# awesome-free-ai-coding

> Legal free LLM APIs and coding agents for AI coding — free tiers, no-card trials and free models, probe-verified twice a week against live model catalogs and pricing pages. Generated 2026-09-18 from the registry; every offer under the first four headings answered its last probe.

Each offer links to a page with the free tier in the vendor's own words, the connection details (base URL, where to get a key, model ids, an Anthropic-format URL where the vendor documents one), the evidence the probe reads and the row's history. "No card" means the vendor asks for no payment method; "no key" means the endpoint answers without an account. Offers the list carried and carries no more are listed last, under Archived, each with why it left.

## Coding agents & CLIs

- [opencode](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/opencode/): Open-source coding agent whose opencode Zen gateway prices a rotating set of models at zero — Big Pickle, MiMo-V2.5, Ling 3.0 Flash Fin, Nemotron 3 Ultra, Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor — inside OpenCode only, no sign-in; any provider via BYOK; no card; free models: `big-pickle`, `mimo-v2.5`, `ling-3.0-flash-fin`, `nemotron-3-ultra`, `nemotron-3.5-lightning`, `muse-spark-1.3-contributor`
- [Kilo Code](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/kilo-code/): Open-source VS Code / JetBrains / CLI agent whose $0 plan routes "Auto Free" to the models the Kilo Gateway marks free; the same gateway serves them to any OpenAI client without a key, with BYOK and local models alongside; no card; no key; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.kilo.ai/api/gateway; free models: `nemotron-3-ultra`, `nemotron-3-super`, `north-mini-code`, `step-3.7-flash`, `laguna-s-2.1`, `laguna-xs-2.1`
- [Google Antigravity](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/antigravity/): Google's agent-first IDE and CLI, and where the Gemini CLI free tier went — Gemini CLI and the Code Assist IDE extensions stopped serving free, AI Pro and Ultra users on 2026-06-18. The $0 Individual plan carries the same agent models the paid ones do; no card; free models: `gemini-3.1-pro`, `gemini-3.8-flash`, `gemini-3.7-flash`, `gemini-3.6-flash`, `claude-opus-4.6`, `claude-sonnet-4.6`, `gpt-oss`
- [Freebuff](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/freebuff/): Ad-funded coding agent — CLI, desktop, web, cloud and chat — with no API key and no card; GLM 5.3 Flash by default, with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GPT-5.6 Luna and MiMo 2.5 in the picker; no card; free models: `glm-5.3-flash`, `deepseek-v4.1-flash`, `gpt-5.6-luna`, `mimo-v2.5`
- [Cline](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/cline/): Open-source coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal; signing in to its own Cline provider unlocks a rotating set of free models, each with a daily allowance, beside pay-as-you-go credits, the $9.99 ClinePass plan and BYOK; no card; free models: `laguna-s-2.1`; provisional since 2026-09-14
- [OpenAI Codex CLI](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/openai-codex-cli/): Open-source coding CLI, free by signing in with a $0 ChatGPT Free account; local coding tasks included on all plans; no card; free models: `gpt-5.6`
- [Amazon Q Developer](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/amazon-q-developer/): AWS's coding assistant in the IDE and the CLI; its perpetual Free Tier gives a Builder ID user 50 agentic requests a month; no card; provisional since 2026-09-16
- [Crush + Charm Hyper](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/charm-hyper/): Charm's Crush terminal agent with Hyper, its official hosted model gateway; the free plan includes monthly Hypercredits, zero data retention; no card
- [CodeGPT](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/codegpt/): VS Code / JetBrains coding agent whose $0 plan includes model usage rather than only BYOK — a small daily allowance on its own Economy models, plus BYOK across 15+ providers and local models (Ollama, LM Studio) beside it; no card

