I made a list of Text‑generation LLM API models that are currently available as free and self‑replenishing from their API providers, stress‑tested for coding and for everyday chat.
Below is a table for the list of LLM Providers that we currently have (47).
| LLM Provider | Free Tier Quota |
|---|---|
| AION Labs | 15 RPM / 20,000 TPD |
| Agnes AI | 20 RPM / 1,000 RPD |
| AnyAPI AI | 100,000 tokens/day / No Credit Card |
| Auriko | 500 RPM (BYOK) / 1,000 RPM (Platform) / 1,000,000 tokens/month (BYOK) / Has Permanently Free models |
| BazaarLink | 10 RPM / 50 RPD / Free Models only |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | 150 to 1,500 RPM / 100,000 RPD / 13,000 TPD |
| Cohere AI | 20 RPM / 1,000 API calls per month |
| ElectronHub | 5 RPM / $0.25 Weekly Credits |
| EvolveX | 5 RPM / No Credit Card |
| FastRouter | 10 RPD per model / No Billing Credits Required |
| Free.ai | 10 RPM / 30,000 TPD / 1,000 Requests per month / Currently available self-hosted models only |
| FreeInference | $20 CPD / 2 Max Concurrent Requests |
| Google Gemini | 5-20 RPM / 20-500 RPD / 1M TPM / Uncapped TPD |
| Gonka Broker | 6 RPM / ~1M tokens per month |
| Groq API | 30 RPM / 14,400 RPD / 18,000 TPM |
| HelixMind | 3 RPM / 50 RPD |
| Hugging Face Inference API | $0.10/month credits (~650K tokens) |
| Intern AI | 30 RPM / 300,000 TPM / 90,000,000 Tokens per month (3,000,000 TPD) |
| Kilo Gateway | 5 RPM / 200 RPD |
| LLM.Kiwi | 40 RPH / No Credit Card |
| LLM7.IO | 40 RPM / 2,400 RPD / 128,000 Characters per Request / 1,000,000 TPD |
| LiteRouter | Unlimited Requests (for some Free models) / 1 concurrent request / 7s Cooldown |
| MegaNova AI | 60 RPM / 550 RPD / 200,000 TPM |
| Mistral AI | ~2–30 RPM / 50,000 TPM shared pool |
| Mixlayer | 20 RPM / Can be rate-limited (daily usage) |
| Naga AI | 10 RPM / 100 RPD |
| NVIDIA NIM | 40 RPM / Uncapped TPD |
| Odirouter | 5 RPM / 50 RPD / Free Models Only / 2 Parallel Multimodal Queries |
| Ollama Cloud | 1 Instance / 5-Hour Session Usage / 7-day Weekly Usage |
| OpenCode Zen | 30 RPM / 500 RPD / 1,000,000 TPD / Daily Limits |
| OpenRouter | 20 RPM / 50 RPD |
| Orcarouter | Unspecified rate limits / Free models only |
| Poixe AI | 10,000 RPD / 10,000,000 TPD |
| Pooled AI | 1M TPD / Minimax models only |
| Poolside | 20 RPM / 200 RPD / 150,000 TPM / 1,000,000 TPD |
| Requesty | 200 RPD / Free Models only |
| Routeway AI | 5 RPM / 200 RPD / 300,000 TPD |
| SEA-LION | 10 RPM |
| Tokeness | Unspecified Rate Limits / Free models only |
| TokenReply | 3 RPM / Free Models Only |
| Void AI | 100 RPM / 125,000 Daily Credits |
| VSLLM | Unspecified Rate Limits / Free Models only |
| xKiro AI | 5M TPD / Free models only |
| Yolo-Auto | 15 RPD |
| Z.AI (Zhipu AI) | 1 Concurrent Request / Uncapped TPD |
| Zydit AI | Unlimited Requests / 10 RPM / Free models only (For v3 endpoints) |
| Zylo API | 10 RPM / 7,200 RPD / 200,000 TPD |
⭐Explore the entire curated list and star the repository on GitHub I wished to have a LLM API that is needed for my long-term projects. There are so many options I can choose from, but sometimes it always fails in the long run.
The main point of failure are the free trials and one-time credits, that once drained can never be refilled again.
I promised for Free LLM APIs to follow these two main goals:
I had a third goal if second condition fails, that is:
So I've gone throughout the web, sailing across websites, as I went through several popular AI agents or libraries with their provider documentation showing a list of supported providers.
The goal is to sign myself up as a normal, unpaid user whose requirement is to know whether it refreshes its free quota or not.
I then stress-tested their model endpoints from each provider according to their rate limits.
The number of LLM Providers has dropped unexpectedly due to not having a single model found to be 200 OK but requiring payment.
To store it as helpful information, I made a repository that showcases all verified providers and its models under a single README.
Hence, I named it "Free BYOK Models", where it looks for "** Free AI models from their BYOK-compatible LLM Providers that are free and replenishable.**"
The repository is updated regularly to make it up-to-date with its latest model lists.
If you find a provider that is free and replenishable, and has no gated services, feel free to comment, or submit a PR since it updates fast.