# Free LLM Today

> Free LLM API tiers compared: rate limits, credit card, training on your data, commercial use and OpenAI compatibility, each with an official link and date.

Free LLM Today compares the free tiers of LLM API providers. Provider limits and terms are curated by hand: each value records the official page it was read on and the date, and values older than 30 days are shown as not verified. The list of zero-price models on OpenRouter is collected automatically from https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models and published at /data/openrouter-free.json with its collection time in UTC. Confirmed changes to free tiers are at /data/changes.json and as RSS at /changes.xml. Where an official page does not publish a limit, the site says “not published” instead of repeating a number from third-party articles.

## Pages

- [Free LLM API tiers, compared](https://freellm.today/): Free LLM API tiers compared: rate limits, credit card, training on your data, commercial use and OpenAI compatibility, each with an official link and date.
- [Free LLM APIs with no credit card](https://freellm.today/no-credit-card/): Which free LLM API tiers start without a credit card, according to each provider’s own page, and which require a payment method. Checked 3 Oct 2026.
- [Free OpenAI-compatible LLM APIs](https://freellm.today/openai-compatible/): Free LLM APIs that work with the OpenAI SDK: base URL, a model id to try and one code sample for all of them. Read in each provider’s docs on 3 Oct 2026.
- [Free vision LLM APIs](https://freellm.today/vision/): Free LLM API tiers with image input confirmed in the provider’s docs, plus the zero-price OpenRouter models that list image input (collected 3 Oct 2026).
- [Free LLM APIs for commercial use](https://freellm.today/commercial-use/): What each provider’s terms say about using a free LLM API tier in production or for paying customers, quoted from the official page. Checked 3 Oct 2026.
- [Do free LLM APIs train on your data?](https://freellm.today/data-usage/): Whether prompts sent to free LLM API tiers are used for training, according to each provider’s own page: Google, Groq, Cloudflare, OpenRouter and others. Checked 3 Oct 2026.
- [OpenRouter free models list](https://freellm.today/openrouter-free-models/): The 22 models listed at zero price by the OpenRouter API, 17 with a “:free” id, with context window, inputs and tool support. Collected 3 Oct 2026.
- [Free tier changes](https://freellm.today/changes/): A dated log of changes to free LLM API tiers, each confirmed on the provider’s own page: retirements, trials replacing free tiers, limits no longer published. With RSS.

## Providers

- [Groq free tier limits](https://freellm.today/provider/groq/): Groq: Free plan with a published rate-limit table per model. Rate limits, card requirement, data use and OpenAI compatibility, each read on the official page (checked 3 Oct 2026).
- [Google Gemini API free tier limits](https://freellm.today/provider/google-gemini/): Google Gemini API: Free tier on selected Gemini and Gemma models, through Google AI Studio. Rate limits, card requirement, data use and OpenAI compatibility, each read on the official page (checked 3 Oct 2026).
- [OpenRouter free tier limits](https://freellm.today/provider/openrouter/): OpenRouter: Free variants of many models (ids ending in “:free”), with account-wide request limits. Rate limits, card requirement, data use and OpenAI compatibility, each read on the official page (checked 3 Oct 2026).
- [Cloudflare Workers AI free tier limits](https://freellm.today/provider/cloudflare-workers-ai/): Cloudflare Workers AI: “10,000 Neurons per day at no charge” on any plan. Rate limits, card requirement, data use and OpenAI compatibility, each read on the official page (checked 3 Oct 2026).
- [Hugging Face Inference Providers free tier limits](https://freellm.today/provider/hugging-face/): Hugging Face Inference Providers: Monthly credits for every account, spent on models routed through Hugging Face. Rate limits, card requirement, data use and OpenAI compatibility, each read on the official page (checked 3 Oct 2026).
- [NVIDIA NIM free tier limits](https://freellm.today/provider/nvidia-nim/): NVIDIA NIM: Free access to NIM API endpoints for prototyping, for members of the NVIDIA Developer Program. Rate limits, card requirement, data use and OpenAI compatibility, each read on the official page (checked 3 Oct 2026).
- [Cerebras free trial limits](https://freellm.today/provider/cerebras/): Cerebras: No recurring free tier: a free trial of $5 in credits that expire 30 days after they are granted. Rate limits, card requirement, data use and OpenAI compatibility, each read on the official page (checked 3 Oct 2026).
- [GitHub Models: free tier retired](https://freellm.today/provider/github-models/): GitHub Models no longer offers a free tier: The playground, model catalogue and inference API are no longer available. What its own page says, and the free tiers confirmed on 3 Oct 2026.
- [Mistral La Plateforme: free tier not confirmed](https://freellm.today/provider/mistral/): We could not confirm a Mistral La Plateforme free tier on an official page as of 3 Oct 2026. What we looked for and the free tiers that are confirmed.

## Comparisons

- [Groq vs Google Gemini API: free tiers compared](https://freellm.today/compare/groq-vs-google-gemini/): Groq and Google Gemini API free tiers side by side: allowance, requests per minute and per day, card, training on your data and OpenAI compatibility, each with its official source (checked 3 Oct 2026).
- [Groq vs OpenRouter: free tiers compared](https://freellm.today/compare/groq-vs-openrouter/): Groq and OpenRouter free tiers side by side: allowance, requests per minute and per day, card, training on your data and OpenAI compatibility, each with its official source (checked 3 Oct 2026).
- [Google Gemini API vs OpenRouter: free tiers compared](https://freellm.today/compare/google-gemini-vs-openrouter/): Google Gemini API and OpenRouter free tiers side by side: allowance, requests per minute and per day, card, training on your data and OpenAI compatibility, each with its official source (checked 3 Oct 2026).
- [Groq vs Cerebras: free tiers compared](https://freellm.today/compare/groq-vs-cerebras/): Groq and Cerebras free tiers side by side: allowance, requests per minute and per day, card, training on your data and OpenAI compatibility, each with its official source (checked 3 Oct 2026).
- [Groq vs Cloudflare Workers AI: free tiers compared](https://freellm.today/compare/groq-vs-cloudflare-workers-ai/): Groq and Cloudflare Workers AI free tiers side by side: allowance, requests per minute and per day, card, training on your data and OpenAI compatibility, each with its official source (checked 3 Oct 2026).
- [Google Gemini API vs Cloudflare Workers AI: free tiers compared](https://freellm.today/compare/google-gemini-vs-cloudflare-workers-ai/): Google Gemini API and Cloudflare Workers AI free tiers side by side: allowance, requests per minute and per day, card, training on your data and OpenAI compatibility, each with its official source (checked 3 Oct 2026).
- [OpenRouter vs Hugging Face Inference Providers: free tiers compared](https://freellm.today/compare/openrouter-vs-hugging-face/): OpenRouter and Hugging Face Inference Providers free tiers side by side: allowance, requests per minute and per day, card, training on your data and OpenAI compatibility, each with its official source (checked 3 Oct 2026).
- [OpenRouter vs NVIDIA NIM: free tiers compared](https://freellm.today/compare/openrouter-vs-nvidia-nim/): OpenRouter and NVIDIA NIM free tiers side by side: allowance, requests per minute and per day, card, training on your data and OpenAI compatibility, each with its official source (checked 3 Oct 2026).

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