awesome-free-ai-coding

RouterPlex

🎁 Trials (no card when possible) · no card · provisional — added recently, two weeks of probes still to pass · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-09-17 · routerplex.com · back to the whole list

What you get

A one-time $1 of test credit on a prepaid reseller that bills 54 chat models at vendor list prices with 0% markup, no card — one key on both wires, OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions and an Anthropic Messages base Claude Code takes as it is

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

“$1 test credit for your first integration after email verification. No card required” on the home page, and the docs quickstart: “Eligible verified accounts receive $1 in test credit once” — read 2026-09-11. What the dollar buys is the list price of whatever it is spent on: the home page states “vendor list prices with 0% markup”, so at deepseek-v4-flash it is an afternoon of work and at claude-opus-5 a handful of turns. The terms (last updated July 13, 2026) narrow it: “Until an account makes its first paid top-up, promotional credit may be usable only with a subset of models and at reduced rate limits”, “no promotional credit is guaranteed”, and one account per person. Which models the subset holds is on no page. Continuing costs a top-up “from $5 by card or $12 by crypto”; purchased credit does not expire. No legal entity is named on /terms or /about — the terms speak of “upstream providers” whose “own usage policies” apply — and /v1/models answers 403 without a key, so nothing here is read off the catalog. A connection test with a little work in it, one step above the smallest trial on this list

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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.