OVH AI Endpoints anonymous mode is documented at 2 req/min per IP per model (observed even stricter across models). The 400 req/min authenticated tier requires a Public Cloud project with a payment method, so the catalog ships the keyless path. Treat as a breadth/fallback tier, not a throughput tier.
No API key required info
Routes anonymously — the catalog ships a keyless sentinel row and calls work with no account or key.
May emit thinking trace warning
OVH Qwen reasoning routes can include <think> blocks or reasoning prose. Strip or suppress the thinking trace when a plain answer is required.
Needs token room info
Some free routes spend hidden reasoning tokens before visible output. Avoid tiny max_tokens values or requests can finish by length with empty content.
HuggingFace Inference Providers grants only ~$0.10/month of routed credit on the free tier (PRO is $2/month). Enough for light experimentation; exhausts quickly. Credits apply only to HF-routed requests.
Get this model the moment it changes
Limits move, models get replaced, better ones launch. Premium routers see this page's data live. Free routers see last month's.
FreeLLMAPI is a self-hosted router you run yourself. Install it, paste in your free Groq key, and qwen/qwen3.6-27b answers on an OpenAI-compatible endpoint at http://localhost:3001/v1. No credit card, no hosted middleman: your prompts and your provider keys never leave your machine.
curl http://localhost:3001/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer freellmapi-your-unified-key" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "qwen/qwen3.6-27b",
"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Say hi in five words."}]
}'
The same request in Python (openai)
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
base_url="http://localhost:3001/v1",
api_key="freellmapi-your-unified-key",
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
model="qwen/qwen3.6-27b",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Say hi in five words."}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)
The router answers on /v1/chat/completions and every other OpenAI surface, plus the Anthropic Messages API, so existing clients need only a new base_url. Swap the model id for auto and the router picks the best free model that is still under its limits. Full reference: docs/api.md.
Related free models
Same key, same router, no extra setup. Any of these is one model id away.