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

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

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 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.

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 wanna know how do i get the GITHUB_API_KEY variable. can anyone tell me how? maybe a small tutorial

Here’s a casual Reddit post you could make about getting free API access using GitHub Marketplace:

Title: How to Get Free API Access (Like GPT-4) Using GitHub Marketplace

Hey everyone,

I just found out you can use some pretty powerful AI APIs (like GPT-4.1, o3, Llama, Mistral, etc.) totally free through GitHub Marketplace, and I wanted to share how it works for anyone who’s interested in experimenting or building stuff without spending money.

How to do it:

1. Sign up for GitHub (if you don’t already have an account).

2. Go to the GitHub Marketplace Models section (just search “GitHub Marketplace models” if you can’t find it).

3. Browse the available models and pick the one you want to use.

4. You’ll need to generate a GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) to authenticate your API requests. Just go to your GitHub settings, make a new token, and use that in your API calls.

5. Each model has its own usage limits (like 50 requests/day, or a certain number of tokens per request), but it’s more than enough for testing and small projects.

Why is this cool?

• You can try out advanced AI models for free, no payment info needed.

• Great for learning, prototyping, or just messing around.

• No need to download huge models or set up fancy infrastructure.

Limitations:

• There are daily/monthly usage caps, so it’s not for production apps or heavy use.

• Some newer models might require joining a waitlist2.

• The API experience isn’t exactly the same as paying for the official service, but it’s still really powerful for most dev/test use cases.

Hope this helps someone out! If you’ve tried it or have tips for cool projects to build with these free APIs, drop a reply!

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!

where can I get open ai api keys for free i tried api keys in GitHub none of them are working

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.

Hello. I'm very new to Git & Github and recently I committed a repo in which I had an API key. Before committing I removed the key, pushed to origin and checked the file in the repo - the key wasn't there, so I thought everything was fine. A while later, I get an email about GitGuardian finding a secret leak. I open that up and I see the API key is there! I check the repo itself again and there's no key, just the dummy text I added before committing. How does GitGuardian have a file with the key, but the file in the repo is clean?

Before committing to my local git repo I got an error that I had changes in the GitHub repo, so I had to do $ git pull origin master:dev and then push to origin. I don't know if that matters.
What did I do wrong? Is my key actually there in the repo...somewhere...?
Thanks.

Hello community,

I'm trying to learn API and how they work. As a starting point, I wrote few programs to work with IMDB API and google telegram API. It seemed interesting how we can query data in JSON format and work with our programs. Looking to build some interesting personal projects while learning more about APIs.

Just wondering what are your favourite public APIs and the cool programs you wrote in Python. Just looking for suggestions.

Thanks