What free AI models are available right now?

ModelBench tracks 151 free AI models from 39 providers including OpenAI, Google, Cohere, NVIDIA, and more. Each model has a verified source where you can access its free tier with no upfront payment required.

Are free AI models actually free to use?

Yes. The models listed on this page have verified zero-price hosting offerings from at least one provider. Free tiers usually have rate limits or daily usage caps but require no payment or credit card to get started.

Which providers offer free AI models via API?

ModelBench tracks free model tiers from 39 providers. These include both model creators (Google with Gemini, Cohere, xAI with Grok) and inference gateways (OpenRouter, Poe) that serve a range of open and closed models at zero cost.

How do I get API access to a free model?

Click a model name to open its detail page, then view the Providers & pricing table for provider-specific API endpoints, documentation links, and rate limit details. Each row links directly to that provider's docs.

How often is the free models list updated?

ModelBench refreshes model data every 5 minutes from the models.dev catalog. When providers add, remove, or reprice a free tier, this page reflects the change within minutes.

Free AI Models: 151 Models with Free API Access

Free models151

Providers offering free tiers39

Catalog total5180

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All free AI models

Source-verified models with free API access. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from publicly listed pricing.

Source-verified free AI model tiers by provider
Model	Free providers	Context	Performance	Speed	Capabilities	Released
MiniMax-M3.1-Flash minimax/MiniMax-M3.1-Flash	nvidia	1M	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2026-10-19	Details
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL 120B A12B nvidia/nemotron-3.5-super-vl-120b-a12b	nvidia	1.05M	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2026-10-15	Details
MiniCPM-V 4.7 35B-A3B openbmb/minicpm-v-4.7-35b-a3b	amd	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-10-07	Details
MiniCPM-V 4.7 1B openbmb/minicpm-v-4.7-1b	amd	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-10-06	Details
Beam 1.0 501B A23B reflection/beam-1.0-501b-a23b	reflection cloudflare-ai-gateway ollama-cloud	1.05M	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-10-05	Details
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 Lite xai/grok-imagine-video-1.5-lite	xai	1.02K	-	-	T	2026-10-01	Details
Ling 3.1 Flash inclusionai/ling-3.1-flash	commandcode	262K	41	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-09-29	Details
GPT-6.1 Sol openai/gpt-6.1-sol	sap-ai-core	1.05M	52	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-09-29	Details
GPT-6 Luna openai/gpt-6-luna	sap-ai-core	1.05M	38	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-09-22	Details
MiMo-V2.6-Flash xiaomi/mimo-v2.6-flash	nan amd	1.05M	38	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-09-22	Details
Grok 4.7 xai/grok-4.7	azure azure-cognitive-services	5K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-09-21	Details
Step 5 Preview stepfun/step-5-preview	nvidia	1M	44	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-09-16	Details
Qwen-Image-2.1 alibaba/qwen-image-2.1	nan	8.19K	-	-	T	2026-09-14	Details
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash	nan amd nvidia sensenova	1M	25	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-09-10	Details
North Small Translate cohere/north-small-translate-1-0	cohere	16K	-	-	T	2026-09-09	Details
MiniCPM5-2B openbmb/minicpm5-2b	amd	131K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2026-09-06	Details
GPT-6 Astra openai/gpt-6-astra	sap-ai-core	1.05M	53	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-09-04	Details
