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Serverless AI inference. $10 free credits.

LLMest. 2023 · San Jose, CA
87
/ 100 APIVault Score

// At a glance

Free Tier
$10 credits · no card
Category
LLM
Credit Card
Not required
Last Verified
2m ago

// Free tier details

Available Models

Llama 3.1 70BLlama 3.1 8BMixtral

Monthly Requests

$10 free credits

No credit card needed
No phone verification

// Quick start

300">"text-purple-400">from openai 300">"text-purple-400">import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    api_key=300">"YOUR_LEPTON_KEY",
    base_url=300">"https://llama3-1-70b.lepton.run/api/v1",
)

response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model=300">"llama3-1-70b",
    messages=[{300">"role": 300">"user", 300">"content": 300">"Hello."}],
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)

// Overview

Lepton AI provides serverless hosting for popular open-source LLMs with OpenAI-compatible endpoints. $10 free credits on signup, no credit card needed.

// Pros

  • OpenAI-compatible
  • $10 free credits no card
  • Serverless — no infra

// Cons

  • Limited model selection
  • Smaller brand

// Score breakdown

Reliability (35%) (from 2m ago health check)100/100
Free Tier Generosity (30%) (computed from quota, no-CC, no-phone fields)85/100
Documentation (20%) (human rating)80/100
Popularity (15%) (GitHub stars (log-normalised), or manual baseline)72/100

Methodology: apivault.dev/methodology

// Best for

Quick prototypingServerless LLMOSS inference