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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
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LLM Council: Karpathy's Weekend Multi-Model Parliament — Three Stages of LLM Peer Review

LLM Council is a local Web App Andrej Karpathy built over a weekend. It sends one question to multiple LLMs simultaneously, has them anonymously peer-review each other, and then a Chairman model synthesizes a final answer. Positioned as a small tool for comparing models while studying — 99% vibe coded with no plans for long-term maintenance — but the architecture itself is a minimal ensemble LLM implementation worth studying.

#llm-council#karpathy#multi-model#openrouter#fastapi#ensemble#peer-review
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OpenClaw Additional Providers: DeepSeek, Groq, Ollama, OpenRouter, Bedrock...

Beyond the big three (Anthropic/OpenAI/Google), OpenClaw supports 30+ providers — from DeepSeek to local Ollama and everything in between.

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