FreeTheAi — free OpenAI-compatible API

OpenAI-compatible AI API with 80+ active models. One Discord key, one base URL, zero billing.

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curl https://api.freetheai.xyz/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FREETHEAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "opc/deepseek-v4-flash-free",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello" }]
  }'
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FreeTheAi works as a custom OpenAI-compatible API across roleplay frontends, coding agents, and regular SDK apps.

What Is FreeTheAi?

FreeTheAi is a free AI API gateway with 80+ active models behind a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. No credit card, no billing, no daily caps — just a free Discord key and a base URL that works with any OpenAI SDK. No prompt storage, no card required. Optional paid slots exist for builders who need separate higher-power models. Built to free the AI for developers, students, and builders.

What Can You Build?

API features

Streaming chat, tool calling and structured outputs, and Anthropic messages - all OpenAI-compatible.

Use cases

Chatbots, coding agents, content pipelines, and multi-model orchestrations. Students prototype, developers ship, researchers evaluate — all against one free endpoint.

Getting Started

  1. Join the FreeTheAi Discord
  2. Run /signup and complete the modal with your use case, bot answer, and human challenge
  3. Run /checkin with your API key once per UTC day before using the free API
  4. Set FREETHEAI_API_KEY in your environment
  5. Point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.freetheai.xyz/v1
  6. Browse the API docs for endpoint-specific examples
Community funded

Keep the free tier alive.

If FreeTheAi saves you a subscription or unblocks a project, a small donation helps cover servers and keeps more free capacity online.