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Pollinations.AI free tier

🔌 LLM APIs with free tier · no card · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-11-01 · pollinations.ai · back to the whole list

What you get

Legacy open text API, no signup, OpenAI-compatible (POST text.pollinations.ai/openai), on one model

Free models

gpt-oss-20b

Limits, in the vendor’s words

Legacy anonymous lane: Usage allowance: amount not published (period not published); scope not published

The legacy keyless host lists openai-fast, GPT-OSS 20B on OVH, in the anonymous tier. The current gen.pollinations.ai API requires a key and bills Pollen credits; without a key it returns 401. The former anonymous rate came from retired docs and is no longer a current published limit.

Where it is offered

The vendor names no country it keeps the offer from (source, read 2026-09-26).

Connect

Base URL: https://text.pollinations.ai/openai
Key: none — the lane is anonymous
Callable ids: gpt-oss-20b
Note: The legacy endpoint accepts requests without a key. The replacement gen.pollinations.ai requires personal keys and Pollen credits, bought or earned from Quests.

Try it from your terminal — the lane takes no key:

curl -s https://text.pollinations.ai/openai/chat/completions \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"model":"gpt-oss-20b","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"2+2? MAKE NO MISTAKES."}]}'

Evidence

Probe: the page at https://text.pollinations.ai/models, anchored on "tier":"anonymous", GPT-OSS 20B
Source: https://text.pollinations.ai/models
Source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pollinations/pollinations/HEAD/APIDOCS.md

History

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

2026-09-25 — Free models changed: added gpt-oss-20b; dropped gpt-oss
2026-07-19 — Added: Open GenAI text API, no signup, OpenAI-compatible (POST text.pollinations.ai/openai)

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