Usage-based free AI tiers

AI providers with recurring free request, token, minute, storage, or compute allowances.

60 providers · source-backed records with verification dates

Amazon Polly

AWS text-to-speech service offering natural sounding voices and multiple languages; integrated with AWS ecosystem.

5.0M characters/mo + 1.0M characters/mo for 12 months

Active · verified 2026-09-19

Amazon Transcribe

Automatic speech recognition service that transcribes audio to text and provides analytics.

60 minutes/mo for 12 months

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

Active · verified 2026-07-17

AssemblyAI

Speech recognition API that provides transcription, summarization and audio intelligence services with generous free usage.

$50 credit

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Baseten

Serverless GPU platform for deploying and scaling AI models with a usage-based pricing model.

Free tier

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Cohere

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

1K requests/mo

Active · verified 2026-07-19

Composio

Composio provides agent tools, integrations, and tool routing.

100K tool calls/mo + 50K triggers/mo

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Google Cloud Text-to-Speech

Generates natural-sounding speech from text using Google's deep learning models.

4.0M characters/mo + 1.0M characters/mo

Active · verified 2026-09-19

IBM Watson Text-to-Speech

Text-to-speech service with various voices and expressive options.

10K characters/mo

Active · verified 2026-09-13

JigsawStack

JigsawStack provides a multi-model AI API platform.

1.0M tokens/mo

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Kling AI

Kling AI is a text-to-video platform with free access and optional referral bonuses; current recurring credit terms are not publicly established.

Free tier

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Mem0

Mem0 provides agent memory and personalization.

10K requests/mo + 1K requests/mo

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Mistral AI (Experiment plan)

French LLM provider Mistral AI offers an experimental plan for developers to try its LLMs with rate-limited free usage.

Free tier

Active · verified 2026-07-19

OpenRouter

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

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Replicate

Replicate is a model marketplace and inference platform where developers can run open-source and proprietary AI models via web or API. Select models can be run for free for a limited number of runs before billing is required.

Free tier

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Runpod

Cloud platform providing on-demand GPUs, serverless compute and multi-node clusters for AI workloads.

$1K credit

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Sightengine

Sightengine provides visual/text moderation, synthetic-media detection, and safety APIs.

2K operations/mo

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Synthesia

Generative video platform offering AI avatars, dubbing and voiceovers for business communication.

10 minutes/mo

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Upstage (Solar)

Korean AI company providing Solar LLM and related APIs for text generation and chat.

$10 credit

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Vercel AI Gateway

API gateway for LLMs enabling request routing and caching across multiple model providers, integrated with the Vercel platform.

Free tier

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Common questions

What is a usage-based free AI tier?

It is a recurring allowance of requests, tokens, minutes, storage, or compute. The free quantity and reset period vary by provider. The directory records each allowance with a source link when a numeric limit is available.