🔌 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 · opentyphoon.ai · back to the whole list
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
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.
Rate limits are the published ceiling — 5 requests per second and 200 per minute on typhoon-v2.5-30b-a3b-instruct, 2 and 20 on typhoon-ocr — with no token, daily or monthly cap stated; higher limits are by email “with details about your use case, expected volume, and requirements”. The FAQ answers the price in one sentence, “The Typhoon API is a research showcase and free to use”, and names the trade in the next: “Yes, we are collecting usage data from the Typhoon API”, used “to improve the model and the API” and, it says, never shared with third parties. Production use is pointed elsewhere — “please support us by using the API through Together AI” — and the paid API Pro that ran there sunset on 2025-12-31 with an AWS successor announced for Q1 2026 that had not appeared by this read (2026-09-05). A key is minted in the playground after signing up; no card is mentioned on any page read
https://api.opentyphoon.ai/v1OPENTYPHOON_API_KEY — get one at https://playground.opentyphoon.ai/api-keytyphoon-v2.5-30b-a3b-instructthe typhoon api is a research showcase and, free to use; ids checked in https://api.opentyphoon.ai/v1/models2026-09-07 — Added to the list: 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 useGenerated 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.