                                                  5 resources
                                                                  Free · Public Beta ¥0/mo free public beta: 60,000 credits / 5 hours (special models excluded), up to 20 API keys

                                                                  SenseNova 6.8 Flash Lite / U1 Fast free beta

                                                                    Anonymous access No signup and no API key: call the image.pollinations.ai and text.pollinations.ai endpoints directly for image/text generation; official rate limits are not published.
                                                                    Quest Pollen Earn free Pollen by completing GitHub Quests, trying models, or publishing an app/agent (1 Pollen ≈ $1) to spend on paid models; quests and rewards change dynamically.

                                                                    Text / image / audio generation API, no signup, open source

                                                                      Search grounding: 5,000 free search requests per month (shared across all Gemini 3 and newer models), then $14 per 1,000 requests; not available on Gemini 2.5 and older.

                                                                      API access to Gemini multimodal models

                                                                        Free tier (default key): free API calls for multiple text, image and video models; RPM limits are dynamic, suitable for basic testing and light use.

                                                                        Multimodal API with agnes-2.5-flash and more models

                                                                          Free tier (default key): free API calls for multiple text, image and video models; RPM limits are dynamic, suitable for basic testing and light use.

                                                                          Multimodal API platform with agnes-2.5-flash and more models

                                                                            Free AI Audio Tools

                                                                            12 resources
                                                                            Free plan: 10,000 credits/month

                                                                            ElevenLabs text-to-speech

                                                                              Free tier: 20K credits/month + $1 prepaid agents/month

                                                                              Ultra-low latency Sonic TTS

                                                                                Anonymous access No signup and no API key: call the image.pollinations.ai and text.pollinations.ai endpoints directly for image/text generation; official rate limits are not published.
                                                                                Quest Pollen Earn free Pollen by completing GitHub Quests, trying models, or publishing an app/agent (1 Pollen ≈ $1) to spend on paid models; quests and rewards change dynamically.

                                                                                Text / image / audio generation API, no signup, open source

                                                                                  Search grounding: 5,000 free search requests per month (shared across all Gemini 3 and newer models), then $14 per 1,000 requests; not available on Gemini 2.5 and older.

                                                                                  API access to Gemini multimodal models

                                                                                    Chat API: 20 calls/minute, 1,000 API calls/month; Audio/Embed and other models have different limits. Main models include: Command A+, Command A, Command R+, Command R, etc.

                                                                                    Command models and embeddings, good for RAG

                                                                                      0–1 million characters free each month (0–4 million for some voice classes), metered beyond that; a billing account (card) is required

                                                                                      Google Cloud speech synthesis with Chirp 3 HD, WaveNet and Gemini TTS voices

                                                                                        $50 of usage every month, renews monthly ($0/mo, no card required), across Prism, Mist v3, Coda v2 and Rime STT
                                                                                        Until Rime STT free (limited time) Rime STT free on every plan for a limited time, then $0.002 per minute

                                                                                        Low-latency TTS APIs: Mist v3, Prism, Coda v2 and more

                                                                                          Free Free plan at $0: 250K characters per month (about 6 hours of audio per the pricing page)
                                                                                          Overage is billed daily at the plan rate (Basic is $16 per 1M characters)
                                                                                          Plan allowances are metered per month; card requirement depends on the signup page

                                                                                          Unreal Speech text-to-speech API with streaming and multilingual voices

                                                                                            Signup free credit New accounts get 50€ in free credits, valid for one year (≈312 hours of async transcription on Solaria-3); no subscription

                                                                                            Multilingual speech-to-text and real-time transcription API

                                                                                              $200 free credit on signup (~26,000 minutes of Nova-3 transcription at $0.0077/min), available until used up (no expiry), no credit card

                                                                                              Speech-to-text and TTS platform with Nova models

                                                                                                Free tier: up to 185 hours of pre-recorded transcription and up to 333 hours of streaming transcription, no credit card required

                                                                                                High-accuracy voice AI platform covering 99 languages

                                                                                                  $100 in credit for new accounts, no card required to sign up
                                                                                                  Free plan includes 2 concurrent real-time sessions and 55+ languages
                                                                                                  A card is required to keep calling after the credit runs out
                                                                                                  Sign-up credits last 12 months

                                                                                                  Multilingual speech-to-text and live transcription API

                                                                                                    Free AI Search Tools

                                                                                                    12 resources
                                                                                                    10 calls/day (5000 calls/day after real-name auth, shared quota pool).

