Free AI models
Free Chinese AI models
Free models and APIs from Chinese labs and clouds: DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, Hunyuan, ERNIE, Spark and more.
ⓘ Free terms change often. Always confirm limits, data-use policy and regional availability on the official page before relying on a free tier.
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MiniMax · OpenRouter
Free API TextVisionVideo 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Free “:free” variant on OpenRouter – rate-limited, no charge.
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · Cloudflare Workers AI
Free API Text
10,000 free Neurons per day on the Workers Free plan (shared across models, resets 00:00 UTC).
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Alibaba Qwen · Groq
Free API TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 128K
Callable on Groq’s Free Plan.
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iFlytek Spark · iFlytek Open Platform
Free API Text 8K
Official docs say Lite “can be used for free”; claim the free quota on the product page.
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ModelScope (Alibaba) · ModelScope
Free API Text
ModelScope offers a free, OpenAI-compatible inference API for selected open models, called with a ModelScope access token.
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Baidu ERNIE · Baidu Qianfan
Free API Text 128K
Free preset service on Qianfan, which Baidu says is “planned to stay open long-term”; enable it with “free activation” in the console.
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Baidu ERNIE · Baidu Qianfan
Free API Text 8K
Free preset service on Qianfan, which Baidu says is “planned to stay open long-term”; enable it with “free activation” in the console.
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Baidu ERNIE · Baidu Qianfan
Free API Text 128K
Free preset service on Qianfan, which Baidu says is “planned to stay open long-term”; enable it with “free activation” in the console.
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Baidu ERNIE · Baidu Qianfan
Free API Text 8K
Free preset service on Qianfan, which Baidu says is “planned to stay open long-term”; enable it with “free activation” in the console.
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Baidu ERNIE · Baidu Qianfan
Free API Text 8K
Free preset service on Qianfan, which Baidu says is “planned to stay open long-term”; enable it with “free activation” in the console.
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BAAI · SiliconFlow
Free API Embedding
Marked “free” on SiliconFlow’s pricing page.
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BAAI · SiliconFlow
Free API Embedding
Marked “free” on SiliconFlow’s pricing page.
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Tencent Hunyuan · SiliconFlow
Free API Text
Marked “free” on SiliconFlow’s pricing page.
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Kuaishou Kolors · SiliconFlow
Free API Image generation
Marked “free” on SiliconFlow’s pricing page.
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Baidu ERNIE · SiliconFlow
Free API Vision
Marked “free” on SiliconFlow’s pricing page.
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Alibaba Tongyi FunAudioLLM · SiliconFlow
Free API Audio
Marked “free” on SiliconFlow’s pricing page.
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China Telecom XingChen · SiliconFlow
Free API Text
Marked “free” on SiliconFlow’s pricing page.
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · Zhipu BigModel platform
Free API Video generation
Listed under Zhipu BigModel’s “free models”; calls are free of charge.
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · Zhipu BigModel platform
Free API Image generation
Listed under Zhipu BigModel’s “free models”; calls are free of charge.
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · Zhipu BigModel platform
Free API TextVisionVideo
Listed under Zhipu BigModel’s “free models”; calls are free of charge.
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · Zhipu BigModel platform
Free API TextVision
Listed under Zhipu BigModel’s “free models”; calls are free of charge.
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · Zhipu BigModel platform
Free API Text 🛠 Tool calling 195K
Listed under Zhipu BigModel’s “free models”; calls are free of charge.
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · Zhipu BigModel platform
Free API TextVision
Listed under Zhipu BigModel’s “free models”; calls are free of charge.
