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VLM Run Gateway free tier

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

What you get

OpenAI-compatible gateway whose GPU-served vision and language models accept anonymous callers — no signup or key — in beta

Free models

qwen3.8-27b, diffusiongemma, qwen3.5-0.8b

Limits, in the vendor’s words

Anonymous lane: 10 requests/minute; 30 requests/hour; 100 requests/day per IP

GPU-served models are public and anonymous; frontier models require paid access. All three IP windows apply together and are shared by callers behind the same NAT or proxy. The gateway is beta; anonymous access is intended for evaluation. The operator is Autonomi AI Inc.; its terms render in a browser.

Where it is offered

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

Connect

Base URL: https://gateway.vlm.run/v1/openai
Key: none — the lane is anonymous
Callable ids: qwen/qwen3.8-27b, qwen/qwen3.5-0.8b, google/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it
Note: Omit Authorization; generic bearer tokens return 401. The OpenCode profile uses the catalog context/output limits and a separate 4,096-token request budget for qwen/qwen3.8-27b. Only that ID advertises tool support; the other listed IDs are ordinary-chat choices.

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

curl -s https://gateway.vlm.run/v1/openai/chat/completions \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"model":"qwen/qwen3.8-27b","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"2+2? MAKE NO MISTAKES."}]}'

Evidence

Probe: the page at https://docs.vlm.run/gateway/models, anchored on qwen/qwen3.8-27b; ids checked in https://gateway.vlm.run/v1/openai/models
Source: https://docs.vlm.run/gateway/authentication
Source: https://docs.vlm.run/gateway/rate-limits.md
Source: https://docs.vlm.run/gateway/faq.md
Source: https://docs.vlm.run/gateway/models
Source: https://docs.vlm.run/gateway/introduction

History

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

2026-10-09 — Free models changed: added diffusiongemma, qwen3.5-0.8b
2026-09-17 — Added: OpenAI-compatible gateway for vision and language models whose models on VLM Run’s own GPUs, Qwen3.8 27B among them, answer anonymous callers — no signup, no key — at 100 requests a day per IP, in alpha

Generated from registry.yaml on 2026-11-01 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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