FreeLLMAPI Unifies 34 Free AI Provider Tiers Into One OpenAI-Compatible Endpoint

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FreeLLMAPI is an open-source router that consolidates free-tier API access from 34 AI providers — including Google, Groq, Cerebras, and Mistral — into a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Users bring their own free-tier provider keys, which are stored locally in an AES-256-encrypted SQLite database, while the router handles failover, rate-limit tracking, and request routing. The core software is MIT-licensed and fully self-hostable via Docker, npm, or a desktop app, with no feature restrictions on the free version. The only paid element is a live model catalog feed priced at $19 per year or $49 lifetime; free users receive the same catalog but on a roughly 30-day delay. The project is explicitly designed for personal experimentation and prototyping, not production use, as it offers no SLA, variable latency, and no frontier model access.

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