Free AI models: 80 with an API tier you can test without a card

Free tier

Services found: 80

#	AI model	API $/1M (in / out)	Context window	Price / mo	Output $/1M	Overview
41	Magistral Medium 1.2 Mistral AI		128K tokens	API only		View
42	Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba	$2 / $6	1M tokens	API only	6	View
43	Qwen3 VL Plus Alibaba	$0.2 / $1.6	256K tokens	API only	1.6	View
44	Qwen3 VL Flash Alibaba	$0.05 / $0.4	256K tokens	API only	0.4	View
45	GLM 5.2 Z.ai	$0.966 / $3.036	1.05M tokens	API only	3.036	View
46	DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek	$0.269 / $0.4	163.8K tokens	API only	0.4	View
47	Gemma 4 26B A4B Google	$0.07 / $0.34	262.1K tokens	API only	0.34	View
48	Qwen3.7 Flash Qwen	$0.03 / $0.13	1M tokens	API only	0.13	View
49	Qwen3.8 Flash Qwen	$0.15 / $0.47	1M tokens	API only	0.47	View
50	Qwen3.5-Flash Qwen	$0.065 / $0.26	1M tokens	API only	0.26	View
51	Qwen3.6 35B A3B Qwen	$0.1 / $0.9	262.1K tokens	API only	0.9	View
52	GLM 4.7 Z.ai	$0.4 / $1.75	204.8K tokens	API only	1.75	View
53	Qwen3.5-35B-A3B Qwen	$0.3125 / $1.25	262.1K tokens	API only	1.25	View
54	GLM 5 Z.ai	$0.6 / $1.92	204.8K tokens	API only	1.92	View
55	Qwen3.5-9B Qwen	$0.1 / $0.15	262.1K tokens	API only	0.15	View
56	Qwen3 VL 32B Instruct Qwen	$0.104 / $0.416	131.1K tokens	API only	0.416	View
57	Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct Qwen	$0.21 / $1.9	262.1K tokens	API only	1.9	View
58	Qwen3.6 Plus Qwen	$0.325 / $1.95	1M tokens	API only	1.95	View
59	GLM 4.7 Flash Z.ai	$0.0605 / $0.4	202.8K tokens	API only	0.4	View
60	Qwen3 VL 8B Instruct Qwen	$0.117 / $0.455	262.1K tokens	API only	0.455	View

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Reasoning models169 models

Coding assistants17 models

Vision and images156 models

Long context 1M+82 models

Free tier available80 models

Open weights88 models

Eighty-six models here offer a real free allowance on the API - enough to build and test without a card on file. Google, Alibaba, DeepSeek, Mistral and Z.ai are the vendors to start with; GLM 5.3, GLM 5.3 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash lead the list.

Free tiers are rate-limited rather than unlimited, usually expressed in requests per minute and tokens per day. Alibaba Model Studio grants roughly a million tokens per model on a 90-day window; Google publishes limits inside AI Studio rather than in its docs. Treat the free tier as a development budget, not a production plan.

Development budgetEnough to build and evaluate, never enough to serve production.

Limits are per minuteRate caps bite before token caps do.

Quality is identicalFree tiers run the same weights, not a weaker variant.

Models with this capability

The 80 models below all support this capability. Prices are input and output per 1M tokens from the vendor official price list; for dirhams multiply by 3.6725. Tap a card to open the model page.

GLM 5.3

Z.ai

in $1.4out $4.41.31M tokens

GLM 5.3 Flash

Z.ai

in $0.075out $0.251.31M tokens

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Google DeepMind

in $0.75out $3.751.05M tokens

Qwen3.8 Max (0902)

Alibaba (Qwen)

in $2out $61M tokens