🚀 Want FREE models you can plug into OpenClaw or Hermes?

Here are 9 resources you can use for free access to model APIs
No local setup, no credit card, just pure cloud APIs with OpenAI-compatible endpoints
You can’t get free Opus quality (yet) but all of these have genuine free tiers right now (rate limits may apply) and are good enough to get started if you don’t want to spend $ to get started with agents
1️⃣ OpenRouter Free Models
(Gemma 4 31B/26B, NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super 120B MoE, MiniMax M2.5, Qwen3 variants, Llama 4/3.3, gpt-oss-120B, Arcee Trinity, etc.)
• ~29 completely free $0/M token models
• Insane variety + top-tier open model evals (especially coding & agents)
• Best for rotating models automatically
👉 Sign up:
2️⃣ Google Gemini API
(Gemini 2.5 Pro / Flash series)
• Strongest overall free frontier model
• Excellent multimodal, 1M+ context, native tool calling & agentic performance
• Very generous free limits (often 5–15 RPM)
👉 Sign up:
3️⃣ NVIDIA
(Nemotron variants, Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen3 235B, Mistral Large, etc.)
• Optimized high-performance open models
• Free prototyping tier (~40 RPM)
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4️⃣ Grok Cloud
(Llama 4 Scout, Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen3 32B, gpt-oss models, etc.)
• Blazing-fast inference (hundreds of tokens/sec)
• Perfect for real-time agents
• Strong open-model performance with solid free tier
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5️⃣ Cerebras Cloud
(Qwen3 235B, Llama 3.3 70B, DeepSeek variants, etc.)
• Massive models with excellent reasoning/coding evals
• Very generous daily free limits (~30 RPM, up to 1M+ tokens/day on some)
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6️⃣ Mistral La Plateforme
(Mistral Large 3, Small 3.1, Ministral 8B, etc.)
• Strong in coding, multilingual & agentic tasks
• Solid free tier (~1 req/s, ~1B tokens/month)
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7️⃣ Cohere
(Command A, Command R+, Aya Expanse 32B, etc.)
• Free tier: 20 RPM, 1K requests/month
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8️⃣ GitHub Models
(Llama 3.3 70B, DeepSeek R1, some GPT-4o previews, etc.)
• Decent mid-tier evals with easy GitHub integration
• Free tier limits (10–15 RPM)
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9️⃣ Cloudflare Workers AI
(Llama 3.3 70B, Qwen QwQ 32B, etc.)
• Lightweight but solid for simple agents
• Free tier: 10K neurons/day
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Pro tips for agent builders:
• Most work instantly with OpenAI SDK (just change base URL + your key)
• Start with OpenRouter for quality/variety (they often feature new free models)
• Add Groq as speed fallback
• Rotate providers when you hit caps
Free intelligence for your agent is just a signup away!