Open source API provides free access to major language models
Original: 800M free tokens a month, every major LLM, open source
Source: github.com ↗
Who: Posted by xcom — Ronin (handle unknown, source label only), sharing a GitHub project authored by Tashfeen Ahmed (developer, affiliation unlisted).
What's new: Ahmed built and released FreeLLMAPI, an open-source tool that stitches together the free access tiers from eleven different AI providers — Google, Groq, Cerebras, SambaNova, Mistral, OpenRouter, GitHub Models, Cohere, Cloudflare, Zhipu, and NVIDIA — behind a single unified endpoint. The combined capacity adds up to roughly 1.3 billion per month, which is far more than any single provider's free tier alone.
How it works: Every request you send hits FreeLLMAPI's local server, which looks and feels exactly like — so any existing tool built for ChatGPT can plug in without modification. A router inside picks the best available provider, tracks how close each free-tier key is to its daily and per-minute limits, and automatically tries the next provider if one is rate-limited or down. are stored encrypted using and are only decrypted in memory at the moment a request goes out. A web dashboard built with and lets you manage keys, reorder fallback priorities, and inspect per-provider analytics.
The numbers: Eleven providers, roughly 1.3 billion tokens per month in combined free capacity, up to 20 automatic retry attempts per failed request, 30-minute sticky sessions so multi-turn conversations stay with the same model, and the whole server runs on roughly 40 megabytes of memory — light enough to run on a . The project has 2,400 GitHub stars and 343 forks as of publication.
Caveats: The free tiers available here top out well below the most capable paid models — no GPT-5 or Claude Opus-tier reasoning. As each provider's daily cap is exhausted, the router falls back to progressively weaker models, so the quality of answers tends to decline later in the day. Several providers' terms of service are ambiguous about proxy use, and Cohere's terms explicitly forbid personal household use. The tool is explicitly single-user and should not be exposed to the internet or shared — doing so would likely violate most providers' rules.