🔌 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 · vlm.run · back to the whole list
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
qwen3.8-27b
The authentication page says it plainly: “The VLM Run Gateway serves anonymous callers on a small free quota, keyed by client IP”, and “Every GPU-served model is public and reachable anonymously”, while “The routed models carry the paid access tier”. The rate-limit table gives the anonymous tier “10/min, 30/hr, 100/day” per client IP, the three windows stacking, against 240 a minute with a key. The FAQ calls the gateway alpha, with a model catalog kept intentionally small: its chat models on VLM Run GPUs are Qwen3.8 27B and Qwen3.5 0.8B, beside OCR, embedding and speech models. The published request schema has no tools field, yet a keyless call carrying one tool was answered with a tool call on 2026-09-17. The operator is Autonomi AI Inc.; its terms render only in a browser. Read 2026-09-17
https://gateway.vlm.run/v1/openaiqwen/qwen3.8-27bBearer vlmrun is the explicit anonymous form for a client that needs a non-empty key; 10 a minute, 30 an hour and 100 a day per IP. qwen/qwen3.5-0.8b is the other chat model on VLM Run’s GPUs, and the routed ids in the same catalog, Kimi K3 among them, answer 403 model_not_entitled without a paid organizationqwen/qwen3.8-27b; ids checked in https://gateway.vlm.run/v1/openai/modelsGenerated 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.