Cerebras no longer has a no-card free tier: new accounts get of credit expiring in 30 days, and must add a payment method. Groq measured 527 tok/s and still needs no card.
We benchmarked Mistral free tier in August 2026: 0.43s to first token and 167 tok/s, second only to Groq. OpenAI-SDK compatible, no credit card.
GitHub Models was fully retired on July 30, 2026 — the API now returns 410. Here are the free AI APIs we benchmarked as replacements, with real speed numbers.
n8n is the open-source Zapier alternative built for developers — 400+ integrations, AI agent nodes powered by OpenAI, Anthropic, or Ollama, fair-code...
Vercel, Netlify and Cloudflare Pages now meter three different things: CPU hours, a 300-credit pool, and requests. Re-verified free-tier numbers for 2026.
The free Workers plan gives 10,000 neurons a day across 82 models. Converted into real usage that is about 15-25 text generations, or roughly 230 FLUX images - one shared budget, no card, hard-stops instead of billing.
Railway's Free plan is $0/month with $1 of usage credit included, plus a one-time $5 credit for the first 30 days. An always-on 256 MB database costs about $2.50/month and overruns that allowance.
Oracle Cloud Always Free now gives 2 OCPUs and 12 GB of ARM memory (halved June 2026), plus 200 GB block storage and 10 TB egress per month, with no expiry.
Learn how to use Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect AI models to any tool, API, or data source. Includes free official MCP servers, Python and...
Google NotebookLM is a free AI research tool that lets you upload PDFs, Google Docs, and YouTube videos, then ask questions grounded in your own sources.
