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🔌 LLM APIs with free tier · no card · provisional — added on 2026-11-10, a regular row from the first probe it passes on or after 2026-11-24 · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-11-12 · cheapllm.shop · back to the whole list
OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible model API with free beta access and a permanent hourly Free tier
No free model family is currently listed here; callable ids, where the row has them, are under Connect.
Email registration and an API key are required; no card. “During the beta every account is free, with no rate limit.” The beta has no published end date. Requests may queue for 30 seconds before a 503 with Retry-After. After beta, the documented Free floor is 5,000 input and 1,000 output tokens per rolling hour per account, shared across all keys; charges require adding a payment method. The operator says API prompts and answers are not stored and requests run on infrastructure it operates or rents; request metadata is retained. Signed-in browser-chat conversations are stored separately.
The vendor names no country it keeps the offer from (source, read 2026-11-10).
https://cheapllm.shop/v1CHEAPLLM_SHOP_API_KEY — get one at https://cheapllm.shop/signupANTHROPIC_BASE_URL): https://cheapllm.shopconfigs/codex/cheapllm-shop.config.toml — copy it to ~/.codex/, then codex -p cheapllm-shop; set up on the lane by the vendor’s own page, https://cheapllm.shop/docs: “Tools built for the OpenAI Responses API (Codex CLI, recent OpenAI SDK code) can call POST /v1/responses”deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017Try it from your terminal with your key in CHEAPLLM_SHOP_API_KEY — it goes from your machine to the vendor and nowhere else:
curl -s https://cheapllm.shop/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $CHEAPLLM_SHOP_API_KEY" \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"model":"deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"2+2? MAKE NO MISTAKES."}]}'
During the beta every account is free, with no rate limit., permanent free tier, 5,000 input tokens and 1,000 output tokens per hour, deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017Each line is a change to what this page publishes, dated the day it reached the list, in UTC.
2026-11-10 — Added: OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible model API with free beta access and a permanent hourly Free tierGenerated from registry.yaml on 2026-11-12 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.