TypeTime-limited7Free Tier123New User28Free Only7
AccessAPI57Desktop37CLI22Web87App21
TagCoding29Agents30Work26Chat30Image31Video24Audio23Search16Embedded3Platforms21OCR4Scraping6Document Parsing6TTS8Compute2

Pollinations.ai

· Verified 2026-10-28
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An open-source AI generation platform, providing unified API and Web tools to call text, image, video, audio, 3D, Embedding, and other AI models, with support for CLI, MCP, and community apps.

Free Tier

  • Anonymous access
    Quota
    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.
    The legacy endpoints (image.pollinations.ai / text.pollinations.ai) are still callable directly; the official docs recommend API keys plus Pollen billing for new projects.
  • Quest Pollen
    Quota
    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.

Providers offering this model

  • PollinationsNo 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.

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