Does awesome-free-llm-apis use paid AI services?

Can use Cohere, Google Gemini, Mistral, Groq or OpenRouter. Its settings have keys for these paid APIs. Its README says whether one is required.

Is awesome-free-llm-apis still maintained?

Yes, active. Last change yesterday.

Can I trust awesome-free-llm-apis?

Some track record. 13k stars, 8 months old, by an organization. Get it from the official repo and read what it installs.

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How to install awesome-free-llm-apis on Linux (mnfst/awesome-free-llm-apis) · gitmanual

How to install on Linux

mnfst/awesome-free-llm-apis

List of Permanent Free LLM API (API Keys)

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Difficulty: Involved
Time: 30 min or more
Stars: ★ 12,583
Activity: Updated this month

Before you start

Is it free?: YesOpen source (CC0-1.0).
Paid AI services?: Can use Cohere, Google Gemini, Mistral, Groq or OpenRouterIts settings have keys for these paid APIs. Its README says whether one is required.
Still maintained?: Yes, activeLast change yesterday.
Can I trust it?: Some track record13k stars, 8 months old, by an organization. Get it from the official repo and read what it installs.

Saved setup from 11 h ago

Will it work on Linux?

Yes, it runs on Linux

You'll build it yourself with Node.js.

Your system

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Start here

Heads-upIt also needs 16 settings in .env (15 secret).

4 steps on Linux

Download setup.sh

Then run bash setup.sh. It stops at the first error and is safe to run again. Servers and tests aren't started; it lists them at the end. Read it first.

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/mnfst/awesome-free-llm-apis.git
cd awesome-free-llm-apis

Install the required runtimes

Node.js >=20

# needs nvm: https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm
nvm install --lts

3
Configure environment variables
Fill in secrets: AION_API_KEY, COHERE_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY, MISTRAL_API_KEY, ZAI_API_KEY, CF_API_TOKEN, GROQ_API_KEY, HF_API_KEY
```
cp .env.verify.example .env
```
4
Install dependencies
```
npm install
```

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Parts list

1×Node.js >=20runtime
1×npm package manager

16× settings in .env

AION_API_KEYsecret
COHERE_API_KEYsecret
GEMINI_API_KEYsecret
MISTRAL_API_KEYsecret
ZAI_API_KEYsecret
CF_API_TOKENsecret
CF_ACCOUNT_ID
GROQ_API_KEYsecret
HF_API_KEYsecret
KILO_API_KEYsecret
MODELSCOPE_API_KEYsecret
NVIDIA_API_KEYsecret
OLLAMA_API_KEYsecret
OPENROUTER_API_KEYsecret
OVH_API_KEYsecret
SILICONFLOW_API_KEYsecret

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Good to know

Has CLAUDE.md — instructions for coding agents. You can open Claude Code (or another agent) in the cloned folder and ask it to do the setup for you.

Details

License: CC0-1.0
Open issues: 4
Branch: main

package.json scripts (5)

generatenode scripts/generate-readme.js && node scripts/generate-skill.js
generate:readmenode scripts/generate-readme.js
generate:skillnode scripts/generate-skill.js
verifynode scripts/verify-providers.js --out .verify/report-$(date +%F).json
verify:self-testnode scripts/verify-providers.js --self-test

Files we read (7)

.env.verify.example

.github/workflows/ci.yml

.github/workflows/generate-readme.yml

.github/workflows/no-claude-badge.yml

README.md

contributing.md

package.json

37 files in the repo