Gemini 3.8 Flash google/gemini-3.8-flash	sap-ai-core	1.05M	41	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-09-02	Details
Qwen3.8 Flash Next alibaba/qwen3.8-flash-next	amd	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-08-27	Details
Qwen3.8 Flash alibaba/qwen3.8-flash	nan	1M	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-08-26	Details
GLM-5.3-Flash zhipuai/glm-5.3-flash	nan nvidia amd	1M	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-08-26	Details
Apodex 1.1 Mini apodex/apodex-1.1-mini	novita-ai	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-08-24	Details
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp	amd	1M	35	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-08-21	Details
Qwen3.8 27B alibaba/qwen3.8-27b	amd iteracompute	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-08-14	Details
GLM-5.3 zhipuai/glm-5.3	nan agentrouter nvidia	1M	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-08-14	Details
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro-0813	nvidia	1M	36	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-08-13	Details
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B nvidia/nemotron-3.5-lightning	nvidia requesty	262K	13	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-08-11	Details
Muse Glimmer 30B meta/muse-glimmer-30b	nvidia requesty	131K	18	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-08-10	Details
Grok Imagine Image 2.0 xai/grok-imagine-image-2.0	xai zenmux	64K	-	-	T	2026-08-07	Details
Grok Voice STT 1.0 xai/grok-voice-stt-1.0	zenmux	15K	-	-		2026-08-04	Details
DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731	hetzner amd nvidia	1M	34	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-07-31	Details
Grok Voice TTS 1.0 xai/grok-voice-tts-1.0	zenmux	15K	-	-	T	2026-07-31	Details
Claude Opus 5 anthropic/claude-opus-5	agentrouter	1M	51	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-07-24	Details
Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite	sap-ai-core	1.05M	22	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-07-21	Details
Gemini 3.6 Flash google/gemini-3.6-flash	sap-ai-core	1.05M	34	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-07-21	Details
Kimi K3 moonshotai/kimi-k3	nvidia sensenova	1.05M	44	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-07-16	Details
Inkling thinkingmachines/inkling	nvidia	1.05M	25	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-07-15	Details
GPT-5.6 Sol openai/gpt-5.6-sol	agentrouter	1.05M	47	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-07-09	Details
Hy3 tencent/hy3	tencent-tokenhub	256K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-07-06	Details
Laguna XS 2.1 poolside/laguna-xs-2.1	nvidia llmtr	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2026-07-02	Details
GLM-5.2 zhipuai/glm-5.2	nvidia sensenova nan	1M	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-06-13	Details
Kimi K2.7 Code moonshotai/kimi-k2.7-code	hetzner	262K	26	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-06-12	Details
North Mini Code cohere/north-mini-code-1-0	cohere	256K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2026-06-09	Details
DiffusionGemma 26B A4B IT google/diffusiongemma-26b-a4b-it	nvidia	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2026-06-09	Details
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B nvidia/nemotron-3-ultra-550b-a55b	nvidia requesty	1M	23	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-06-04	Details
Nemotron 3.5 Content Safety nvidia/nemotron-3.5-content-safety	requesty nvidia	128K	-	-	T Reasoning	2026-06-02	Details
MiniMax-M3 minimax/MiniMax-M3	nvidia	1.05M	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-06-01	Details
Grok Imagine Video 1.5 xai/grok-imagine-video-1.5	xai	1.02K	-	-	T	2026-05-30	Details
Step 3.7 Flash stepfun/step-3.7-flash	nvidia	256K	20	-	T Reasoning Tools	2026-05-29	Details