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DeepSeek · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Ant Group inclusionAI (Ling) · Hugging Face
Open weights Text
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Xiaomi MiMo · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Xiaomi MiMo · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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DeepSeek · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Tencent Hunyuan · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Alibaba Qwen · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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DeepSeek · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Alibaba Qwen · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Alibaba Qwen · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Ant Group inclusionAI (Ling) · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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DeepSeek · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Meituan LongCat · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Tencent Hunyuan · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Moonshot AI (Kimi) · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Moonshot AI (Kimi) · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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MiniMax · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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StepFun · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Tencent Hunyuan · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Xiaomi MiMo · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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DeepSeek · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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DeepSeek · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 1M
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Alibaba Qwen · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Alibaba Qwen · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Moonshot AI (Kimi) · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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MiniMax · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 200K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Alibaba Qwen · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Alibaba Qwen · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Alibaba Qwen · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Alibaba Qwen · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Alibaba Qwen · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 🛠 Tool calling 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Shanghai AI Lab InternLM · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · Hugging Face
Open weights Vision 128K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Alibaba Qwen · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 256K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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DeepSeek · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 8K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Alibaba Qwen · Hugging Face
Open weights Speech
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 198K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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DeepSeek · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 160K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Tencent Hunyuan · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 128K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Moonshot AI (Kimi) · Hugging Face
Open weights Text
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Baidu ERNIE · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 128K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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ByteDance Seed · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 512K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Baidu ERNIE · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 128K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Alibaba Qwen · Hugging Face
Open weights Embedding 32K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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DeepSeek · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 🛠 Tool calling 160K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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ByteDance Seed · Hugging Face
Open weights TextVision 125K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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01.AI · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 128K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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01.AI · Hugging Face
Open weights Text 4K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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BAAI · Hugging Face
Open weights Embedding 8K
Weights are free to download and run locally or on your own servers – no per-call fees; licence terms apply.
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Xiaomi MiMo · OpenCode Zen
Limited-time free Text
A free model in OpenCode Zen’s current model list (ID ends in -free) – a promotion that can end at any time.
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Alibaba Qwen · Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Bailian)
New-user credit Text
Granted on first activation: a separate quota per model (usually 1M tokens each), valid 90 days; dated snapshots count as separate models.
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Alibaba Qwen · Cerebras
New-user credit TextVision 64K
New accounts get a one-time $5 credit after adding a verified payment method, valid 30 days; there is no permanent free tier.
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Moonshot AI (Kimi) · Kimi Open Platform
New-user credit Text
After registering with a mainland phone number and real-name verification, you get a ¥15 voucher valid 3 months; not usable for Kimi K3.
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Baidu ERNIE · Baidu Qianfan
New-user credit Text
Granted on first activation: 1M tokens each for 17 models (ERNIE-4.5-Turbo, ERNIE-X1-Turbo, DeepSeek-R1/V3/V3.1, Kimi-K2-Instruct, Qwen3 models…), valid 3 months.
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Tencent Hunyuan · Tencent Cloud TokenHub
New-user credit Text
Once per main account: 1M tokens for every language and multimodal-understanding model, valid 1 year; auto-claimed on first call.
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ByteDance Seed · Volcengine Ark
New-user credit Text
Registering a Volcengine account grants free inference quota, counted per model and shared across the main account.
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DeepSeek · AtomGit AtomCode
Limited-time free Unverified Text
A user article on Tencent Cloud’s developer community says AtomGit’s AtomCode CodingPlan gives free DeepSeek-V4-Flash calls (5-hour rolling quota, 30-day validity, renewable, AtomCode client only).
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DeepSeek · CodeBuddy / WorkBuddy (Tencent)
Limited-time free Expired Text 1M
Per third-party promo trackers, CodeBuddy/WorkBuddy (international) offered DeepSeek V4.1 Flash free until 2026-09-25.
Free until 2026-09-25 Verified: Details →
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DeepSeek · OpenCode Zen
Limited-time free Expired Text 1M
OpenCode Zen once offered DeepSeek V4 Flash free for a limited time; the promotion has ended and the ID is gone from the list.
Free until 2026-08-21 Verified: Details →
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Ant Group inclusionAI (Ling) · OpenRouter
Free API Removed Text 🛠 Tool calling 256K
Model listed at $0 by the OpenRouter models API.
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Zhipu AI (Z.ai) · Zhipu BigModel platform
Free API Retired Text 🛠 Tool calling 128K
Former free model, retired on 2026-01-30; requests are routed to GLM-4.7-Flash.
Free until 2026-01-30 Verified: Details →