# 12britz/awesome-free-models

A curated list of free AI models, APIs, and tools you can use without paying a cent.

Repository: https://github.com/12britz/awesome-free-models
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome-free-models
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-08-25T11:17:26+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 58/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 6
- inputs: {"age_days": 88, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, young, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1934, forks 175 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:56.223640+00:00)

## What it is
A curated awesome-list of free AI models, APIs, and tools, covering open-weight models, free API tiers, local inference tools, and the surrounding AI ecosystem. It catalogs hundreds of links across 21 sections, with links periodically re-verified.

## Use cases
- find free LLM APIs with generous free tiers
- discover open-weight models I can self-host
- find tools to run AI models locally for free
- locate free embedding models for RAG
- find free AI coding assistants and chatbot UIs
- discover free TTS and speech recognition models
- find free vector databases and agentic frameworks

## When to choose
- you want to build with AI without paying for APIs or GPUs
- you need a starting point to survey the free AI tooling ecosystem
- you want regularly re-verified links to free model providers and tools

## When to avoid
- you need in-depth documentation or tutorials rather than a link list
- you need a single maintained tool rather than a directory of many options
- you require guaranteed availability of every listed free tier, since free tiers change often

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: llm-inference, rag, agent-framework, prompt-engineering, mcp
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, machine-learning, awesome-lists, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: awesome-list, free-tier, open-weight-models, curated-list, ai-tools, free-apis, local-inference

## Member repositories
- 12britz/awesome-free-models (main) score 58

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:56.223640+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:08:28.303041+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/12britz/awesome-free-models (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:56.223640+00:00, sha c2ede6b617ec)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.