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SEA-LION (AI Singapore)

🔌 LLM APIs with free tier · no card · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-09-17 · sea-lion.ai · back to the whole list

What you get

AI Singapore’s open Southeast-Asian model family behind a first-party OpenAI-compatible API — the vendor hosting its own weights rather than a gateway reselling somebody else’s

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

Free API meant for prototyping — rate limited at 10 calls/min per user, with no credit or token budget published and no expiry stated; production use is pointed at cloud partners (AWS, Cloudflare, GCP, IBM, NVIDIA, Qualcomm) instead. The two surfaces do not overlap — the page that calls the API free names no model, and the docs page that names aisingapore/Qwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B-IT — and dates the 10 RPM limit to 04 Jun 2026 — never says free

Connect

Base URL: https://api.sea-lion.ai/v1
Key: SEA_LION_API_KEY — get one at https://playground.sea-lion.ai/key-manager
Callable ids: aisingapore/Qwen-SEA-LION-v4.5-27B-IT, aisingapore/Llama-SEA-LION-v3.5-70B-R
Note: the key manager calls it a Trial API Key but publishes no expiry and no credit balance — the documented ceiling is the 10 calls/min rate limit. /v1/models needs the key, so the probe reads the offer page

Evidence

Probe: the page at https://sea-lion.ai/try-sea-lion/, anchored on 10 calls/min, prototype and test with our free api
Source: https://sea-lion.ai/try-sea-lion/
Source: https://docs.sea-lion.ai/guides/inferencing/api

History

2026-08-17 — Free models changed: dropped llama-sea-lion-v3.5, qwen-sea-lion-v4.5
2026-08-11 — Added to the list: AI Singapore’s open Southeast-Asian model family behind a first-party OpenAI-compatible API — the vendor hosting its own weights rather than a gateway reselling somebody else’s

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.

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