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cheahjs/free-llm-api-resources
A list of free LLM inference resources accessible via API.
A maintained list of free and trial-credit LLM API endpoints, updated automatically via a Python script that polls providers and regenerates the README. Useful for anyone who wants to experiment with LLMs without a credit card, or needs to compare what's actually free versus what's just a trial.
The README is machine-generated from live data, so it doesn't rot the way hand-maintained lists do. Rate limits and quotas are documented per-model, not just per-provider — that's the detail that actually matters. Coverage is solid across the realistic options (Groq, Cerebras, OpenRouter, Google AI Studio, GitHub Models) rather than padding with obscure providers. The explicit exclusion of services that reverse-engineer existing chatbots keeps it legally clean.
The Python source is a single-file scraper with no tests — when a provider changes their rate-limit page structure, it silently breaks and the README goes stale until someone notices. Trial credit entries ($0.50 for a year, $1 one-time) are mixed in with genuinely free tiers, which muddies the signal if you're looking for zero-cost options specifically. There's no structured data export (JSON, CSV) — just the generated Markdown — so you can't easily filter or build tooling on top of it.