May 1, 2026·4 min read

20+ APIs Without Credit Card

Sign up with just an email. Every AI API on this list has a free tier with no credit card required.

Need an AI API but don't want to enter a credit card? Every provider below lets you sign up with just an email.

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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