Embeddings, rerankers and image generation or hosting with a free quota. 4 providers, each with the free-tier text from its official pricing page and the date we checked it.
Free tier: First 200 million tokens free per account for voyage-4-large, voyage-4, voyage-4-lite, voyage-context-4, voyage-code-4; 50M free for voyage-finance-2/law-2/code-2; free tokens/pixels also on multimodal models and free tokens on rerank-2/2-lite. Not for Batch API or older models.
Free tier: "Start with a free trial"; free API key with lower rate limits than paid. Free token amount not stated in static page text: unknown. jina-embeddings-v4 is free but non-commercial (Qwen Research License).
Free tier: 25 free credits at signup (1 credit = $0.01); e.g. Stable Image Ultra costs 8 credits per image.
Free tier: Free plan "free forever", no credit card: 25 monthly credits, 3 users / 1 account; upload, transformations, CDN delivery, free add-ons.
Each free tier was read from the provider’s official pricing or limits page on 17 Oct 2026 and is linked as the source. Anything the page does not state is written as unknown. Free tiers change often, so confirm before you build on one.