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Modal is serverless compute you deploy models on, not a hosted model API", "best_for": "Self-hosting open models on free monthly GPU credit", "modalities": [ "text" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://modal.com/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "sambanova", "name": "SambaNova Cloud", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "Rate-limited free tier (applies when no payment method is linked) across all models", "rate_limits": "Free Tier: 20 RPM / 20 RPD / 200,000 TPD across all models; Developer Tier (card required): 60-240 RPM depending on model", "notes": "Free Tier applies when no payment method is linked to the account; SambaCloud ToS grants a commercial license (no evaluation-only clause). 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Hosted API is commercial-OK and data is not used for training. No card required.", "best_for": "Free embeddings & rerank behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint", "modalities": [ "text", "image", "embeddings", "rerank" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://jina.ai/embeddings/", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://api.jina.ai/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "deepgram", "name": "Deepgram", "category": "trial", "free_type": "trial-credit", "free_tier": "$200 free credit on signup (no card, no expiration) — Nova speech-to-text and Aura text-to-speech at pay-as-you-go rates", "rate_limits": "STT pre-recorded up to 50 concurrent; STT streaming up to 150; TTS REST up to 15; TTS streaming up to 45", "notes": "No card and no expiration on the credit. Data catch: the Model Improvement Program is opt-OUT — send mip_opt_out=true per request to keep your data out of training. Native REST/WebSocket API, not OpenAI-compatible.", "best_for": "Biggest free credit here, for speech (STT/TTS)", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://deepgram.com/pricing", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "assemblyai", "name": "AssemblyAI", "category": "trial", "free_type": "trial-credit", "free_tier": "$50 free credit on signup (no card) — pre-recorded & streaming speech-to-text, Speech Understanding, and an OpenAI-compatible LLM Gateway (25+ models)", "rate_limits": "Free tier: 5 parallel transcriptions; streaming 5 new streams/min; global 20k requests / 5 min", "notes": "One-time credit, not renewing. Catch: the default model differs between free and paid accounts — set speech_models explicitly to avoid cost jumps on upgrade. Only the LLM Gateway is OpenAI-compatible.", "best_for": "Free speech-to-text plus an OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway", "modalities": [ "audio", "text" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.assemblyai.com/pricing", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://llm-gateway.assemblyai.com/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "mixedbread", "name": "Mixedbread", "category": "trial", "free_type": "trial-credit", "free_tier": "Starter plan: $5 one-time credit (no card) — embeddings (mxbai-embed-large-v1), reranking, and multimodal search over PDF/image/doc/code", "rate_limits": "Starter plan: 100 requests/min", "notes": "Free credit is usage-based and non-renewing; usage-based pricing applies afterward. Native REST API, not documented as OpenAI-compatible. No card required.", "best_for": "No-card embeddings & rerank credit", "modalities": [ "text", "embeddings", "rerank", "image" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.mixedbread.com/pricing", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "clarifai", "name": "Clarifai", "category": "trial", "free_type": "trial-credit", "free_tier": "One-time $5 credit across serverless models (GPT-OSS-120B, Claude, Llama), vision, embeddings and image generation", "rate_limits": "15 requests/second global default (CONN_THROTTLED on exceed)", "notes": "Catch: SMS phone verification is required to claim the $5. Credit is one-time and expires 30 days after grant; a card is required to recharge afterward.", "best_for": "Multimodal (LLM + vision) models on a $5 credit", "modalities": [ "text", "vision", "embeddings", "image" ], "models_free": null, "expires": "30 days", "docs_url": "https://docs.clarifai.com/control/account-billing/", "phone_required": true, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://api.clarifai.com/v2/ext/openai/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "arli-ai", "name": "Arli AI", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "Free plan ($0): access to all text LLMs (Gemma, Qwen, etc.), capped at ~5 requests per 2-day window, 12K context, 1 request at a time", "rate_limits": "1 request at a time; ~5 requests per 2 days across all models; max 12K context; delayed responses", "notes": "Free tier is for testing only — very restrictive. Provider advertises zero-log / no data retention. Card requirement for the free tier is not stated on the pricing page.", "best_for": "A permanently-free (heavily rate-limited) test tier", "modalities": [ "text" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.arliai.com/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://api.arliai.com/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "ollama-cloud", "name": "Ollama Cloud", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "$0 Free plan: access to cloud-hosted open models (Qwen, GPT-OSS, DeepSeek, etc.) via API", "rate_limits": "Session limits reset every 5 hours and weekly limits every 7 days; 1 concurrent cloud model on the free plan (exact token caps not published)", "notes": "First-party — Ollama hosts the cloud models. Requires an ollama.com account + API key (`ollama signin`); the free plan is for light usage, Pro ($20/mo) raises limits. No card required.", "best_for": "Cloud-hosted open models with the Ollama workflow, no card", "modalities": [ "text", "vision" ], "models_free": [ "deepseek-v4-flash", "deepseek-v4-pro", "gemma4:31b", "glm-5.1", "glm-5.2", "gpt-oss:120b", "gpt-oss:20b", "kimi-k2.5" ], "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://docs.ollama.com/cloud", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://ollama.com/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "ai-horde", "name": "AI Horde", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "perpetual", "free_tier": "Free crowdsourced text & image generation; anonymous API key '0000000000' (no registration), or register to earn kudos for priority", "rate_limits": "Queue-based priority via kudos (no fixed quota); anonymous requests get lowest priority under load", "notes": "Community-powered volunteer network — model availability and speed vary with worker supply, so it is not a fixed-SLA service. No card, no phone. Kudos never expire and cannot be sold.", "best_for": "Anonymous, no-signup free generation (variable speed)", "modalities": [ "text", "image" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://aihorde.net/", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "modelscope", "name": "ModelScope (API-Inference)", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "~2,000 free API calls/day across open-weight models (Qwen3, DeepSeek, GLM, Llama, etc.) via API-Inference", "rate_limits": "~2,000 calls/day; concurrency/QPS caps applied and dynamically adjusted", "notes": "Alibaba's model hub — a different product from Alibaba Model Studio. Requires a ModelScope account bound to an Alibaba Cloud account with real-name (ID) verification — a practical barrier for non-China users. Explicitly non-commercial (\"for developers to experience\"). No card.", "best_for": "Free daily calls to many open models (real-name verification required)", "modalities": [ "text", "vision" ], "models_free": [ "LLM-Research/Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct", "MedAIBase/AntAngelMed", "MiniMax/MiniMax-M1-80k", "MusePublic/Qwen-Image-Edit", "OpenGVLab/InternVL3_5-241B-A28B", "PaddlePaddle/ERNIE-4.5-0.3B-PT", "Qwen/Qwen-Image-Edit", "Shanghai_AI_Laboratory/Intern-S1" ], "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.modelscope.cn/docs/model-service/API-Inference/intro", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": false, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://api-inference.modelscope.cn/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "pollinations", "name": "Pollinations.ai", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "perpetual", "free_tier": "Free hosted image models (Flux, Turbo, Stable Diffusion) via a simple GET URL; also text and audio. No signup required to start", "rate_limits": "Anonymous ~1 request / 15s; free registration (Seed tier) ~1 request / 5s", "notes": "Anonymous free images may carry a watermark (since 2025); free registration removes it via the nologo parameter. No card, no phone. Commercial use is not explicitly guaranteed in the docs.", "best_for": "No-signup free image generation (Flux/SD)", "modalities": [ "image", "text", "audio" ], "models_free": [ "openai-fast" ], "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://github.com/pollinations/pollinations/blob/master/APIDOCS.md", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "runware", "name": "Runware", "category": "trial", "free_type": "trial-credit", "free_tier": "$2 in signup credits across first-party image models (FLUX.1/FLUX.2, Stable Diffusion 3, SDXL) on the Sonic Inference Engine — hundreds to thousands of generations", "rate_limits": "Not publicly specified; per-account concurrency applies", "notes": "The $2 requires signup with a business email (personal/free-mail domains may be rejected); one-time, non-renewing. No watermark, no card, commercial use allowed. The OpenAI-compatible endpoint is chat-only, not for images.", "best_for": "Fast image models with a $2 no-card credit", "modalities": [ "image" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://runware.ai/pricing", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "pinecone-inference", "name": "Pinecone Inference", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "Starter (free) plan: 5M tokens/mo for embedding models (llama-text-embed-v2, multilingual-e5-large) and 500 requests/mo for the