Claude Opus 4.8 anthropic/claude-opus-4-8	agentrouter	1M	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2026-05-28	Details
Mistral Medium 3.5 mistral/mistral-medium-3-5	sap-ai-core nvidia	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-04-30	Details
Mistral Medium 3.5 mistral/mistral-medium-2604	nvidia sap-ai-core	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-04-29	Details
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-omni-30b-a3b-reasoning	nvidia requesty	256K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-04-28	Details
Laguna M.1 poolside/laguna-m.1	requesty	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2026-04-28	Details
Laguna XS.2 poolside/laguna-xs.2	requesty	262K	-	-	T Reasoning	2026-04-28	Details
DeepSeek V4 Flash deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash	nvidia sensenova pendra nan agentrouter	1M	24	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-04-24	Details
DeepSeek V4 Pro deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro	nvidia sensenova	1M	30	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-04-24	Details
Qwen3.6 27B alibaba/qwen3.6-27b	qvac pendra	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-04-22	Details
Gemini Embedding 2 google/gemini-embedding-2	sap-ai-core	8.19K	-	-	T	2026-04-22	Details
MiMo-V2.5 xiaomi/mimo-v2.5	nan	1.05M	22	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-04-22	Details
Kimi K2.6 moonshotai/kimi-k2.6	nvidia	262K	27	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-04-20	Details
Hy3 preview tencent/hy3-preview	tencent-tokenhub	256K	25	-	T Reasoning Tools	2026-04-20	Details
Qwen3.6 35B-A3B alibaba/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	qvac nan	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-04-17	Details
Grok Imagine Image Quality xai/grok-imagine-image-quality	xai	16K	-	-	T	2026-04-03	Details
Gemma 4 26B A4B IT google/gemma-4-26b-a4b-it	google nan tempr	262K	17	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-04-02	Details
Gemma 4 31B IT google/gemma-4-31b-it	google nvidia qvac requesty tempr amd	262K	15	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-04-02	Details
Veo 3.1 Lite Preview google/veo-3.1-lite-generate-preview	google	1.02K	-	-	T	2026-03-31	Details
Lyria 3 Clip Preview google/lyria-3-clip-preview	google openrouter edenai	131K	-	-	T	2026-03-25	Details
Lyria 3 Pro Preview google/lyria-3-pro-preview	google openrouter	131K	-	-	T	2026-03-25	Details
MiniMax-M2.7 minimax/MiniMax-M2.7	nvidia	205K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2026-03-18	Details
Nemotron 3 Content Safety nvidia/nemotron-3-content-safety	nvidia	128K	-	-	T	2026-03-16	Details
Nemotron VoiceChat nvidia/nemotron-voicechat	nvidia	128K	-	-	T Tools	2026-03-16	Details
Nemotron 3 Super 120B A12B nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b	requesty	262K	13	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-03-11	Details
Qwen3.5 0.8B alibaba/qwen3.5-0.8b	qvac	262K	-	-	T Tools	2026-03-02	Details
Qwen3.5 2B alibaba/qwen3.5-2b	qvac	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-03-02	Details
Qwen3.5 4B alibaba/qwen3.5-4b	qvac	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-03-02	Details
Qwen3.5 122B-A10B alibaba/qwen3.5-122b-a10b	nvidia	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-02-23	Details
Qwen3.5 9B alibaba/qwen3.5-9b	qvac	262K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2026-02-23	Details
Tiny Aya Earth cohere/tiny-aya-earth	cohere	8K	-	-	T Tools	2026-02-17	Details
Tiny Aya Fire cohere/tiny-aya-fire	cohere	8K	-	-	T Tools	2026-02-17	Details
Tiny Aya Global cohere/tiny-aya-global	cohere	8K	-	-	T Tools	2026-02-17	Details
Tiny Aya Water cohere/tiny-aya-water	cohere	8K	-	-	T Tools	2026-02-17	Details
GPT-5.3 Codex Spark openai/gpt-5.3-codex-spark	poe	128K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2026-02-05	Details
