A categorized, community-maintained directory of free LLM & AI APIs.
Free API Bazaar (formerly awesome free LLM API resources) is a living catalog of providers that offer free or free-tier access to LLMs, image, audio, video, embeddings, and multimodal models — with their real limits, OpenAI-compatibility, and signup links. The most generous picks are surfaced in featured/.
⭐ Featured — top picks, surfaced at the very front.
| Category | About |
|---|---|
| Audio: TTS & STT | Free text-to-speech and speech-to-text APIs. |
| Code Models | Free code-generation and completion APIs. |
| Embeddings | Free embedding / vector APIs. |
| Free LLM Inference | Providers offering genuinely-free (no card) LLM text inference. |
| Free Trials & Credits | Providers with meaningful free trial credits or perpetual free tiers. |
| Gateways & Routers | Free aggregators/routers (e.g. OpenRouter free tier) fronting many models. |
| Image Generation | Free text-to-image and image-editing APIs. |
| Local & Self-Hosted | Run-it-yourself options that are free at the API layer (Ollama, etc.). |
| Miscellaneous | Other free AI APIs. |
| OpenAI-Compatible | Free endpoints that speak the OpenAI API format (drop-in base_url). |
| Rate-Limit Notes | Community-maintained notes on limits, gotchas, and reliability. |
| Video Generation | Free text-to-video / video APIs. |
| Vision & Multimodal | Free vision and multimodal model APIs. |
Every free APIs lives in its own sub-folder inside a category, with a README.md recording its source, author, and original license (a full copy of the files is kept). See CONTRIBUTING.md.
- Submit via the form (easiest), or open a PR.
- Attribution is mandatory — see CONTRIBUTING.md.
Repository structure and original text: MIT (see LICENSE). Each collected free APIs retains its original author's license; entries record their source. If you're an author and want a change, open an issue.
Part of the Mega AI Bazaar — the front door to all the bazaars.