awesome-free-ai-coding

Bytez

🔌 LLM APIs with free tier · no card · provisional — added recently, two weeks of probes still to pass · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-09-17 · bytez.com · back to the whole list

What you get

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

Free models

The page this row is verified against names no free model, so the column stays empty; callable ids, where the row has them, are under Connect.

Limits, in the vendor’s words

The billing page’s Free card reads “$0 / month - Get $1 in free credits”, “Run open models up to 7B parameters”, “1 concurrent request (open models)” and “Credits refresh every 4 weeks”, and the billing cycle adds that “Credits expire 4 weeks after grant”, with no billing on the plan. The card also lists “Access all closed model providers”, but the get-started guide says a closed-source model needs “an account with the model provider” and is “billed directly by the provider”, so the free dollar reaches only the open models of 7B parameters or fewer — Qwen3 4B, the docs’ own example, is one. An open model above 7B needs at least $10 of credit bought in the last four weeks, on the $3 a month plan. Read 2026-09-17

Connect

• Base URL: https://api.bytez.com/models/v2/openai/v1
• Key: BYTEZ_API_KEY — get one at https://bytez.com/api
• Callable ids: Qwen/Qwen3-4B
• Note: model ids are Hugging Face ids, Qwen/Qwen3-4B being the docs’ example; the OpenAI SDK examples pass the key as the api key and the docs’ curl sends it bare in Authorization. /v1/models answers 401 without a key, and closed-source models need a provider key of your own

Evidence

• Probe: the page at https://docs.bytez.com/model-api/docs/billing.md, anchored on $0 / month - Get $1 in free credits, Run open models up to 7B parameters
• Source: https://docs.bytez.com/model-api/docs/billing.md
• Source: https://docs.bytez.com/model-api/docs/billing
• Source: https://docs.bytez.com/model-api/docs/get-started.md

History

• next scheduled run — Added to the list: 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

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Generated from registry.yaml on 2026-09-18 and re-verified twice a week; the full list, the Atom feed and the machinery are at https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding.

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