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2 rows on the list serve qwen3.8-flash free: Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope, international) and Qoder CN (formerly Lingma). None asks for a card. The providers’ last scheduled probes were on 2026-10-26; their offers are rechecked twice a week. It measures strong: within 25 points of the top of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
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🔌 LLM APIs with free tier · no card · not offered in mainland China · last probe 2026-10-26 · listed since 2026-09-25
A million free tokens on each of its chat models in the Singapore region — Qwen, DeepSeek and GLM among them — valid 90 days from activation or the model’s release; OpenAI-compatible
Free grants apply in Singapore (international) only, independently per model and dated snapshot. The model pricing tables decide eligibility: Kimi has no free-quota column and glm-5.2-fast-preview has none. Account information must be completed before activation. After the grant, usage is automatically billed pay-as-you-go unless Free Quota Only is enabled separately for the model; that switch is disabled by default.
https://dashscope-intl.aliyuncs.com/compatible-mode/v1ALIBABA_MODEL_STUDIO_API_KEY — get one at https://modelstudio.console.alibabacloud.comqwen3.8-flash🎁 Trials (no card when possible) · no card · last probe 2026-10-26 · listed since 2026-10-12
Alibaba Cloud’s coding apps for China, formerly Tongyi Lingma, with a free personal-model promotion alongside a two-week 300-credit trial and 100 credits a day to claim in the desktop app
Claimed promotional credit: 100 credits/day per account (Each claim valid for 30 days)
Basic-model fallback: Completions allowance: amount not published (period not published) per account
Qwen3.8 Flash promotion: Requests allowance: amount not published (period not published) per account per model
The model promotion is open to personal users, including free accounts with zero credits; it needs no paid subscription or claim and works across the CN apps, including CLI. Its end is “结束时间将提前在本页公告” (to be announced in advance). The separate daily credit promotion must be claimed in the desktop app; its end is “结束时间：另行公告” (to be announced). Each claim window runs from 10:00 to the next day at 10:00 Beijing time (UTC+8); unclaimed credit does not accumulate. After trial credit runs out, a basic model still provides limited completion. Signup requires an Alibaba Cloud account bound to a phone number; real-name verification is needed for purchases. International Qoder has a separate account and price list.
qwen3.8-27b — free at Groq, LLMTR, LLM Tech, Hetzner Inference API, Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope, international), IteraCompute, Regolo AI, VLM Run Gateway and OVHcloud AI Endpointsqwen3.8-2.4t-a95b — free at Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope, international)qwen3.8-max — free at Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (DashScope, international)Generated from registry.yaml on 2026-10-27 and re-verified twice a week; every free model on the list is at https://mvalentsev.github.io/awesome-free-ai-coding/models/, and the full list, the Atom feed and the machinery at https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding.