Verified this week — Issue #16

Sat, Oct 17, 2026

Verified this week — Issue #16

Best free AI tools for Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs

Developer infrastructure hosts models, serverless AI, databases, and inference APIs with generous free tiers. Vercel, Supabase, Cloudflare Workers AI, Groq, Hugging Face, and Replicate credits power AI features in your apps. Essential for builders shipping LLM products on a shoestring.

Vercel

Free plan

Frontend cloud with AI SDK, v0, and serverless deployments.

Hobby $0/mo for personal projects

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs

Supabase

Free plan

Postgres backend with auth, storage, vectors, and Edge Functions.

Free $0/month: 500 MB database, 50,000 MAUs, 2 active projects

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs

Run open models on Cloudflare edge with generous free allowance.

Workers Free $0: 100,000 requests/day

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs

Hugging Face

Free plan

Model hub, Inference API free credits, and Spaces hosting.

Free CPU Basic Spaces and ZeroGPU access; PRO adds $2/month inference credits

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs

GroqCloud

Free plan

Ultra-fast inference API for open models like Llama and Mixtral.

Free Plan with per-model rate limits

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs

Neon

Free plan

Serverless Postgres with branching for dev and AI apps.

Free $0: 100 projects, 100 CU-hrs/project, 1 GB storage

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs

Netlify

Free plan

Jamstack hosting with AI-assisted deploys and serverless functions.

Free $0 forever

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs

Railway

Free trial

Deploy apps and databases with simple usage-based billing.

30-day free trial with $5 credits, then $1/month

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Gemini API

Free plan

Google's Gemini API with a free tier for prototyping.

free tier: rate-limited Gemini API access via Google AI Studio

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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OpenRouter

Free plan

Unified API for hundreds of LLMs including free model variants.

free models with daily request limits

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Cohere

Free plan

Enterprise LLMs, embeddings and rerank with a free trial key.

free trial API key: rate-limited, non-commercial use

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Try and prototype with NVIDIA-hosted open models via API.

free: hosted inference endpoints for leading open models (rate-limited)

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Ultra-fast LLM inference API on Cerebras hardware.

free tier: daily token limits on open models

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Fast inference API for open-source LLMs.

free tier with rate limits

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Novita AI

Free plan

Model APIs and GPU cloud for AI developers.

Some models free to use (e.g. Apodex 1.1 Mini at $0 input/output)

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Baseten

Free credits

Inference platform for deploying and serving AI models.

free credits to start

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Modal

Free credits

Serverless GPU cloud for running AI code.

free monthly compute credits on Starter plan

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Azure free account

Free credits

Microsoft Azure free account with credits and always-free services.

free credit for 30 days plus free services

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Google Cloud free trial credit and Free Tier products including Vertex AI.

free trial credits for new customers plus always-free products

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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AWS Free Tier

Free credits

AWS Free Tier with credits for Bedrock and other services.

free credits for new customers plus always-free services

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Oracle Cloud Always Free resources and trial credits.

always-free services plus free trial credits

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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API access to Qwen models with free quota.

free token quota for new users

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Z.ai API

Free plan

API for GLM models with free flash-tier models.

free models available via API

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Voyage AI

Free plan

Embedding and reranking models for retrieval.

free tokens per account for embeddings and rerankers

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Pinecone

Free plan

Serverless vector database for AI applications.

free Starter plan

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Qdrant Cloud

Free plan

Open-source vector database with a free managed cluster.

free 1GB cluster forever

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Weaviate

Free plan

Open-source vector database with hybrid search.

