Every option in the catalog for when you need to call a hosted model from your own code — 18 model hosting and inference APIs, 12 of them free or freemium, with the pricing tier printed on every row.
Flocci AI Tools lists 18 of them, ordered free tiers first: Baseten, Cloudflare Workers AI, Cohere Trial API, Fireworks AI and Google AI Studio. 12 of the 18 are free or have a free tier. Each entry states what it uniquely does rather than a score.
None of these are marked fully free — they are freemium, trial or paid. The Completely Free AI Tools collection lists the 396 entries in the catalog that carry no paid plan at all.
See the full list →Free tools first, then freemium, then trial, then paid, and alphabetically inside each tier. Nobody pays to appear higher: Flocci AI Tools carries no ads, no sponsored slots and no paid listings, so the order reflects price and nothing else.
Baseten, Cloudflare Workers AI, Cohere Trial API, Fireworks AI and Google AI Studio all work in a browser tab with no install needed — just open the site and go. 11 of the 12 free model hosting and inference APIs listed here are browser-based.
Google AI Studio and OpenRouter support Google sign-in, so you can start without creating a new account. That's 2 of the 12 free model hosting and inference APIs on this page.
| Tool | Pricing | Type | Listed for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baseten | Freemium | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | Basic plan is pay-as-you-go with free starter credits for new accounts |
| Cloudflare Workers AI | Freemium | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | 10,000 free 'Neurons' of inference per day on every account, resetting daily |
| Cohere Trial API | Freemium | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | Every account gets a free Trial API key covering chat, embed and rerank models |
| Fireworks AI | Freemium | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | High-performance open-model serving |
| Google AI Studio | Freemium | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | Free-tier API access to Gemini Flash-family models with generous token allowances, no credit card required to start |
| Groq | Freemium | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | Ultra-fast inference on custom LPUs |
| Hugging Face | Freemium | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | The hub for open models and datasets |
| ModelScope | Freemium | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | Alibaba's open model hub with thousands of Qwen, Wan and community models |
| Novita AI | Freemium | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | Single API surface for 200+ LLM/image/video/audio models plus on-demand GPU and bare-metal instances |
| OpenRouter | Freemium | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | One API for 400+ models across providers |
| Z.ai Open Platform (free GLM Flash API) | Freemium | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | GLM-4.7-Flash and GLM-4.5-Flash text models listed as free for input and output on the public API |
| NVIDIA Build | Freemium | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | Hosted catalog of 100+ open and NVIDIA models with an OpenAI-compatible endpoint |
| Cerebras Inference | Trial | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | Runs open models on Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine hardware at dramatically higher tokens/sec than GPU-based APIs |
| Replicate | Trial | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | Run open models with one API call |
| DeepInfra | Paid | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | Very low per-token pricing across a large catalog of open models (text, image, audio) |
| Nebius Token Factory | Paid | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | European GPU-cloud-backed inference API hosting major open models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, etc.) |
| SambaNova Cloud | Paid | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | Hosts open models (DeepSeek, MiniMax, Llama) on SambaNova's own RDU chips for high-speed inference |
| Together AI | Paid | Model Hosting & Inference APIs | Fast, cheap open-model inference |