9 Sept 2026
10 free AI APIs so you stop paying for models
Ten AI model APIs with a genuine free tier, each verified on the provider's own pricing or documentation page on 8 September 2026.
Links from this video
- OpenRouteropenrouter.ai/pricingModels tagged :free cost nothing
- NVIDIA NIMbuild.nvidia.comFree serverless endpoints for open models
- Cloudflare Workers AIdevelopers.cloudflare.com/workers-ai/platform/pricing10,000 free Neurons a day
- Vercel AI Gatewayvercel.com/docs/ai-gateway/pricingFree tier with a monthly credit, no markup
- Hugging Facehuggingface.co/docs/inference-providers/pricingSmall monthly free credits, 200+ models
- Groqconsole.groq.com/docs/rate-limitsFree Plan with published limits
- Cerebrascerebras.ai/pricingFree developer tier
- Coheredocs.cohere.com/docs/rate-limitsFree evaluation keys
- Google AI Studioai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/pricingGemini free tier (content used to improve products)
- Ollamaollama.com/pricingFree locally + starter cloud credits