Free RAG AI tiers and credits

Compare source-backed free offers from AI providers in RAG. Records show available allowance details, conditions, official evidence, and review dates.

24 providers · source-backed records with verification dates

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AI21 Labs

Provider of large language models (e.g., Jurassic, Jamba) offering API access and pre-trained models.

$10 credit for 3 months

Inference Embeddings RAG

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Anthropic (Claude)

LLM-based conversational AI models (Claude family) with API access for text generation and reasoning tasks.

Free tier

Inference RAG Search

Active · verified 2026-07-17

AWS Activate / Amazon Bedrock

AWS program providing startups with credits and technical support; includes Amazon Bedrock generative AI services.

Up to $200K credit

Infrastructure RAG Search Hosting

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Cloudinary

Cloudinary provides image/video APIs, transformation, optimization, and delivery.

25 credits/mo

Image Gen Video Gen RAG

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Cohere

Provides generative language models, embeddings, and reranking services via API with evaluation and production keys.

1K requests/mo

Inference Embeddings RAG Search

Active · verified 2026-07-19

Confident AI / DeepEval

Confident AI / DeepEval provides LLM evaluation/testing and observability.

Free tier

Evaluation Observability RAG Prompt Eng.

Active · verified 2026-07-17

E2B

E2B provides code execution and cloud sandboxes for AI agents.

Free tier

RAG Infrastructure Agents

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Future AGI

Future AGI provides agent evaluation, simulation, observability, gateway, and guardrails.

2K credits/mo + 100K requests/mo

Real-time Voice Evaluation Observability RAG

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Google Cloud AI Startup Program

Google Cloud startup program offering free credits and support, including generative AI and Vertex AI services.

Up to $350K credit

Infrastructure RAG Search Hosting

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Helicone

Helicone provides LLM observability, gateway, caching, and prompt/evaluation tooling.

10K requests/mo

Evaluation Observability RAG Inference

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Hugging Face

Hosts a large catalog of AI models and offers a unified Inference API and hub for model sharing and deployment.

$0.1 credits

Embeddings RAG Inference Hosting

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Inference.net

Serverless API platform for generative models offering both free and paid tiers.

1.0M requests/mo + 1.0M spans/mo

Inference Embeddings RAG Infrastructure

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Jina AI

Jina AI provides embeddings, search, reranking, multimodal, and document AI.

10.0M tokens

Document AI Search Embeddings RAG

Active · verified 2026-07-17

LlamaCloud / LlamaParse

Hosted document parsing, agentic OCR, structured extraction, and document workflow APIs from LlamaIndex.

10K credits/mo

Document AI RAG Agents Workflows

Active · verified 2026-07-19

Mem0

Mem0 provides agent memory and personalization.

10K requests/mo + 1K requests/mo

Search RAG Agents

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Milvus (Zilliz Cloud)

Open-source vector database with cloud service (Zilliz Cloud) for high-scale retrieval and similarity search.

5 GB

Vector DB RAG Embeddings Search

Active · verified 2026-07-17

NVIDIA NIM

NVIDIA's generative AI microservices platform providing hosted models via API for text and speech tasks.

Free tier

Inference Embeddings RAG Infrastructure

Active · verified 2026-07-17

OpenAI

Provides GPT family of language models, embeddings, image generation (DALL-E) and speech models via APIs.

Free tier

Inference Image Gen Embeddings RAG

Active · verified 2026-07-17

OpenRouter is a unified API platform that provides developers with access to a wide variety of large language models from multiple providers through a standardized interface, simplifying integration and optimizing model usage.

50 requests/day

Inference RAG Search Hosting

Active · verified 2026-07-17