Free Forever $0/mo managed database; no credit card required

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Chroma

Free credits

Open-source search and retrieval database for AI.

free credits on Chroma Cloud; open source free

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Zilliz Cloud

Free plan

Managed Milvus vector database.

free plan: serverless clusters

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Upstash

Free plan

Serverless Redis, vector and messaging with free tiers.

free tier for Redis, Vector and QStash

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Redis Cloud

Free plan

Managed Redis with vector search for AI apps.

free 30MB database

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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MongoDB Atlas

Free plan

Cloud database with vector search.

free M0 cluster with 512MB storage

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Turso

Free plan

SQLite for production with edge replicas and vector search.

free plan: databases and storage included

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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CockroachDB

Free plan

Distributed SQL database with vector support.

free Basic tier usage allowance

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Firebase

Free plan

Google's app backend with Gemini AI Logic, auth and database.

free Spark plan

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Appwrite

Free plan

Open-source backend platform for web and mobile apps.

free plan for hobby projects

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Nhost

Free plan

Open-source Firebase alternative with Postgres and GraphQL.

free starter project

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Render

Free plan

Cloud hosting for apps, APIs and databases.

free instances for web services and Postgres

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Koyeb

Free plan

Serverless platform for apps and GPU inference.

free instance for one web service

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Deno Deploy

Free plan

Serverless JavaScript hosting at the edge.

free plan with monthly requests

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Sentry

Free plan

Error monitoring with AI-powered debugging.

free Developer plan

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Langfuse

Free plan

Open-source LLM observability and evals.

free Hobby plan; open source self-host

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Helicone

Free plan

Open-source LLM observability and gateway.

free plan: monthly requests

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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ML experiment tracking and LLM evaluation with Weave.

free plan for personal projects

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Portkey

Free plan

AI gateway, guardrails and observability.

free plan: monthly logs

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Braintrust

Free plan

Evals and observability platform for AI products.

free plan for evals and logging

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Arize Phoenix

Free plan

Open-source LLM tracing and evaluation.

free: open-source and free cloud tier

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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API for Stable Diffusion image, video and audio models.

free credits for new accounts

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Deepgram

Free credits

Speech-to-text, text-to-speech and voice agent APIs.

free credit on signup

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Gladia

Free credits

Real-time and async speech-to-text API.

Start with €50 free credits

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Speechmatics

Free plan

Accurate speech-to-text API in 50+ languages.

free plan: monthly hours of transcription

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Resend

Free plan

Email API for developers.

free plan: 3,000 emails per month

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Clerk

Free plan

Authentication and user management for apps.

free plan: monthly active users included

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Auth0

Free plan

Identity platform with auth for AI agents.

free plan: up to 25,000 MAUs

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Postman

Free plan

API platform with AI agent builder and Postbot.

free plan for individuals and small teams

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Inngest

Free plan

Durable workflows and AI agent orchestration.

free Hobby plan: monthly executions

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Trigger.dev

Free plan

Background jobs and AI agent workflows in TypeScript.

free plan with monthly usage credit

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Mango Inference

Free credits

OpenAI-compatible inference API for open frontier models.

$10 free credits on signup

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Chutes

Free plan

Decentralized serverless inference for open models.

free tier: limited daily requests

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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European serverless LLM inference API.

free tokens for new users

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Serverless AI model APIs hosted in Europe.

free with rate limits for anonymous use

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Free, open-source generative AI API for text, images and audio.

free open API for text and image generation

Free verified
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Puter.js

Free plan

Add free AI, cloud storage and auth to frontend apps without a backend.

free: user-pays model, no API key needed for developers

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Firecrawl

Free plan

Turn websites into LLM-ready data with crawl and scrape APIs.

free plan: one-time credits

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Tavily

Free plan

Search API built for AI agents.

free plan: 1,000 API credits per month

Free verified No card
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Exa

Free credits

Web search API for AI.

Start free with over $120 in credits per year

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Serper

Free credits

Fast Google search API.

2,500 free queries

Free verified No card
Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs
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Grafana Cloud

Free plan

Observability platform with AI assistant.

free forever plan

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Dev Infrastructure & AI APIs

FAQ

Common questions

Which free AI API is fastest for prototypes?
Groq and Together offer low-latency free tiers for open models; rate limits apply.
Can I host open models for free?
Hugging Face Spaces and local Ollama are popular; cloud GPU free tiers are limited.
Do serverless free tiers sleep when idle?
Many PaaS free plans spin down after inactivity, causing cold starts on next request.