Step 3.5 Flash stepfun/step-3.5-flash	nvidia	256K	17	-	T Reasoning Tools	2026-01-29	Details
Grok Imagine Image xai/grok-imagine-image	xai	16K	-	-	T	2026-01-28	Details
Trinity Large Preview arcee-ai/trinity-large-preview	opencode	524K	-	-	T Tools	2026-01-27	Details
DeepSeek OCR 2 deepseek/deepseek-ocr-2	regolo-ai	8.19K	-	-	T	2026-01-27	Details
Nemotron Content Safety Reasoning 4B nvidia/nemotron-content-safety-reasoning-4b	nvidia	128K	-	-	T	2026-01-22	Details
GLM-4.7-Flash zhipuai/glm-4.7-flash	zhipuai zai pendra huggingface tempr	2K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2026-01-19	Details
GLM-Image zhipuai/glm-image	zenmux	10.2K	-	-	T	2026-01-14	Details
Orpheus V1 English canopylabs/orpheus-v1-english	groq	4K	-	-	T	2025-12-19	Details
Llama Nemotron Embed VL 1B v2 nvidia/llama-nemotron-embed-vl-1b-v2	nvidia	10.2K	-	-	T	2025-12-18	Details
Llama Nemotron Rerank VL 1B v2 nvidia/llama-nemotron-rerank-vl-1b-v2	nvidia	10.2K	-	-	T	2025-12-18	Details
Orpheus Arabic Saudi canopylabs/orpheus-arabic-saudi	groq	4K	-	-	T	2025-12-16	Details
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b	nvidia	262K	9	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2025-12-15	Details
Devstral Small 2 mistral/devstral-small-2	mistral	262K	-	-	T Tools	2025-12-09	Details
GLM-4.6V-Flash zhipuai/glm-4.6v-flash	zhipuai zai tempr	128K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2025-12-08	Details
Nova 2 Lite amazon/nova-2-lite	nova	1M	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2025-12-02	Details
Nova 2 Lite amazon/nova-2-lite-v1	nova	1M	13	-	T Reasoning Tools	2025-12-02	Details
GPT-Image-1.5 openai/gpt-image-1.5	poe	Not documented	-	-	T	2025-11-25	Details
Grok 4.1 Fast (Reasoning) xai/grok-4.1-fast-reasoning	poe	2M	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2025-11-19	Details
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Safety Guard 8B v3 nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-safety-guard-8b-v3	nvidia	128K	-	-	T	2025-10-28	Details
Nemotron Nano 12B v2 VL nvidia/nemotron-nano-12b-v2-vl	nvidia	128K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2025-10-28	Details
Llama Nemotron Embed 1B v2 nvidia/llama-nemotron-embed-1b-v2	sap-ai-core	8.19K	-	-	T	2025-10-16	Details
Veo 3.1 Fast Preview google/veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview	google	1.02K	-	-	T	2025-10-15	Details
Veo 3.1 Preview google/veo-3.1-generate-preview	google	1.02K	-	-	T	2025-10-15	Details
GPT OSS 120B openai/gpt-oss-120b	nvidia qvac pendra	131K	12	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2025-08-05	Details
GPT OSS 20B openai/gpt-oss-20b	lmstudio nvidia qvac	131K	10	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2025-08-05	Details
Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct alibaba/qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instruct	pendra	262K	-	-	T Tools Structured output	2025-07-31	Details
GLM-4.5-Flash zhipuai/glm-4.5-flash	zhipuai zai tempr	131K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2025-07-28	Details
Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1.5 nvidia/llama-3.3-nemotron-super-49b-v1.5	nvidia	131K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2025-07-25	Details
Gemma 3n E2B IT google/gemma-3n-e2b-it	nvidia	32.8K	-	-	T	2025-06-26	Details
Gemma 3n E4B IT google/gemma-3n-e4b-it	nvidia	32.8K	-	-	T	2025-06-26	Details
Gemini Embedding 001 google/gemini-embedding-001	sap-ai-core	2.05K	-	-	T	2025-05-20	Details
Mistral Medium 3 mistral/mistral-medium-2505	nvidia	131K	-	-	T Tools Structured output	2025-05-07	Details
Mistral Medium 3 mistral/mistral-medium-3	nvidia	131K	-	-	T Tools Structured output	2025-05-07	Details
Llama Guard 4 12B meta/llama-guard-4-12b	nvidia	164K	-	-	T	2025-04-29	Details
GPT-Image-1 openai/gpt-image-1	poe	Not documented	-	-	T Tools	2025-04-24	Details
o3 openai/o3	github-models	2K	20	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2025-04-16	Details
