Agent skill · research science · aradotso
awesome-free-llm-apis
Reference guide for permanent free-tier LLM APIs with rate limits, model lists, and OpenAI-compatible integration patterns.
Why this skill is useful
Provides specific integration patterns and API key management for various free-tier LLM providers that the AI wouldn't reliably generate on its own.
What it needs
Requires cerebras, cloudflare, cohere, github, google, groq, huggingface, kluster, llm7, mistral, nvidia, ollama, openrouter, zhipu account access. About 7k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-07-09. 70 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Awesome Free LLM APIs Skill by ara.so — Daily 2026 Skills collection. A curated list of LLM providers offering permanent free tiers for text inference — no trial credits, no expiry. All endpoints listed are OpenAI SDK-compatible unless noted. --- Provider Overview Provider APIs (trained/fine-tuned by the company) Provider Notable Models Rate Limits Region --- --- --- --- Cohere Command A, Command R+, Aya Expanse 32B 20 RPM, 1K req/mo 🇺🇸 Google Gemini Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash, Flash-Lite 5–15 RPM, 100–1K RPD 🇺🇸 (not EU/UK/CH) Mistral AI Mistral Large 3, Small 3.1, Ministral 8B 1 req/s, 1B tok/mo 🇪🇺 Zhipu AI GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.5-Flash, GLM-4.6V-Flash Undocumented 🇨🇳 Inference Providers (host open-weight models) Provider Notable Models Rate Limits Region --- --- --- --- Cerebras Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen3 235B, GPT-OSS-120B 30 RPM, 14,400 RPD 🇺🇸 Cloudflare Workers AI Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen QwQ 32B 10K neurons/day 🇺🇸 GitHub Models GPT-4o, Llama 3.3 70B, DeepSeek-R1 10–15 RPM, 50–150 RPD 🇺🇸 Groq Llama 3.3 70B, Llama 4 Scout, Kimi K2 30 RPM, 1K RPD 🇺🇸 Hugging Face Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen2.5 72B, Mistral 7B $0.10/mo free credits 🇺🇸 Kluster AI DeepSeek-R1, Llama 4 Maverick, Qwen3-235B Undocumented 🇺🇸 LLM7.io DeepSeek R1, Flash-Lite, Qwen2.5 Coder 30 RPM (120 with token) 🇬🇧 NVIDIA NIM Llama 3.3 70B, Mistral Large, Qwen3 235B 40 RPM 🇺🇸 Ollama Cloud DeepSeek-V3.2, Qwen3.5, Kimi-K2.5 1 concurrent, light usage 🇺🇸 OpenRouter DeepSeek R1, Llama 3.3 70B, GPT-OSS-120B 20 RPM, 50 RPD (1K with $10+) 🇺🇸 --- Getting API Keys Each provider has its own key management page: --- OpenAI SDK Integration All providers (except Ollama Cloud) are OpenAI SDK-compatible — just swap the baseurl and apikey. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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