                                                                                                    AI answers grounded in Zhihu's content library

                                                                                                      5,000 Free Requests per Month Run up to 5,000 requests per month for free across the Task, Search, Extract, Responses, Monitor and FindAll APIs; paid per request beyond that
                                                                                                      Up to $80 at Signup Earn up to $80 at signup plus $5 in free credits every month, applied before paid balance
                                                                                                      Hosted MCP, No Account The hosted MCP endpoint serves web search and page fetching with no account, no API key and no card, under lower rate limits
                                                                                                      Up to $250 for Startups Qualified startups can receive up to $250 in free credits by applying through Parallel

                                                                                                      Search and extraction for agents, keyless MCP endpoint

                                                                                                        A new API key comes with 10M free tokens (shared across Reader, Embeddings and Reranker); 20 RPM without an API key, 500 RPM with a free API key.

                                                                                                        Search AI APIs: Embeddings, Reranker, DeepSearch

                                                                                                          1,000 API credits per month, no credit card

                                                                                                          Real-time search & extract API built for AI agents and RAG

                                                                                                            Free: $10 credits per month (no payment method required)

                                                                                                            Semantic search and web content extraction API

                                                                                                              Web Search API free tier: up to 100 queries a day via MCP
                                                                                                              No API key, no account, no credit card

                                                                                                              AI search engine with multi-model chat

                                                                                                                Free: $5 in credits every month ($5 per 1,000 requests); a card is required to subscribe to the free plan but is only used to verify identity and is not charged

                                                                                                                Independent search index API with AI summaries

                                                                                                                  1,000 free credits/month (~1,000 pages scraped / 500 searches), no credit card required

                                                                                                                  Web scraping API turning URLs into clean Markdown/JSON for LLMs

                                                                                                                    Free Tier $0/month: 1,000 credits/mo, renewing monthly with no overage, no credit card required; 2 concurrent requests per organization with no per-minute cap; Scrape from 1 credit per call; 10K one-time Logo Link requests

                                                                                                                    Web scraping and brand-data API for AI apps

                                                                                                                      Free plan with monthly platform credits: $5/month platform usage (≈25 CU)

                                                                                                                      Web scraping & automation platform with a free plan

                                                                                                                        Free plan: 1 browser hour, 1,000 Search API calls, 1,000 Fetch API calls, 3 concurrent browsers, 15 min/session, $5 in model tokens

                                                                                                                        Cloud browser infrastructure that lets AI agents operate the web

                                                                                                                          New accounts get $10 in free credits ($20 with a work email), usable across every source

                                                                                                                          Real-time search and deep-research API for AI agents

                                                                                                                            Free AI Embedded Models

                                                                                                                            2 resources
                                                                                                                            A new API key comes with 10M free tokens (shared across Reader, Embeddings and Reranker); 20 RPM without an API key, 500 RPM with a free API key.

                                                                                                                            Search AI APIs: Embeddings, Reranker, DeepSearch

                                                                                                                              Chat API: 20 calls/minute, 1,000 API calls/month; Audio/Embed and other models have different limits. Main models include: Command A+, Command A, Command R+, Command R, etc.

                                                                                                                              Command models and embeddings, good for RAG

                                                                                                                                Free AI Platforms

                                                                                                                                19 resources
                                                                                                                                Free: up to 40 requests/min for most models, no per-token billing; personal limit shown in dashboard

                                                                                                                                Serverless inference APIs accelerated by DGX Cloud

                                                                                                                                  Some models are time-limited free: Spark-X2.5-4B (native 1M token context), DeepSeek-OCR.