o4-mini openai/o4-mini	github-models	2K	17	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2025-04-16	Details
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B Instruct nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-70b-instruct	nvidia	128K	-	-	T Tools	2025-04-15	Details
GPT-4.1 openai/gpt-4.1	github-models	1.05M	13	-	T Tools Structured output	2025-04-14	Details
GPT-4.1 mini openai/gpt-4.1-mini	github-models	1.05M	10	-	T Tools Structured output	2025-04-14	Details
GPT-4.1 nano openai/gpt-4.1-nano	github-models	1.05M	8	-	T Tools Structured output	2025-04-14	Details
Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253B nvidia/llama-3.1-nemotron-ultra-253b	nvidia	128K	-	-	T Reasoning Tools	2025-04-07	Details
Llama 3.3 Nemotron Super 49B v1 nvidia/llama-3.3-nemotron-super-49b-v1	nvidia	131K	-	-	T	2025-03-18	Details
Gemma 3 12B IT google/gemma-3-12b-it	nvidia	131K	4	-	T Tools Structured output	2025-03-12	Details
Gemma 3 4B IT google/gemma-3-4b-it	nvidia	131K	5	-	T Tools Structured output	2025-03-12	Details
Aya Vision 32B cohere/c4ai-aya-vision-32b	cohere	16K	-	-	T	2025-03-04	Details
Aya Vision 8B cohere/c4ai-aya-vision-8b	cohere	16K	-	-	T	2025-03-04	Details
Phi-4-multimodal-instruct microsoft/phi-4-multimodal-instruct	nvidia	131K	-	-	T	2025-02-26	Details
ALLaM-2-7b sdaia/allam-2-7b	groq tempr	4.1K	-	-	T	2025-01-23	Details
DeepSeek-R1 deepseek/deepseek-r1	github-models	128K	11	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2025-01-20	Details
o3-mini openai/o3-mini	github-models	2K	12	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2024-12-20	Details
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct	github-models nvidia llama pendra	128K	-	-	T Tools Structured output	2024-12-06	Details
o1 openai/o1	github-models	2K	15	-	T Reasoning Tools Structured output	2024-12-05	Details
Aya Expanse 8B cohere/c4ai-aya-expanse-8b	cohere	8K	-	-	T	2024-10-24	Details
Llama-3.2-11B-Vision-Instruct meta/llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct	nvidia	128K	-	-	T Tools	2024-09-25	Details
Llama 3.2 1B Instruct meta/llama-3.2-1b-instruct	nvidia	131K	-	-	T	2024-09-25	Details
Llama 3.2 3B Instruct meta/llama-3.2-3b-instruct	nvidia	131K	-	-	T	2024-09-25	Details
Llama-3.2-90B-Vision-Instruct meta/llama-3.2-90b-vision-instruct	nvidia	128K	-	-	T Tools	2024-09-25	Details
Nemotron Mini 4B Instruct nvidia/nemotron-mini-4b-instruct	nvidia	128K	-	-	T	2024-08-21	Details
Dracarys Llama 3.1 70B Instruct abacusai/dracarys-llama-3.1-70b-instruct	nvidia	131K	-	-	T	2024-08-14	Details
Gemma 2 2B IT google/gemma-2-2b-it	nvidia	8.19K	-	-	T	2024-07-31	Details
Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct meta/llama-3.1-70b-instruct	nvidia	128K	-	-	T Tools Structured output	2024-07-23	Details
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct meta/llama-3.1-8b-instruct	nvidia	128K	-	-	T Tools Structured output	2024-07-23	Details
Mistral Nemo mistral/mistral-nemo	github-models	128K	-	-	T Tools Structured output	2024-07-18	Details
GPT-4o mini openai/gpt-4o-mini	github-models	128K	7	-	T Tools Structured output	2024-07-18	Details
GPT-4o openai/gpt-4o	github-models poe	128K	-	-	T Tools Structured output	2024-05-13	Details
BGE M3 baai/bge-m3	nvidia	8.19K	-	-	T	2024-01-30	Details
Whisper 3 Large openai/whisper-large-v3	nvidia	448	-	-		2023-11-06	Details

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1. Pick a model from the list

The table above shows 151 free models with their providers, context lengths, and capabilities. Sort by context, performance, or featured provider to find what fits your use case.

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Click any model name to see the full Providers & pricing table — the provider name links directly to that provider's documentation page where you can sign up and get an API key.

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