mnfst/awesome-free-llm-apis

List of Permanent Free LLM API (API Keys)

Language modelsJavaScript#ai-agents#anthropic#gemini#llm#llm-router

3.8 Breakout Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 20, 2026.

About the project

A list of LLM APIs with permanent free tiers: model providers and inference platforms with rate limits, models and links to get API keys. Aimed at developers who need free LLM access for prototypes and agents.

Useful for

Pick a free API key for an LLM app prototype
Compare provider rate limits and models before choosing a backend
Plug an OpenAI-compatible endpoint into existing code

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

24 stars so far today, about 71 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 30 per day, so that's 2.4× as much.
Over the last two days the pace is 3.2× that of the previous week and a half.
The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #4, +138 stars.
About 23 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 7,885
Stars in a day: 71
Forks: 753
Issues and pull requests: 95
Watchers: 105
Language: JavaScript
License: CC0-1.0
Created: March 21, 2026
Last push: August 21, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 20, 2026GitHub Trending JavaScript today: #4, +138 stars

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