## LLM APIs with free tier

- [Google AI Studio (Gemini API)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/google-ai-studio/): Free tier on the Gemini API, priced model by model rather than as one account quota; no card; key from https://aistudio.google.com/apikey; OpenAI-compatible at https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai/; free models: `gemini-3.8-flash`, `gemini-3.7-flash`, `gemini-3.5-flash-lite`, `gemini-2.5-pro`
- [Groq](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/groq-free/): Fast inference against a free plan Groq publishes as a per-model rate table; no card; key from https://console.groq.com/keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.groq.com/openai/v1; free models: `gpt-oss`, `qwen3.6`, `qwen3.8-27b`
- [Z.ai (Zhipu GLM)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/zai-glm/): GLM Flash models free on the API, vision included (OpenAI-compatible at api.z.ai/api/paas/v4); no card; key from https://z.ai/manage-apikey/apikey-list; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.z.ai/api/paas/v4; Anthropic Messages at https://api.z.ai/api/anthropic; free models: `glm-4.7-flash`, `glm-4.5-flash`, `glm-4.6v-flash`
- [Cloudflare Workers AI](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/cloudflare-workers-ai/): 10k neurons/day free; no card; key from https://dash.cloudflare.com/profile/api-tokens; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/ai/v1; free models: `llama-4`
- [LLM7.io](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/llm7/): OpenAI-compatible API with an anonymous tier — no account, no key — of 500,000 tokens a day on its turbo models, GLM 5.3 Flash, MiniMax M2.7 and Codestral among them; a free token doubles it; no card; no key; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.llm7.io/v1; provisional since 2026-09-16
- [SambaNova Cloud](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/sambanova-cloud/): Open models on SambaNova's RDU hardware, OpenAI-compatible; the free tier is the one that applies while no payment method is linked, so linking a card is what ends it; no card; key from https://cloud.sambanova.ai/apis; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.sambanova.ai/v1; free models: `deepseek`, `gpt-oss`, `gemma-4`
- [Hetzner Inference API](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/hetzner-inference/): OpenAI-compatible API on Hetzner's own EU hardware, free for as long as the experiment runs; no card; key from https://experiments.hetzner.com/inference; OpenAI-compatible at https://inference.hetzner.com/api/v1; free models: `qwen3.6`, `qwen3.8-27b`
- [Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope, international)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/alibaba-model-studio/): Free quota for Qwen models on DashScope, international (Singapore) region; OpenAI-compatible; no card; key from https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.com; OpenAI-compatible at https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1; free models: `qwen3.8-max`, `qwen3-max`, `qwen3-coder`
- [NVIDIA NIM (build.nvidia.com)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/nvidia-nim/): Free hosted NIM endpoints for 100+ models via the free NVIDIA Developer Program (OpenAI-compatible at integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1); no card; key from https://build.nvidia.com; OpenAI-compatible at https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1; free models: `nemotron`
- [Cohere (trial keys)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/cohere/): Cohere Command models via free trial API keys that never expire, plus North Mini Code — a 30B/3B Apache-2.0 coding model Cohere prices at zero on every key type; no card; key from https://dashboard.cohere.com/api-keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.cohere.com/compatibility/v1; free models: `command-a`, `north-mini-code`
- [Mistral AI Studio](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/mistral-free/): Mistral's Free plan — API keys with $10 a month of included usage, shared by the API, Studio and the Vibe coding CLI, no card; no card; key from https://console.mistral.ai/api-keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.mistral.ai/v1
- [VLM Run Gateway](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/vlm-run-gateway/): OpenAI-compatible gateway for vision and language models whose models on VLM Run's own GPUs, Qwen3.8 27B among them, answer anonymous callers — no signup, no key — at 100 requests a day per IP, in alpha; no card; no key; OpenAI-compatible at https://gateway.vlm.run/v1/openai; free models: `qwen3.8-27b`; provisional since 2026-09-17
- [OVHcloud AI Endpoints](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/ovh-ai-endpoints/): EU-hosted serverless open-model API whose anonymous lane needs no signup, no key and no card (OpenAI-compatible); no card; no key; OpenAI-compatible at https://oai.endpoints.kepler.ai.cloud.ovh.net/v1; free models: `gpt-oss`, `qwen3.6`, `qwen3.8-27b`, `qwen3-coder`
- [SEA-LION (AI Singapore)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/sea-lion/): AI Singapore's open Southeast-Asian model family behind a first-party OpenAI-compatible API — the vendor hosting its own weights rather than a gateway reselling somebody else's; no card; key from https://playground.sea-lion.ai/key-manager; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.sea-lion.ai/v1
- [OpenTyphoon (SCB 10X)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/opentyphoon/): Thai-tuned open models from SCB 10X, the venture arm of Siam Commercial Bank, behind an OpenAI-compatible API whose FAQ calls it a research showcase and free to use; no card; key from https://playground.opentyphoon.ai/api-key; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.opentyphoon.ai/v1; provisional since 2026-09-05
- [Agnes AI](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/agnes-ai/): Agnes AI's own models behind an OpenAI-compatible API, with its Flash text models charged at zero today and image generation free beside them; no card; key from https://platform.agnes-ai.com; OpenAI-compatible at https://apihub.agnes-ai.com/v1; free models: `agnes-3.0-flash`, `agnes-2.5-flash`; provisional since 2026-09-14
- [SenseNova (SenseTime 商汤)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/sensenova/): SenseTime's own SenseNova models behind an OpenAI-compatible url, free for everyone while the token plan is in public beta; no card; key from https://platform.sensenova.cn; OpenAI-compatible at https://token.sensenova.cn/v1
- [Tencent Cloud TokenHub](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/tencent-tokenhub/): Tencent Cloud's model platform — Hy3, Kimi K3, GLM-5.3 and MiniMax-M3 among its models — with a one-time grant of a million tokens on its language models, valid a year and no card, on an account that has passed Tencent Cloud real-name verification; no card; key from https://console.cloud.tencent.com/tokenhub/apikey; OpenAI-compatible at https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com/v1; Anthropic Messages at https://tokenhub.tencentmaas.com; provisional since 2026-09-17
- [Pollinations.AI](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/pollinations/): Open GenAI text API, no signup, OpenAI-compatible (POST text.pollinations.ai/openai); no card; no key; OpenAI-compatible at https://text.pollinations.ai/openai; free models: `gpt-oss`
- [FreeInference (Harvard SEAS)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/freeinference/): Harvard SEAS's MadSys Lab serving open models — DeepSeek V4 Flash, GLM-5.1, GLM 5.3 Flash, MiniMax M3, Qwen3.6 35B — free to every account behind both an OpenAI-shaped and an Anthropic-shaped endpoint, with a documented Claude Code setup; no card; key from https://freeinference.org; OpenAI-compatible at https://freeinference.org/v1; Anthropic Messages at https://freeinference.org/anthropic; free models: `deepseek-v4-flash`, `glm-5.1`, `glm-5.3-flash`, `minimax-m3`, `qwen3.6`; provisional since 2026-09-05
- [Ollama Cloud](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/ollama-cloud/): Cloud-hosted open models on a $0 plan that grants starter usage credits for a starter subset of the catalog; no card; key from https://ollama.com/settings/keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://ollama.com/v1
- [Poolside Platform](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/poolside/): Free self-serve developer access to the Laguna coding models, direct from the vendor whose models this list already carries second-hand through OpenRouter and Kilo Gateway; no card; key from https://platform.poolside.ai; OpenAI-compatible at https://inference.poolside.ai/v1
- [uncloseai (unturf)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/uncloseai/): Keyless OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint — no signup, no key, no account; no card; no key; OpenAI-compatible at https://hermes.ai.unturf.com/v1
- [IBM watsonx.ai (Lite plan)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/ibm-watsonx-ai/): IBM's watsonx.ai Runtime on its Lite plan — 300,000 tokens a month of foundation-model inference (Granite, Llama, Mistral and other hosted models) on IBM Cloud, a plan IBM's own docs call free and never bill; card required; key from https://cloud.ibm.com/iam/apikeys; API at https://us-south.ml.cloud.ibm.com/ml/v1; provisional since 2026-09-05
- [Arli AI](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/arli-ai/): OpenAI-compatible inference on open models and their fine-tunes, whose Free plan tries each model five times every two days at 12K tokens of context, one request at a time; no card; key from https://www.arliai.com/account; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.arliai.com/v1; provisional since 2026-09-17
- [Bytez](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/bytez/): Serverless API over open models, whose Free plan grants $1 of credit every four weeks for open models of up to 7B parameters, one request at a time, with no billing; no card; key from https://bytez.com/api; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.bytez.com/models/v2/openai/v1; provisional since 2026-09-17
- [Mixlayer](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/mixlayer/): Serverless open models priced per token, with one of them at $0 — Qwen3.5 4B as qwen/qwen3.5-4b-free, at 131K context — callable without prepaid credit; no card; key from https://console.mixlayer.com/app/api-keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://models.mixlayer.ai/v1; free models: `qwen3.5-4b`; provisional since 2026-09-17
- [Yolo-Auto](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/yolo-auto/): One model, Qwen3.8 Flash — Qwen's open-weight Qwen3.8-Flash-Next — served on the vendor's own flat-rate API for coding agents; the free plan is a small daily allowance with no card; no card; key from https://yolo-auto.com/app; OpenAI-compatible at https://yolo-auto.com/v1; free models: `qwen3.8-flash`; provisional since 2026-09-14

