Free/Cheap LLM APIs

(for SillyTavern)

Platform Platform Type Deal Type Cost Models Rate limit Cons Guide
Google Vertex Provider Sign up Free 300$ for 3 months Gemini models Supported
Amazon Web Services Provider Sign up Free 200$ for 6 months Claude models Long setup Rentry
Parasail Provider Sign up Free 10$ Deepseek models, Kimi K2, GLM 4.5 Go down
Sambanova Provider Sign up Free 5$ Deepseek models 60 RPD Go down
Groq Provider Sign up Free Tier Kimi K2 10K TPM Super low rate limits Supported
NVIDIA NIM Provider Sign up Free Tier Deepseek models, Kimi K2, Qwen 3 40RPM (?) Queue system Reddit
Routeway Provider Waitlist Free tier R1T2 Chimera, Kimi K2, GLM 4.5, GPT-4.1 20 RPM & 200 RPD Early development Go down
Chutes Provider Subscription 3$/month Deepseek models, Kimi K2, Qwen 3, GLM 4.5 300 RPD Supported
4risu (Discord) Proxy Subscription Free/Pro tier Sonnet 3.5/3.7, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, Deepseek V3.1 Rate limit errors on free tier (?) Read the #rules on DC
Anas Proxy (Discord) Proxy Subscription $1.60/day Most RP models Unlimited Parameters/Images not supported Rentry
NanoGPT Gateway Subscription 8$/month Deepseek models, Kimi K2, Qwen 3 2000 RPD Supported
Openrouter Gateway One time deposit Deposit 10$ once Deepseek models, Kimi K2, Qwen 3 1000 RPD Rate limit errors Supported
LLMGateway Gateway One time deposit Deposit 5$ once R1T2 Chimera, Kimi K2, GLM 4.5, GPT-4.1 20 RPM Some providers are in early development Go down
Vercel Gateway Sign up Free 5$ credits (monthly) Most RP models (except Opus) Credit card needed Go down
Atlas Cloud Gateway Sign up Free 0.1$ credits (daily) Most RP models Go down

Note: ? means "not sure"


How To Use Custom APIs?

  1. Go to Top Bar → Connection Profile
  2. Choose Chat Completion → Custom (OpenAI-compatible)
  3. Enter Base URL and API key
  4. Click connect and choose a model

Base URLs:

Platform Base URL
Parasail https://api.saas.parasail.io/v1
Sambanova https://api.sambanova.ai/v1
NVIDIA https://integrate.api.nvidia.com/v1
Routeway https://api.routeway.ai/v1
4risu https://4risu.org/v1
LLMGateway https://api.llmgateway.io/v1
Vercel https://ai-gateway.vercel.sh/v1
Atlas Cloud https://api.atlascloud.ai/v1

If you have any questions/problems, feel free to DM me on reddit.

u/Minimum-Analysis-792


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Pub: 20 Sep 2025 13:39 UTC

Edit: 23 Sep 2025 21:15 UTC

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