# The best free model hosting and inference APIs

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.

## Stats

- 18 tools listed
- 12 free or freemium
- 0 with no paid plan at all
- 1 sub-categories covered

## FAQ

### What are the best free model hosting and inference APIs?

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.

### Which of these are completely free?

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.

### How is this list ordered?

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.

## Quick picks

### Which model hosting and inference APIs work in a browser with no install?

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.

### Which model hosting and inference APIs let you sign in with Google?

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.

## Tools

- [Baseten](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/baseten) — Freemium — Basic plan is pay-as-you-go with free starter credits for new accounts
- [Cloudflare Workers AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/cloudflare-workers-ai) — Freemium — 10,000 free 'Neurons' of inference per day on every account, resetting daily
- [Cohere Trial API](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/cohere-trial-api) — Freemium — Every account gets a free Trial API key covering chat, embed and rerank models
- [Fireworks AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/fireworks-ai) — Freemium — High-performance open-model serving
- [Google AI Studio](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/google-ai-studio) — Freemium — Free-tier API access to Gemini Flash-family models with generous token allowances, no credit card required to start
- [Groq](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/groq) — Freemium — Ultra-fast inference on custom LPUs
- [Hugging Face](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/hugging-face) — Freemium — The hub for open models and datasets
- [ModelScope](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/modelscope) — Freemium — Alibaba's open model hub with thousands of Qwen, Wan and community models
- [Novita AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/novita-ai) — Freemium — Single API surface for 200+ LLM/image/video/audio models plus on-demand GPU and bare-metal instances
- [OpenRouter](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/openrouter) — Freemium — One API for 400+ models across providers
- [Z.ai Open Platform (free GLM Flash API)](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/z-ai-open-platform-free-glm-flash-api) — Freemium — GLM-4.7-Flash and GLM-4.5-Flash text models listed as free for input and output on the public API
- [NVIDIA Build](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/nvidia-build) — Freemium — Hosted catalog of 100+ open and NVIDIA models with an OpenAI-compatible endpoint
- [Cerebras Inference](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/cerebras-inference) — Trial — Runs open models on Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine hardware at dramatically higher tokens/sec than GPU-based APIs
- [Replicate](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/replicate) — Trial — Run open models with one API call
- [DeepInfra](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/deepinfra) — Paid — Very low per-token pricing across a large catalog of open models (text, image, audio)
- [Nebius Token Factory](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/nebius-token-factory) — Paid — European GPU-cloud-backed inference API hosting major open models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, etc.)
- [SambaNova Cloud](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/sambanova-cloud) — Paid — Hosts open models (DeepSeek, MiniMax, Llama) on SambaNova's own RDU chips for high-speed inference
- [Together AI](https://aitools.flocci.in/tool/together-ai) — Paid — Fast, cheap open-model inference
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Source: Flocci AI Tools — https://aitools.flocci.in/best/best-model-hosting-inference-apis

Facts last verified: October 2026