## Trials (no card when possible)

- [GitHub Copilot Free](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/github-copilot-free/): Free Copilot plan for individual developers in VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio and CLI; completions, limited chat and agent usage; no card
- [Kiro](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/kiro/): Perpetual free tier of AWS's spec-driven agentic IDE (successor to Amazon Q Developer) with Claude Sonnet 4.5 and open-weight models; no card; free models: `claude-sonnet-4.5`, `qwen3-coder`, `deepseek-v3.2`, `minimax-2.1`
- [Google Jules](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/google-jules/): Free tier of Google's async cloud coding agent powered by Gemini 2.5 Pro; connects to GitHub repos and works autonomously; no card; free models: `gemini-2.5`
- [Cursor (Hobby)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/cursor-hobby/): Permanent free Hobby plan of the Cursor AI IDE with limited Agent requests and Tab completions, no credit card; no card
- [Devin Desktop (formerly Windsurf)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/windsurf/): Free plan of Cognition's desktop coding agent — the IDE that shipped as Windsurf; no card
- [JetBrains AI (AI Free)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/jetbrains-ai/): AI Free in JetBrains IDEs — unlimited code completion on JetBrains' Mellum model and 3 AI Credits ($3) of cloud models every 30 days for chat and agents; no card; provisional since 2026-09-14
- [Qoder](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/qoder/): Alibaba's agentic coding IDE + CLI; Pro trial with credits on signup, then a free plan with basic models; no card
- [CodeBuddy (Tencent)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/codebuddy/): Tencent's VS Code / JetBrains / CLI coding agent whose Free plan carries 100 credits a month, a daily activity bonus of 30 and 250 welcome credits, with every model open while the promotion runs; no card
- [Trae](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/trae/): AI IDE whose Free plan runs Auto mode only — no model choice — on a monthly Basic usage allowance of a few dollars and 5,000 autocompletions; no card
- [Regolo AI](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/regolo/): EU (Italian) zero-retention inference; a month of full model access on a daily token allowance, no card; no card; key from https://dashboard.regolo.ai; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.regolo.ai/v1; free models: `glm-5`, `gpt-oss`, `qwen3.8-27b`, `llama-3.3`, `apertus-70b`
- [Upstage (Solar API)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/upstage/): Upstage Solar LLM API; $10 free credit on signup, no card; no card; key from https://console.upstage.ai/api-keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.upstage.ai/v1; free models: `solar-pro-3`, `solar-mini`
- [Zed](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/zed/): Open-source code editor with a hosted AI agent: a 14-day Pro trial with $5 of GPT-5.6 Luna and unlimited edit predictions, no card, then 2,000 accepted edit predictions on the $0 Personal plan; no card; free models: `gpt-5.6-luna`; provisional since 2026-09-16
- [Qodo](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/qodo/): Agentic PR code review plus Git and IDE integrations on a 14-day Pro Team trial with unlimited reviews and credits and no card; no card
- [The Grid](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/the-grid/): OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible inference market that sells quality tiers rather than model names — Agent Max was served by Claude Opus 5 in the 30 days to 2026-09-03 — with a $25 signup credit, for a limited time; no card; key from https://app.thegrid.ai/profile; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.thegrid.ai/v1; Anthropic Messages at https://messages-beta.api.thegrid.ai; provisional since 2026-09-17
- [Sarvam AI](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/sarvam/): India's Sarvam AI credits every new account ₹100 that never expire, spendable on any of its APIs — including its own Sarvam-105B chat model on an OpenAI-shaped endpoint; no card; key from https://dashboard.sarvam.ai; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.sarvam.ai/v1; free models: `sarvam-105b`; provisional since 2026-09-05
