Someone turned the free tier into a single api. tashfeenahmed/freellmapi routes one…
someone turned the free tier into a single api. tashfeenahmed/freellmapi routes one openai-compatible /v1 endpoint across 34 free providers and 635 model endpoints, roughly 7.4b tokens a month, with auto-failover when a quota dies.
20k stars and no credit card required.
Context
Verified source: the tashfeenahmed/freellmapi README says it offers 7.4 billion tokens per month across 34 free LLM providers and 635 free model endpoints behind one OpenAI-compatible /v1 endpoint, with smart routing and automatic failover when a provider is rate-limited.
The GitHub page also says it is for personal experimentation only, and its architecture note describes a self-hosted gateway that stores upstream keys encrypted.
The 7.4 billion tokens, 34 providers, 635 endpoints and failover match the README. The 20,000 stars and 'no credit card required' were not seen in the sources read, so unsupported here, not refuted. The README describes tokens per month as a sum of provider free-tier allowances, not traffic served, and says it is meant for personal experimentation. 'Someone turned the free tier into a single api' is the author's opinion.
Related work
- freellmapi architecture index ↗Self-hosted gateway design.
- freellmapi README ↗Headline numbers.
- freellmapi repository ↗Personal experimentation note.
Watch next
- Read each provider's free-tier terms to see whether pooling free tiers like this is allowed.
Sources
- tashfeenahmed/freellmapi, GitHubgithub.com
- freellmapi READMEraw.githubusercontent.com
- freellmapi architecture indexraw.githubusercontent.com
Provenance
The note above is reproduced unedited from the original post, first published on Threads on 1 October 2026 at 03:37 IST. Sources are the papers and datasets the note draws on.
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