So I coded a bot that uses OpenAI API and it runs great, but the 3 months expired and I no longer have a key. The usage was very minimal, in 3 months I used like 2$ worth of queries.

So are there any good free AI APIs out there at the moment? It is on a small raspberry pi so running it locally is out of the question.

Seems like openAI don't provide free API key anymore.. Is there any alternative?

I am a designer and a small frontend developer. The OpenAI API makes it extremely easy for me to build AI functionality into apps, although I only have a very basic understanding of AI. Though of course I can't make any deep changes, I am even able to fine tune models and adapt them for my intended use.

Now I was wondering if there is anything comparable on the market at the moment. I know of Meta's LLaMA, but you can only use it locally, which makes it harder to easily implement into applications. Also, you are not allowed to use it for commercial purposes.

I haven't found much from Google or other tech companies. Does OpenAI have a monopoly here or are there alternatives worth mentioning that could be used?

I just want one that can help write a story or a greentext like the OpenAI thing does.

I wnat to have basically the closest AI to ChatGPT work in python, but, free.

I know about hugging face, and have tried to install/work with models from there, but certain installations didnt work, and, i dont trust my little computrer to work too well.

So if anyone has any simple Yet good AIs that are simple to get working with Python, please tell me.

So I am from Sri Lanka and our university is going to organize a competition and we need OpenAI API for it but we don't have money to afford it. Is there any alternative API you guys know

Hello all, I am looking to create a site that takes an input URL, validates it's accessibility via Axe API and get a JSON file in return with the issues, sends both the HTML and the JSON to an AI API to hopefully receive a fully accessible (so it shouldn't have anything flagged by Axe API) new HTML. Then the site would render that HTML. Are there any free API's out there for my specific use case? I am building this as a project so it's not really critical if there's a usage rate. Thanks in advance.

TLDR: Are there any free AI API's for relatively lightweight evaluation and coding prompts?

Given that there are a number of open LLMs with performance similar to GPT 3.5 are there any services cheaper than Open AI chatgpt 3.5 API? I'm thinking of using an LLM in a video game so each user will need to make lots of calls to an LLM API which can get expensive if you have a large number of players. I'd rather use a third party service rather than hosting an LLM myself as the demand could go up and down over time and scaling can be costly and time consuming

I’ll be using it to create a program in python for personal use.

I’m very excited about this because it scrapes data from Reddit 🤩

Anything will help. Thanks!

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?

Hi all, are there any good free alternatives to open AI API? I want to build a web app that request data from the API. Pls suggest some if there are any

I enjoy tinkering with their API in my python programs but I don't like paying for a black box. zuckerboy's LLaMA can be downloaded entirely, though I don't know if the current version is released or we just have access to that 'cracked' version still. Might there be a model with something similar to openai's API, a model I can download entirely and call with my program/IDE right from my desktop, or something else entirely?

I do like the idea of having a model on a similar playing field as GPT at my beck and call, and even better if i can 'own' it and pick it apart, but i really just want the ability to incorporate something of a similar magnitude to a few of my coding ideas. Mostly python, but i guess now l can 'code' in anything!

Yeah I could call each response from an API, bouncing back and forth over the internet, but what other method can I use to avoid the middleman but still apply them in my code?

Maybe this is not right place to ask, but I will try - I used all free samples of Open AI and if I want to generate more text, I have to pay. I am not rich, so I looking for other sites who work similar to Open AI and are for free. I am not a programer or computer specialist, I just like creating interesting stories with AI. Can you recommend me some free alternative of Open AI? Or at least can you tell me where can I ask about this?

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Hi everyone,

I’m trying to get started with AutoGen Studio for a small project where I want to build AI agents and see how they share knowledge. But the problem is, OpenAI’s API is quite expensive for me.

Are there any free alternatives that work with AutoGen Studio? I would appreciate any suggestions or advice!

Thanks you all.