Free plans (11)
Their limits are stated in different terms, so they aren't ranked against each other. Ordered by first paid price.
| Tool | Stated limits | What makes you upgrade | First paid price | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Hugging FaceRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Free account with unlimited public models, datasets and applications; paid plans add private storage, compute and team features"Host and collaborate on unlimited public models, datasets and applications."Source | Paid plans add private storage, compute and team features | $9/moPRO | Free plan |
 Mistral AIRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Free plan with limited access to Vibe (chat, search, creation, coding) and access to Mistral Studio; messages, web searches and coding sessions are limited"Yes, Mistral’s Free plan provides limited access to"Source | Free cap: Limited messages, web searches and coding sessions | $14.99/moPro | Free plan |
 Anthropic ClaudeRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Free plan with chat on web, desktop and mobile, web search, file creation, memory, Artifacts and up to 5 projects, subject to usage limits"Free for everyone"Source | Not found | $20/moPro | Free plan |
| OpenAIRead Oct 29, 2026 | A free version of ChatGPT is available to everyone (consumer plan); details not given on these pages."The free version of ChatGPT is available to everyone."Source | Not found | $25/userBusiness Standard seat | Free plan |
 UpstageRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Studio agents include 10 free runs with no credit card; File Search beta is free; Free Tier API exists per privacy page; eligible schools, hospitals and nonprofits get free access to Solar Pro and Document Parse for up to one year"Every agent includes 10 free runs — test with real documents, no credit card required."Source | Not found | $100/moCommitment tier Explore | Free plan |
 Alibaba QwenRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Qwen assistant is free to use and open to all; no paid terms stated on this page"It’s free to use, open to all, and ready to help with creativity, collaboration, and endless possibilities."Source | Not found | No price found | Free plan |
 Databricks Mosaic AIRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Databricks Community Edition is a free, limited functionality platform for learning Spark; a Free Edition is also linked for learning data and AI tools for free."Databricks Community Edition is a free, limited functionality platform designed for anyone who wants to learn Spark."Source | Not found | No price found | Free plan |
 Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformRead Oct 29, 2026 |
A free usage tier renews monthly per account for each Agent resource (50 compute hours, 100 GiB-hours memory, 1 GiB-month storage); usage above that is billed at the listed rates."A free usage tier applies per month, per account for each resource."Source | Not found | $0.085/vCPU-hour | Free plan |
 Google GeminiRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Free tier gives limited access to certain models with free input and output tokens plus Google AI Studio access; content is used to improve Google products."For developers and small projects getting started with the Gemini API."Source | Paid tier removes the free limits and adds higher rate limits | $0.25/1M tokens | Free plan |
 OpenRouterRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Free plan with 25+ free models and 4 free providers; free models capped at 20 requests per minute and 50 per day, rising to 1,000 per day after buying at least $10 of credits"Free models are capped at 20 requests per minute and 50 per day, rising to 1,000 per day once your account has bought at least $10 of credits."Source | Not found | $5.50/unit | Free plan |
 xAI GrokRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Free Console account with a Playground to test Grok models; API usage itself is billed per token"API usage is billed per token rather than free, but the Playground comes with every Console account, so you can test the latest Grok models before..."Source | Not found | $2/1M input tokens | Free plan |
Time-limited or one-off (1)
Listed as free on the vendor's page, but the allowance runs out or doesn't renew. Not counted as free plans above.
| Tool | Stated limits | What makes you upgrade | First paid price | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 CohereRead Oct 29, 2026 |
Free Trial API key, rate limited, not for production or commercial use"API calls made from a Trial API key are free. However, trial keys are rate limited and are not permitted to be used for production or commercial..."Source | Not found | $3/hour per instance | Time-limited |
Free trial only (3)
- AI21 Labs: $10 credits for 7 days, no credit card needed
- Anyscale: $100 in Anyscale credits on signup (one-time credit, not time-limited as stated)
- Fireworks AI: Muse Glimmer 30B SFT free via UI and Serverless Training API until 11/30, no credit card required
Questions
Which large language models are free?
11 have a free plan you can keep, including Alibaba Qwen, Anthropic Claude, Databricks Mosaic AI, Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Google Gemini, Hugging Face.
What do you pay after a free plan?
The lowest first paid price among tools with a free plan is $9/mo (Hugging Face). Read from each vendor's own page.
How this page is made
Every limit is the vendor's own, read from its pages and quoted. A tool counts as a free plan when the text describes something you can keep using; a fixed number of days or a single batch of credits is listed separately. We don't test the plans. How prices are read.