Free LLM API Resources
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Popular Providers
OpenRouter
20 free models including Llama 3.3 70B, Gemma 3 27B, and Mistral Small 3.1
Groq
Ultra-fast inference with Llama 4 Scout, Compound models, and more
GitHub Models
Access GPT-5, Grok 3, DeepSeek-R1, and 40+ models through GitHub
Google AI Studio
Free access to Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemma 3 models with generous quotas
Cerebras
High-performance inference with gpt-oss-120b and Qwen 3 235B
Cloudflare Workers AI
70+ models with 10,000 neurons/day on the edge
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