bge-reranker-v2-m3 rerank model", "rate_limits": "5M embedding tokens/mo; 500 rerank requests/mo on Starter", "notes": "Free rerank limited to bge-reranker-v2-m3; overages are pay-as-you-go. Not OpenAI-compatible. No card required.", "best_for": "Free embeddings + rerank for RAG (5M tokens/mo)", "modalities": [ "embeddings", "rerank" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.pinecone.io/pricing/", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "twelve-labs", "name": "Twelve Labs (Marengo Embed)", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "Free plan: the Marengo Embed API for all input types (video, audio, image, text) at no cost, plus ~600 min indexing", "rate_limits": "Embed video/audio: 3,000 RPD, 25 RPM; embed text/image: 3,000 RPD, 600 RPM", "notes": "No credit card for the Free plan, but indexed data expires after 90 days unless upgraded. Marengo produces multimodal embeddings. Not OpenAI-compatible.", "best_for": "Free multimodal (video/audio/image/text) embeddings", "modalities": [ "embeddings", "vision", "audio", "text" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.twelvelabs.io/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "ocr-space", "name": "OCR.space", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "25,000 conversions/month (Engine 1 & 2) plus 2,500 Engine 3 conversions/month; max 1 MB file, PDFs up to 3 pages", "rate_limits": "500 requests per day per IP address", "notes": "Free searchable-PDF output carries a watermark (raw text extraction is unrestricted); the free key needs only an email, no card. Commercial use permitted.", "best_for": "Classic free OCR (25k conversions/mo, no card)", "modalities": [ "ocr", "text" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://ocr.space/OCRAPI", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "llamaparse", "name": "LlamaParse (LlamaCloud)", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "Free plan: 10,000 credits/month (~10,000 pages in balanced parse mode at 1 credit/page)", "rate_limits": "5 concurrent jobs; 1 project; 5 indexes on the free plan", "notes": "Credit-based (1,000 credits = $1.25); premium parse modes consume more credits per page. No card required. Document parsing for RAG (LlamaIndex).", "best_for": "Free document parsing for RAG (~10k pages/mo)", "modalities": [ "ocr", "text" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.llamaindex.ai/pricing", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "nanonets", "name": "Nanonets", "category": "trial", "free_type": "trial-credit", "free_tier": "$50 in free credits on signup (one-time) across data-extraction / OCR workflows", "rate_limits": "Up to 3 users on the free credit", "notes": "One-time signup credit, not renewing; no credit card required to start. Paid plans start at $100/month afterwards.", "best_for": "Document extraction on a $50 no-card credit", "modalities": [ "ocr", "text" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://nanonets.com/pricing", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "moondream", "name": "Moondream Cloud", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "recurring-credit", "free_tier": "$5/month usage credits in every workspace (Free plan) for the Moondream vision model — caption, query (VQA), detect, point", "rate_limits": "Bounded by the $5/month credit", "notes": "Recurring $5/month credit; card requirement not stated on the pricing page; commercial terms not specified. OpenAI-compatible endpoint.", "best_for": "Tiny vision model, OpenAI-compatible, monthly free credit", "modalities": [ "vision" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://moondream.ai/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://api.moondream.ai/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "speechmatics", "name": "Speechmatics", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "3,000 minutes (50 hours)/month speech-to-text + 1,000,000 characters (~20 hrs)/month text-to-speech", "rate_limits": "2 concurrent real-time sessions on the free plan", "notes": "No credit card required to start; add a card only when you exceed the free limit. Recurring monthly allowance covering both STT and TTS. Commercial-use permission not explicitly stated on the pricing page.", "best_for": "Best free STT tier (50 hrs/mo, no card)", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.speechmatics.com/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "speechify", "name": "Speechify API", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "50,000 characters/month TTS (hard cap) + 60 min/month voice agents", "rate_limits": "3 concurrent calls; hard cap pauses at the limit (no overages)", "notes": "Commercial use is allowed on the free tier. No credit card required. Hard monthly cap that pauses at the limit.", "best_for": "Free commercial TTS (50k chars/mo)", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://speechify.ai/pricing", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": null, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "hume-ai", "name": "Hume AI (Octave TTS)", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "10,000 