May 1, 2026·4 min read
20+ APIs Without Credit Card
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The full list
All 20 providers we track have credit-card-free tiers. Here's the breakdown by category:
LLM APIs
- Groq — 14,400 req/day
- OpenRouter — 20 req/day on free models
- DeepSeek — 5M tokens free
- Mistral — 500k tokens/month
- HuggingFace — $0.10/month serverless
- Fireworks — $1 credit
- Together — $5 credit
- Cohere — 1k requests/month
- Lemonfox — $0.20 credit
Image APIs
- Fal — $1 credit + 100 req/day
- Replicate — $5 credit
- Leonardo — 150 tokens/day (phone required)
- Stability — 25 credits
Speech APIs
- Deepgram — $200 credits
- ElevenLabs — 10k characters/month
- AssemblyAI — $50 credits
Other
- Jina — 1M tokens (embeddings)
- Voyage — 50M tokens for 3 months (embeddings)
- Perplexity — $5 credits (search)
- Modal — $30/month compute
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96/100OROpenRouter
94/100DSDeepSeek
93/100FFal
92/100TGTogether
91/100DGDeepgram
90/100HFHuggingFace Inference
89/100MMistral AI
90/100RReplicate
86/10011ElevenLabs
88/100JJina AI
91/100FWFireworks AI
88/100VVoyage AI
89/100AAAssemblyAI
87/100LLeonardo.AI
85/100PPerplexity
87/100SStability AI
84/100MoModal
86/100LFLemonfox.ai
80/100CCohere
85/100