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5 Free LLM API Providers You Can Use in 2026

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Several providers now offer free API access to large language models like NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra, Mistral Medium, GPT-OSS-120B, and Google's Gemini, enabling developers to experiment without hosting or paying for inference. The article reviews five such providers, detailing their free usage limits and model offerings, highlighting GroqCloud for fast inference and OpenRouter for model variety.

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