- [HPC-AI Model APIs](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/hpc-ai/): OpenAI-compatible APIs over 24 models, GLM 5.3 Flash, Kimi K3 and MiniMax M3 among them, with $2 of free credit for every user — $4 with the vendor's invite code — at 5 requests a minute until a first deposit; no card; key from https://www.hpc-ai.com/models-console/api-key; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.hpc-ai.com/inference/v1; provisional since 2026-09-17
- [Inception Labs (Mercury)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/inception-labs/): A signup grant on the Mercury diffusion models — Mercury 2.5 and Mercury 2 for chat, Mercury Edit 2 for fill-in-the-middle and code edits; the last is the reason this row is here, since an FIM endpoint is what an IDE completion plugin actually calls; no card; key from https://platform.inceptionlabs.ai; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.inceptionlabs.ai/v1; free models: `mercury-2.5`, `mercury-2`, `mercury-edit-2`
- [Blue Claw Network](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/blue-claw/): OpenAI-compatible endpoint that routes calls to a network of independent GPU operators running open models; every new account starts with a $5 welcome credit, and no card is asked to start; no card; key from https://portal.blueclaw.network/; OpenAI-compatible at https://openai.blueclaw.network/v1; provisional since 2026-09-17
- [Fireworks AI](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/fireworks-ai/): Serverless inference on open-weight models — Kimi K3, GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash among them — with a one-time $1 of credit that is spent without a card, at 10 requests a minute until a payment method is added; no card; key from https://app.fireworks.ai/settings/users/api-keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.fireworks.ai/inference/v1; Anthropic Messages at https://api.fireworks.ai/inference; provisional since 2026-09-17
- [RouterPlex](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/routerplex/): A one-time $1 of test credit on a prepaid reseller that bills 54 chat models at vendor list prices with 0% markup, no card — one key on both wires, OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions and an Anthropic Messages base Claude Code takes as it is; no card; key from https://routerplex.com/sign-up; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.routerplex.com/v1; Anthropic Messages at https://api.routerplex.com; provisional since 2026-09-11
- [abliteration.ai](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/abliteration-ai/): OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible API for three uncensored reasoning models, the large one derived from GLM-5.3, that opens with a one-credit free preview and no card; no card; key from https://abliteration.ai/console; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.abliteration.ai/v1; Anthropic Messages at https://api.abliteration.ai; provisional since 2026-09-17
- [Impossibl](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/impossibl/): Prepaid gateway at provider list prices over 128 models, Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek and GLM among them, whose keyless sign-up funds an account with $0.05 and adds $1 once a person claims it by email — no card; no card; key from https://impossibl.com/dashboard; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.impossibl.com/v1; Anthropic Messages at https://api.impossibl.com; provisional since 2026-09-17
- [Standard Compute](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/standardcompute/): A one-time $0.25 of smart-routed compute on a flat-rate agent gateway, no card — a real key on both wires, OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions and an Anthropic Messages base Claude Code takes as it is; no card; key from https://standardcompute.com/signup; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.stdcmpt.com/v1; Anthropic Messages at https://api.stdcmpt.com; provisional since 2026-09-07