                                                                                                                                  iFlytek MaaS platform with Spark and 60+ open-source models

                                                                                                                                    :free models: 20 req/min; 50/day before top-up, 1,000/day after $10 purchased

                                                                                                                                    Unified API gateway with hundreds of models

                                                                                                                                      User monthly allowance A free monthly allowance per user (exact amount shown in the usage dashboard); upgrade prompts once exhausted

                                                                                                                                      User-pays model: call GPT/Claude models from frontend scripts

                                                                                                                                        2,000 free API calls per day, 200 MoLi credits on login (profile completion required)

                                                                                                                                        Alibaba's open-source model hub for hosting and inference

                                                                                                                                          Free plan: 10,000 Neurons per day

                                                                                                                                          Serverless edge inference for Llama, Qwen, GLM, Kimi

                                                                                                                                            Starter plan: $30 free compute credits/month (no rollover)

                                                                                                                                            Serverless GPU compute platform built for AI/ML workloads

                                                                                                                                              Curated models in the try-for-free collection come with a fixed number of free runs, not free forever (No. The models in this collection are free for a limited number of runs); after the free use limit you must add billing and purchase credit to continue.

                                                                                                                                              Serverless cloud GPU inference for hundreds of open models

                                                                                                                                                Anonymous access No signup and no API key: call the image.pollinations.ai and text.pollinations.ai endpoints directly for image/text generation; official rate limits are not published.
                                                                                                                                                Quest Pollen Earn free Pollen by completing GitHub Quests, trying models, or publishing an app/agent (1 Pollen ≈ $1) to spend on paid models; quests and rewards change dynamically.

                                                                                                                                                Text / image / audio generation API, no signup, open source

                                                                                                                                                  Free tier: $5 usage per month (selected models only; not applicable after purchasing paid credits)

                                                                                                                                                  Unified AI gateway: hundreds of models behind one endpoint

                                                                                                                                                    Free shared model APIs: 20 req/min per account (gateway) + per-period spend cap

                                                                                                                                                    AMD's official GPU cloud for model inference

                                                                                                                                                      Free plan Limited messages, web searches and coding sessions on Vibe (web + mobile), basic image generation, and Mistral Studio to test Mistral models

                                                                                                                                                      Mistral's official API, chat and coding platform

                                                                                                                                                        3,000 resource points per month (1,000 resource points ≈ ¥1); 1 free environment per account, each renewed for 6 months

                                                                                                                                                        DB, functions, storage and LLM calls on one resource-point pool

                                                                                                                                                          Some models free The pricing page marks each model as free or time-limited free (including some sub-9B small models); check the per-model labels for the exact scope.
                                                                                                                                                          Until New user credit 16 CNY voucher on real-name verification; +16 CNY each for invited friends (until 2026-12-31)

                                                                                                                                                          AI model aggregation platform with custom inference engine

                                                                                                                                                            $200 credits (30 days) + popular services free for 12 months (see official list)

                                                                                                                                                            Microsoft Azure account for new users with AI services

                                                                                                                                                              1M shared tokens on activation (valid 1 year) + another 1M for Embedding

                                                                                                                                                              Tencent Hunyuan LLM API, incl. Hy4 preview

                                                                                                                                                                1M tokens per model, valid 90 days (Beijing region only)
                                                                                                                                                                Auto-granted after real-name verification on first activation; pay-as-you-go afterwards

                                                                                                                                                                Model marketplace with 70+ models including Qwen

                                                                                                                                                                  U2 Decision free for a limited time Time-limited free: input, cache hits and output are all ¥0 per 1M tokens (no end date announced)

                                                                                                                                                                  Unisound model platform, U2 Flash and more free for a limited time

                                                                                                                                                                    New users can claim 10M tokens from the registration promotion.
                                                                                                                                                                    Some free LLM models are provided, with rate or frequency limits.

                                                                                                                                                                    LLM API service on China's national supercomputing network

                                                                                                                                                                      Free AI OCR Tools

                                                                                                                                                                      4 resources
                                                                                                                                                                      Free API: 25,000 requests/month, 1MB per file; 500 requests/day/IP

                                                                                                                                                                      Online OCR service and API for images and PDFs

                                                                                                                                                                        $150 in Free Usage $150 in free usage on the Standard plan with no contract; after the free $150, list rates apply (Parse about $10 per 1,000 pages, Extract about $20)

                                                                                                                                                                        Document parsing and extraction for RAG and agents

                                                                                                                                                                          10,000 Free Credits 10,000 credits included free on the self-serve plan ($100), then $0.01 per additional credit; no contract or monthly minimum

                                                                                                                                                                          Document parsing with confidence scores and schema agents

                                                                                                                                                                            Free allowance of $10/month with a personal email or $20/month with a work email; no card needed to use it.

