AI Models & Local Execution (14)

All 14 model hosting and inference APIs in the Flocci catalog, 11 of them free or freemium. Pricing tier and real capabilities on every entry — no ads, no sponsored placement.

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Hugging Face

Model Hosting & Inference APIs
freemium
  • The hub for open models and datasets
  • Spaces to host and demo apps
  • Inference endpoints and providers
  • Free accounts and hosting
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Replicate

Model Hosting & Inference APIs
freemium
  • Run open models with one API call
  • Thousands of community models
  • Deploy your own with Cog
  • Pay-per-second, free trial credits
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Groq

Model Hosting & Inference APIs
freemium
  • Ultra-fast inference on custom LPUs
  • Sub-second responses for open models
  • OpenAI-compatible API
  • Generous free tier
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Together AI

Model Hosting & Inference APIs
freemium
  • Fast, cheap open-model inference
  • 200+ models via one API
  • Fine-tuning and dedicated endpoints
  • Free starter credits
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OpenRouter

Model Hosting & Inference APIs
freemium
  • One API for 400+ models across providers
  • Automatic fallbacks and price routing
  • Some models free to use
  • Unified billing
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Fireworks AI

Model Hosting & Inference APIs
freemium
  • High-performance open-model serving
  • Fine-tuning and function calling
  • Vision and audio models
  • Free trial credits
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Cerebras Inference

Model Hosting & Inference APIs
freemium
  • Runs open models on Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine hardware at dramatically higher tokens/sec than GPU-based APIs
  • New accounts get free credits across all Cerebras-hosted models
  • Popular backend choice for latency-sensitive agentic and coding tools
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SambaNova Cloud

Model Hosting & Inference APIs
  • Hosts open models (DeepSeek, MiniMax, Llama) on SambaNova's own RDU chips for high-speed inference
  • Per-token pricing with no platform subscription required
  • Competes directly with Cerebras/Groq on raw tokens/sec for open-weight models
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DeepInfra

Model Hosting & Inference APIs
  • Very low per-token pricing across a large catalog of open models (text, image, audio)
  • Flex scheduling tier at 0.8x price for non-production/batch workloads
  • No subscription; usage-tier system auto-scales billing thresholds
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Novita AI

Model Hosting & Inference APIs
freemium
  • Single API surface for 200+ LLM/image/video/audio models plus on-demand GPU and bare-metal instances
  • Agent Sandbox for secure agent runtimes alongside model hosting
  • 'Free to start' onboarding credits across model and GPU products
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Nebius Token Factory

Model Hosting & Inference APIs
  • European GPU-cloud-backed inference API hosting major open models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, etc.)
  • Rebranded in 2026 from 'Nebius AI Studio' to 'Nebius Token Factory'
  • Backed by Nebius's own large-scale GPU cloud infrastructure rather than reselling capacity
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Cloudflare Workers AI

Model Hosting & Inference APIs
freemium
  • 10,000 free 'Neurons' of inference per day on every account, resetting daily
  • Runs open models (Llama, Mistral, Whisper, etc.) on Cloudflare's global edge network for low-latency serverless inference
  • Bundled with Workers/Pages for building full serverless AI apps without managing GPUs
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Baseten

Model Hosting & Inference APIs
freemium
  • Basic plan is pay-as-you-go with free starter credits for new accounts
  • Deploys custom/fine-tuned models, not just a fixed model catalog, with per-second GPU billing
  • Hosts current open models (DeepSeek, GPT-OSS, Kimi K3) as ready-to-call APIs alongside custom deployment
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Google AI Studio

Model Hosting & Inference APIs
freemium
  • Free-tier API access to Gemini Flash-family models with generous token allowances, no credit card required to start
  • Browser-based playground for prompt design, multimodal testing, and one-click API key generation
  • Batch API offers 50% cost reduction once on the paid tier
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Model Hosting & Inference APIs — straight answers

What are the best free model hosting and inference APIs?

Flocci AI Tools lists 14 model hosting and inference APIs, ordered free tiers first: Baseten, Cerebras Inference, Cloudflare Workers AI, Fireworks AI and Google AI Studio. 11 of the 14 are free or have a free tier. Every entry states what it uniquely does, not a score.

Are there completely free model hosting and inference APIs?

None in this sub-category are fully free, but 11 are freemium with a usable free tier. The Completely Free AI Tools collection lists the 115 entries site-wide that carry no paid plan at all.

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What should I look for in model hosting and inference APIs?

Start with what you need to do: call a hosted model from your own code. Then check the pricing tier, because "free" here means no paid plan at all while "freemium" means a free tier under paid plans. Every tool on this page lists both.

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