## Aggregators (one key, many providers)

- [OpenRouter (free models)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/openrouter-free/): One API key for a rotating set of :free model variants, open-weight and stealth models among them; no card; key from https://openrouter.ai/settings/keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://openrouter.ai/api/v1; Anthropic Messages at https://openrouter.ai/api; free models: `nemotron-3-ultra`, `gemma-4`
- [Requesty](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/requesty/): OpenAI-compatible router over a 690+ model catalog with routing, caching and fallbacks; twelve rows in it are priced 0 and the free plan is the same gateway restricted to those; no card; key from https://app.requesty.ai/api-keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://router.requesty.ai/v1; Anthropic Messages at https://router.requesty.ai; free models: `nemotron-3-ultra`, `nemotron-3-super`, `gemma-4`, `ling-3.0-tiny`, `muse-glimmer-30b`, `nemotron-3.5-lightning`
- [AIHubMix (free models)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/aihubmix/): One OpenAI-compatible gateway over 800+ models, dozens of which the platform prices at 0 and subsidises itself — GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3 coding routes among them — with an Anthropic-format /v1/messages too, so a free id can back Claude Code; no card; key from https://aihubmix.com/token; OpenAI-compatible at https://aihubmix.com/v1; Anthropic Messages at https://aihubmix.com; free models: `glm-5.3`, `kimi-k3`, `glm-5`, `mimo-v2.5`, `north-mini-code`, `gpt-oss`
- [Routeway](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/routeway/): OpenAI-compatible gateway whose :free lane rotates — three zero-priced ids on 2026-09-16, Meta's Muse Glimmer 30B, DeepSeek V4 Flash and MiniMax M2.7 — beside 257 metered rows in the same catalog; no card; key from https://routeway.ai/dashboard/keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.routeway.ai/v1; free models: `deepseek-v4-flash`, `minimax-m2.7`, `muse-glimmer-30b`
- [LLMTR](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/llmtr/): Turkish OpenAI-compatible gateway whose free rows answer on a zero balance — thirteen zero-priced chat ids on 2026-09-16, Nemotron 3 Ultra, Qwen3.6 27B and Agnes 3.0 Flash among them; no card; key from https://llmtr.com/dashboard/api-keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://llmtr.com/v1; free models: `nemotron-3-ultra`, `qwen3.6`
- [Vercel AI Gateway](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/vercel-ai-gateway/): One OpenAI-compatible endpoint for 360+ models, with $5 of gateway credits included every month and five language models that never touch the credit; no card; key from https://vercel.com/dashboard/ai-gateway/api-keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1; Anthropic Messages at https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh; free models: `laguna-s-2.1`, `ling-3.0-flash-fin`
- [BazaarLink](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/bazaarlink/): OpenAI-compatible gateway to a 173-id catalog whose free page counts two models on 2026-09-14 — Qwen3.7 Flash and DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 — beside the auto:free router; no card; key from https://bazaarlink.ai/keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.bazaarlink.ai/v1; free models: `qwen3.7-flash`
- [Nous Portal (Hermes Agent)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/nous-portal/): Nous Research's inference portal behind its Hermes Agent: a $0 Free plan limited to the models it prices at zero — eight on 2026-09-16, Step 3.7 Flash and Laguna S 2.1 among them — on an OpenAI-compatible API; no card; key from https://portal.nousresearch.com; OpenAI-compatible at https://inference-api.nousresearch.com/v1; free models: `step-3.7-flash`, `laguna-s-2.1`; provisional since 2026-09-16
- [TokenRouter (PaleBlueDot)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/tokenrouter/): One zero-priced id — Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, in the default group — inside a 140-row catalog that meters the rest; no card; key from https://www.tokenrouter.com/console/token; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.tokenrouter.com/v1; free models: `nemotron-3-nano-omni`
- [Token Harbor](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/token-harbor/): OpenAI-compatible gateway with a $0 plan: explicit :free ids for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Flash and MiMo V2.5 on a value-based allowance, no card; no card; key from https://tokenharbor.ai/dashboard/api-keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://tokenharbor.ai/v1; free models: `deepseek-v4.1-flash`, `mimo-v2.5`; provisional since 2026-09-16
- [Hugging Face Inference Providers](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/huggingface-inference/): Routed access to 200+ models across providers (Groq, Cerebras, Together, etc.) with a free HF account; no card; key from https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens; OpenAI-compatible at https://router.huggingface.co/v1
- [Opper](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/opper/): EU-hosted gateway over 700+ models whose free models — Gemma 4 31B and Gemma 4 26B on Google's route, Laguna S 2.1 and XS 2.1 through Poolside — answer an account with no card on file; every other model needs a card and credits; no card; key from https://platform.opper.ai/settings/api-keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat; Anthropic Messages at https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat; free models: `gemma-4-31b`; provisional since 2026-09-17
- [MegaNova](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/meganova/): OpenAI-compatible gateway whose no-card Tier 1 account gets 50 free requests a day on each of Mistral Small 3.2 and the house Manta routers — 550 a day across its free rows; no card; key from https://www.meganova.ai/api-keys; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.meganova.ai/v1; free models: `mistral-small-3.2`
- [Moark (Gitee AI)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/moark/): Gitee's model platform, formerly Gitee AI — 200+ open models behind OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs — whose free experience token gives every user 100 calls a day across its featured models, with nothing bought; no card; key from https://moark.com/dashboard/tokens; OpenAI-compatible at https://api.moark.com/v1; Anthropic Messages at https://moark.com/anthropic; provisional since 2026-09-17

