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GitHub Models free tier (archived)

🔌 LLM APIs with free tier · no card · archived — vendor-announced shutdown on 2026-07-30 · github.com · back to the whole list

What it offered

Free playground+API for catalog models with GitHub account

Free models it listed

gpt-4.1

Limits, in the vendor’s words

Per-model rate limits, free tier; closed to new customers on 2026-06-16 and fully retired (playground, catalog, inference API, BYOK) on 2026-07-30

Evidence

• Probe: the models catalog at https://models.github.ai/catalog/models
• Source: https://docs.github.com/en/github-models
• Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-16-github-models-is-no-longer-available-to-new-customers/
• Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-01-github-models-is-being-fully-retired-on-july-30-2026/
• Source: https://models.inference.ai.azure.com

History

Each line is a change to what this page publishes, dated the day it reached the list, in UTC.

• 2026-07-27 — Archived: vendor-announced shutdown on 2026-06-16
• 2026-07-19 — Added: Free playground+API for catalog models with GitHub account

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