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OpenAI
OpenAI's open-source speech-to-text model — transcribe audio in dozens of languages on your own machine, free under the MIT licence with no API costs.
API & Platform
The developer end of the directory: APIs, model hubs, and build workspaces with free tiers or open weights, so you can start putting AI into your own projects without a bill.
OpenAI
OpenAI's open-source speech-to-text model — transcribe audio in dozens of languages on your own machine, free under the MIT licence with no API costs.
GitHub
The AI pair programmer inside your editor — code completions and chat, with a genuinely useful free tier for Visual Studio Code and other editors, Pro at $10/month for unlimited completions.
Groq
A developer API for running open models at extreme speed — free tier covers every model with no credit card, gated by rate limits rather than credits.
LM Studio
A polished desktop app for running open AI models on your own computer — point-and-click instead of a terminal, free for personal and work use, private and fully offline.
OpenRouter
A single API and dashboard that routes requests to hundreds of AI models from many providers — OpenAI-compatible, pay-as-you-go with no subscription, and with a selection of free models, at openrouter.ai.
Google's free, browser-based Jupyter notebooks with free access to GPUs and TPUs — write and run Python for AI and data work at colab.research.google.com, with paid tiers for more compute.
JustWoker · Claude Opus 4.8
A third-party service that resells API access to AI models, including ones it labels as the Claude family, through a single key and a prepaid balance with an advertised signup credit. Listed with a disclosed referral link.
Ollama
A free, open-source tool that runs open AI models locally on your own computer — private, offline-capable, and with no per-use fees. Download it at ollama.com for macOS, Windows, or Linux and pull a model with a single command.
Google's free web workspace for building with its Gemini models — prototype prompts, tune settings, work with text, images, and long documents, then export code and get an API key. Free to use at aistudio.google.com with a Google account.
Hugging Face
The open hub for machine learning — hundreds of thousands of free, downloadable AI models and datasets, in-browser demos, and the libraries much of the field is built on. Free to browse and use at huggingface.co, with paid plans for teams and hosted compute.
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