## Archived

- [AI21 Labs (Jamba)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/ai21-labs/): no longer listed — vendor-announced shutdown on 2026-08-09
- [Aider](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/aider/): no longer listed — delisted on 2026-07-19: BYOK only — the tool is free and open source but bundles no model access of its own, and its docs send readers to other vendors' free tiers, which this list carries directly
- [Cerebras Inference](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/cerebras-free/): no longer listed — delisted on 2026-09-16: its only free offer was $5 of credit granted after a verified payment method is added, expiring in 30 days — a one-off credit behind a card, which CONTRIBUTING does not admit
- [DeepSeek Platform](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/deepseek/): no longer listed — delisted on 2026-07-27: the 5M-token signup grant was only ever reported by third parties, and DeepSeek's own pricing page prices every model and names no free grant
- [Easy GonkaAI API](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/easy-gonka-api/): no longer listed — delisted on 2026-07-19: rejected for cause — its /for-agents page carried a prompt injection aimed at AI agents (auto-signup, credential exfiltration, referral spam)
- [GitHub Models](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/github-models/): no longer listed — vendor-announced shutdown on 2026-06-16
- [Infomaniak AI Services](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/infomaniak-ai/): no longer listed — delisted on 2026-09-16: a one-month wallet of a million credits, and "A credit card is required to start using the API" — a one-off credit behind a card, which CONTRIBUTING does not admit
- [Kenari](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/kenari/): no longer listed — delisted on 2026-09-16: rejected for cause — the operator's own JavaScript bundle showed its capacity coming from pooled ChatGPT and Codex OAuth credentials, captcha solvers and a proxy pool that multiplies per-IP free quotas
- [LongCat API Platform](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/longcat/): no longer listed — delisted on 2026-08-14: the daily free quota was gone before the row was listed — the change log retired the Flash line on 2026-05-29 and switched billing on for LongCat-2.0 on 2026-06-30, and no LongCat page still published the 100K tokens a day
- [MiMo Code](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/mimo-code/): no longer listed — vendor-announced shutdown on 2026-07-26
- [MiMoCode](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/mimocode/): no longer listed — delisted on 2026-07-19: a placeholder from the list's first day — "Coding agent with free tier", limits "TBD by scout" — with no page behind the claim, taken off the same day as unverifiable
- [Novita AI](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/novita/): no longer listed — delisted on 2026-08-14: the free lane ended without an announcement — both models the row named free were billed, and not one of the 102 prices on novita.ai/pricing was zero
- [Puter.js (free LLM API)](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/puter-free/): no longer listed — delisted on 2026-07-19: a browser SDK billed to each end user's Puter account, with no HTTP endpoint a coding agent could call; the OpenAI-compatible endpoint read on 2026-09-14 needs a paid plan
- [Reka AI](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/reka/): no longer listed — delisted on 2026-08-11: the $10 of free credits a month rested on one dated announcement post; no live Reka page corroborated a recurring grant, and the platform sells pay-as-you-go credits
- [Scaleway Generative APIs](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/scaleway-generative/): no longer listed — delisted on 2026-09-16: 1,000,000 free tokens once per customer, and "Ordering Scaleway resources requires a valid credit card" — a one-off credit behind a card, which CONTRIBUTING does not admit

## Machine-readable

- [index.json](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/index.json): every row with its connection details and probe, plus the watchlist of services considered and not listed
- [feed.xml](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/feed.xml): Atom feed of every change — rows arriving, leaving and changing their free models
- [Provider pages](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/providers/): one page per row, live and archived
- [Filterable table](https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/browse.html): the same rows filtered by category, card, key and API format
- [configs/opencode.json](https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding/blob/main/configs/opencode.json): opencode config with every OpenAI-compatible row wired up
- [configs/claude-code.sh](https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding/blob/main/configs/claude-code.sh): one shell function per gateway that serves the Anthropic Messages format, for Claude Code
- [configs/litellm.yaml](https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding/blob/main/configs/litellm.yaml): LiteLLM proxy config over the same rows
- [README](https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding): the list itself, with the picks table and how it stays fresh
- [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md): what qualifies, how rows are ranked, how the probes work