Hi Guys,

let's grow this thread.

Here we should accumulate all good and recommend options and the thread should serve as a reliable source for getting surprising good FREE API Options shown.

I'll start!:

I recommend using the Openrouter API Key with the unlimited and not rate limited Deepseek/Deepseek R1 0528 - free model.

It's intelligent, strong reasoning and it's good at coding but sometimes it sucks a bit.
I Roocode there is a High Reasoning mode maybe it makes things better.

In Windsurf you can use SWE-1 for free which is a good and reliable option for tool use and coding but it misses something apart from the big guns.

In TRAE you can get nearly unlimited access to Claude 4 Sonnet and other Highend Models for just 3$ a month! Thats my option right now.

And... there is a tool which can import your OpenAI-Session Cookie and can work as a local reverse proxy to make the requests from your Plus Subscription work as API request in your Coding IDE ..thats sick right?

How do I get free ai API keys to use for my projects as a startup

Made a simple site. Yes this is a self promotion.

It costs nothing.

https://www.unsecuredapikeys.com/

Hi all,
are you aware of any free ai models which I could use for aichat? Or how did you do it? Are you paying for api keys? I want to just use it for my private projects. If I for example would use openai how much does it cost for let's say 50 prompts a month?
Sorry completely new to this.

Hello everyone I am looking for APIs of any AI to integrate them into your code or to "Aider" thank you in advance

Hey folks, this is baffling me - how do I create a new app/get API credentials?

When I go to /pref/apps I just get a "You are already logged in and will be redirected"

But when I get redirected I end up on the same screen.

Any insights? :-)

Thanks!

Please change ALL of the following:

• API key

• Redirect URL

• User-Agent (in Infinity)

Please don't just change the API key!!!!!!!!! And please use another app name without infinity in it 🥺.

I found many users had made some tutorials about how to use your own API key, like this post, but none of them mentioned the other two things. If you don't change all of them, reddit still knows you are using Infinity, but with your own key.

You can see more info here.

Can someone please walk me through it? Thanks

So DeepSeek-R1 has just landed on OpenRouter and you can now run the API key for free. Check how to get the API key and codes : https://youtu.be/jOSn-1HO5kY?si=i6n22dBWeAino0-5

I love how groq.com and aistudio.google.com gives us free access to llama 70B, mixtral 8x7B and gemini 1.5 pro api keys for free.

My question is, are there any other similar sites like the ones I listed that gives free api keys for personal use?

I get access to a variety of LLM APIs through work. I'd like to use something like Cursor or Copilot, but I don't want to pay if I can avoid it. As best I can tell, these tools still charge even if you have your own API keys. Are there any good free alternatives?

Like the title says.

If we want to integrate AI into a project of ours but we don't have funding, where can I find Free AI APIs online? If there aren't any yet, is there a way we can somehow lets say locally install an AI that can be used through C#?

For example, lets say:

1. I created an app that uses AI

2. The User downloads it

3. The app is opened and in order for the app to work properly, we need to make sure that what the app needs is on the system (in this case let's say the AI needed isn't on the machine)

4. [TO-DO] Install a very small version of the AI so the user's storage doesn't get sucked completely

5. [TO-DO] Use the AI through C# in the app's code

Otherwise I'd just like to find a way to use AI in my C# app, preferably free and unlimited (somehow)

What are some fun datasets you've used for personal projects? I'm learning data engineering and wanted to get more practice with pulling data via an API and using an orchestrator to consistently get in stored in a db.

Just wanted to get some ideas from the community on fun datasets. Google gives the standard (and somewhat boring) gov data, housing data, weather etc.

I'm creating a project for fun that doesn't need a lot of requests.

Are there any LLMs that will provide an API key for free that I can utilize for my project? I know ChatGPT has one, but it's only for around $11, which isn't much at all.

I know I could also probably host my own LLM, but that would bring challenges I'd like to avoid.

I'm just looking for something really basic that I can utilize for a personal project.

EDIT: If there's also an AI that I can use that will generate images from a given prompt that I can utilize from code and not just a web UI, that would be great.

I don't have access to a middleware or proxy server where I can store my key. I was wondering if there is a list of public APIs that don't require you to register and use a key. I would like to be able to make REST calls directly from my app.