Every serious AI lab now hands out a free tier. A few million tokens a month here, a few thousand requests a day there. On its own each one is a toy, which is why most people hit a wall and go pay for a plan.
FreeLLMAPI stacks them. You add the free keys you can get, and it serves all of them behind one endpoint on your own computer. Claude Code talks to that endpoint, and when one model hits its limit the next one takes over.
What you get
- About 7.4 billion tokens a month of listed free capacity
- 34 free providers, 474 model families, 635 free model endpoints
- 47,000+ stars, MIT licence
- Keys are encrypted at rest
Two things to be clear about before you start
These are the two questions people ask first, and getting them wrong wastes an evening.
- Claude itself is not free here. Claude Code is the app you type in. The answers come from the free models in your pool, such as Gemini, GLM, Kimi, Grok, Mistral and Qwen.
- GPT models show up only through outside hosts and open models like GPT-OSS. There is no free ChatGPT plan behind this. The free list changes every week, so check freellmapi.co/models.
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