characters/month TTS (~10 minutes) on the Free plan", "rate_limits": "15 requests per minute", "notes": "The free plan includes a commercial license; overage billed at $0.15/1,000 chars. No card stated as required to start. Not OpenAI-compatible.", "best_for": "Expressive TTS with a commercial free tier", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.hume.ai/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "unreal-speech", "name": "Unreal Speech", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "250,000 characters/month TTS (~6 hours of audio)", "rate_limits": "Tiered endpoints for different text lengths; specific caps not documented", "notes": "Commercial use allowed, but free-plan users must attribute Unreal Speech with a link when publishing audio. First-party REST endpoints. Card requirement not stated.", "best_for": "Largest free TTS (250k chars/mo, attribution)", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://unrealspeech.com/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": true, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "elevenlabs", "name": "ElevenLabs", "category": "ongoing", "free_type": "renewing-quota", "free_tier": "10,000 credits/month shared across Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text and more (~10 min TTS/month)", "rate_limits": "Concurrency tied to the Free plan (not numerically published)", "notes": "The free tier is NON-COMMERCIAL only per the Terms of Use (a commercial license begins on paid Starter, $6/mo), and historically required attribution. API access is available on the free plan. No credit card to sign up.", "best_for": "Best-known TTS voices (free tier is non-commercial)", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://elevenlabs.io/pricing", "phone_required": false, "card_required": false, "commercial_ok": false, "openai_compatible": false, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "sarvam-ai", "name": "Sarvam AI", "category": "trial", "free_type": "trial-credit", "free_tier": "₹100 in free credits on signup, usable across all APIs including the Sarvam-M chat/LLM API and speech (STT/TTS)", "rate_limits": "Not published; bounded by the ₹100 credit", "notes": "One-time signup credit shared across all APIs; card/phone requirement not stated on the docs. India-focused provider (pricing in INR), strong Indic-language models.", "best_for": "Indic-language chat + speech via one OpenAI-compatible key", "modalities": [ "text", "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://docs.sarvam.ai/api/getting-started/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://api.sarvam.ai/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "gladia", "name": "Gladia", "category": "trial", "free_type": "trial-credit", "free_tier": "€50 in free credits on signup for speech-to-text (~80+ hrs pre-recorded or 60+ hrs real-time at current rates)", "rate_limits": "Not published; bounded by the €50 credit", "notes": "One-time grant with no monthly reset; prepaid model — top up once the credit is consumed. Card requirement not explicitly stated on the pricing page.", "best_for": "High-accuracy async + real-time transcription to trial", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://www.gladia.io/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": null, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "rime", "name": "Rime", "category": "trial", "free_type": "trial-credit", "free_tier": "3,000 free TTS minutes for every new account (Starter plan)", "rate_limits": "Starter: 20 concurrent TTS generations", "notes": "One-time allotment on signup; card requirement and commercial-use terms for the free minutes are not stated on the pricing page.", "best_for": "Low-latency conversational TTS to prototype", "modalities": [ "audio" ], "models_free": null, "expires": null, "docs_url": "https://rime.ai/pricing", "phone_required": null, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": null, "openai_base_url": null, "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" }, { "slug": "tencent-hunyuan", "name": "Tencent Hunyuan", "category": "trial", "free_type": "trial-credit", "free_tier": "1,000,000 free tokens for Hunyuan text LLMs (hunyuan-a13b, turbos, translation & vision models), plus a separate 1,000,000-token allotment for hunyuan-embedding", "rate_limits": "Not published; bounded by the token package", "notes": "Free resource package valid 1 year from activation; unused tokens expire. Tencent Cloud generally requires mainland-China real-name ID verification to activate — a practical barrier for non-China users. Commercial-use terms not stated on the free-quota page.", "best_for": "Chinese-language LLM workloads via an OpenAI-compatible endpoint", "modalities": [ "text", "vision", "embeddings" ], "models_free": null, "expires": "1 year", "docs_url": "https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/1729/97731", "phone_required": null, "card_required": null, "commercial_ok": null, "openai_compatible": true, "openai_base_url": "https://api.hunyuan.cloud.tencent.com/v1", "verified": true, "last_verified": "2026-07-30" } ] }