Hugging Face
Model Hosting & Inference APIs
- The hub for open models and datasets
- Spaces to host and demo apps
- Inference endpoints and providers
- Free accounts and hosting
AI Models & Local Execution (13)
12 free model hosting and inference APIs and 6 more — pricing tier and real capabilities on every entry. No ads, no sponsored placement.
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Groq
Model Hosting & Inference APIs
- Ultra-fast inference on custom LPUs
- Sub-second responses for open models
- OpenAI-compatible API
- Generous free tier
OpenRouter
Model Hosting & Inference APIs
- One API for 400+ models across providers
- Automatic fallbacks and price routing
- Some models free to use
- Unified billing
Fireworks AI
Model Hosting & Inference APIs
- High-performance open-model serving
- Fine-tuning and function calling
- Vision and audio models
- Free trial credits
Novita AI
Model Hosting & Inference APIs
- 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
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
Cloudflare Workers AI
Model Hosting & Inference APIs
- 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
Baseten
Model Hosting & Inference APIs
- 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
Google AI Studio
Model Hosting & Inference APIs
- 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
- Hosted catalog of 100+ open and NVIDIA models with an OpenAI-compatible endpoint
- Free API key via the NVIDIA Developer Program with no credit card
- Try models in-browser playground before self-hosting NIM
- Rate-limited (community reports about 40 requests per minute)
- Alibaba's open model hub with thousands of Qwen, Wan and community models
- Free inference quota (community reports about 2,000 requests a day, OpenAI-compatible)
- Free demo spaces (Studios) and notebooks
- International site at modelscope.ai
- GLM-4.7-Flash and GLM-4.5-Flash text models listed as free for input and output on the public API
- GLM-4.6V-Flash vision model also free
- Larger GLM-5.x models are paid
- Every account gets a free Trial API key covering chat, embed and rerank models
- Rate-limited, non-commercial use only
- Upgrade to a pay-as-you-go production key when needed
Model Hosting & Inference APIs — straight answers
What are the best free model hosting and inference APIs?
Flocci AI Tools lists 18 model hosting and inference APIs, 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. 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 12 are freemium with a usable free tier. The Completely Free AI Tools collection lists the 396 entries site-wide that carry no paid plan at all.
See the full list →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.
See the full list →Head-to-head comparisons
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