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ai deep-dive

2026 LLM Inference Provider Free Tiers & Pricing: 40+ Services Ranked by Tier

For side projects, toy demos, and RAG prototypes, nobody wants to swipe a credit card on day one. This is a verified roundup of 40+ LLM inference providers still operating as of 2026/05, tiered by whether free resources auto-replenish or are one-time grants. Each entry notes credit-card requirements, supported models, paid starting prices, and catches. Chinese-origin providers including Zhipu GLM (permanently free), Doubao (2M tokens/day), Kimi, DashScope, and the Ollama local option are all included.

#llm#inference#pricing#free-tier#cerebras#groq#cloudflare-workers-ai#gemini#openrouter#deepseek#nvidia-nim#modal#ollama#mistral
ai guide

Groq Console: The Developer Platform for Running Open-Source Models on LPU Inference

Groq Console is the developer portal for Groq's in-house LPU chip, offering an OpenAI-compatible API, Playground, and free tier credits. Its selling point is running open-source models like Llama, Qwen, and DeepSeek at the fastest tokens/second on the market.

#groq#lpu#inference#llm#openai-compatible#developer-platform
ai guide Reading the OpenClaw Docs

OpenClaw's 60 Providers: A Category Map, and What Actually Bites When You Attach a Local Model

The official provider directory now lists 60 entries. The most common failure when attaching a local model is writing Ollama's base URL with /v1 — that breaks tool calling, and the model starts emitting raw tool-call JSON as plain text.

#openclaw#deepseek#groq#ollama#openrouter#vllm#bedrock#sglang#mistral