                                                                                                                                                                            Document parsing API with a free tier

                                                                                                                                                                              Free AI Scraping Tools

                                                                                                                                                                              6 resources
                                                                                                                                                                              A new API key comes with 10M free tokens (shared across Reader, Embeddings and Reranker); 20 RPM without an API key, 500 RPM with a free API key.

                                                                                                                                                                              Search AI APIs: Embeddings, Reranker, DeepSearch

                                                                                                                                                                                Free: $10 credits per month (no payment method required)

                                                                                                                                                                                Semantic search and web content extraction API

                                                                                                                                                                                  1,000 free credits/month (~1,000 pages scraped / 500 searches), no credit card required

                                                                                                                                                                                  Web scraping API turning URLs into clean Markdown/JSON for LLMs

                                                                                                                                                                                    Free Tier $0/month: 1,000 credits/mo, renewing monthly with no overage, no credit card required; 2 concurrent requests per organization with no per-minute cap; Scrape from 1 credit per call; 10K one-time Logo Link requests

                                                                                                                                                                                    Web scraping and brand-data API for AI apps

                                                                                                                                                                                      Free plan with monthly platform credits: $5/month platform usage (≈25 CU)

                                                                                                                                                                                      Web scraping & automation platform with a free plan

                                                                                                                                                                                        Free plan: 1 browser hour, 1,000 Search API calls, 1,000 Fetch API calls, 3 concurrent browsers, 15 min/session, $5 in model tokens

                                                                                                                                                                                        Cloud browser infrastructure that lets AI agents operate the web

                                                                                                                                                                                          Free AI Document Parsing Tools

                                                                                                                                                                                          6 resources
                                                                                                                                                                                          $150 in Free Usage $150 in free usage on the Standard plan with no contract; after the free $150, list rates apply (Parse about $10 per 1,000 pages, Extract about $20)

                                                                                                                                                                                          Document parsing and extraction for RAG and agents

                                                                                                                                                                                            10,000 Free Credits 10,000 credits included free on the self-serve plan ($100), then $0.01 per additional credit; no contract or monthly minimum

                                                                                                                                                                                            Document parsing with confidence scores and schema agents

                                                                                                                                                                                              10k free credits per month for new users

                                                                                                                                                                                              Managed document parsing and indexing for RAG data pipelines

                                                                                                                                                                                                Free allowance of $10/month with a personal email or $20/month with a work email; no card needed to use it.

                                                                                                                                                                                                Document parsing API with a free tier

                                                                                                                                                                                                  10,000 free pages when your account starts, no card required; $0.015 per page after

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Document parsing API that makes data LLM-ready

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Every document agent includes 10 free runs, no credit card required

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Solar LLM and document AI APIs

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Free AI Text-to-Speech Tools

                                                                                                                                                                                                      6 resources
                                                                                                                                                                                                      Free plan: 10,000 credits/month

                                                                                                                                                                                                      ElevenLabs text-to-speech

                                                                                                                                                                                                        Free tier: 20K credits/month + $1 prepaid agents/month

                                                                                                                                                                                                        Ultra-low latency Sonic TTS

                                                                                                                                                                                                          0–1 million characters free each month (0–4 million for some voice classes), metered beyond that; a billing account (card) is required

                                                                                                                                                                                                          Google Cloud speech synthesis with Chirp 3 HD, WaveNet and Gemini TTS voices

                                                                                                                                                                                                            $50 of usage every month, renews monthly ($0/mo, no card required), across Prism, Mist v3, Coda v2 and Rime STT
                                                                                                                                                                                                            Until Rime STT free (limited time) Rime STT free on every plan for a limited time, then $0.002 per minute

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Low-latency TTS APIs: Mist v3, Prism, Coda v2 and more

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Free Free plan at $0: 250K characters per month (about 6 hours of audio per the pricing page)
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Overage is billed daily at the plan rate (Basic is $16 per 1M characters)
                                                                                                                                                                                                              Plan allowances are metered per month; card requirement depends on the signup page

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Unreal Speech text-to-speech API with streaming and multilingual voices

                                                                                                                                                                                                                $200 free credit on signup (~26,000 minutes of Nova-3 transcription at $0.0077/min), available until used up (no expiry), no credit card

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Speech-to-text and TTS platform with Nova models