ALL FREE DEEPSEEK V3.1 PROVIDERS
Today I'll list all the providers (so far) I've found that offer Deepseek V3.1 for free. (Disclaimer: Many of these providers only work on Sillytavern.)
●Alibaba Cloud offers one million free tokens to all new users who register.
●Atlascloud offers $0.10 free per day, which is about 230 free messages per day if you set the token length limit to 200; if you set it to 500, it's about 100.
●Byteplus ModelArk offers 500,000 free tokens to new users, and by inviting friends, you can reach a maximum of $45 per invite. It only works via VPN, preferably in Indonesia.
●CometAPI is supposed to offer one million free tokens to all users who register, although I don't know if it actually does.
●NVIDIA NIM APIs offers completely free access to deepseek, with the only limit being 40 requests per minute.
●Openrouter offers deepseek for free, but with a daily limit of 50 messages.
●Routeway AI, an emerging site that offers deepseek for free with a limit of 200 requests per day (currently 100 because it counts requests and responses separately); you may be subject to a waitlist.
●SambaCloud offers $5 free upon registration and theoretically free access to deepseek with 400 requests per day, although I'm not 100% sure.
●Siliconflow (Chinese edition) offers 14 yuan ($1.97) upon registration and 14 yuan for each friend you invite and register.
●Vercel AI offers $5 free every month.
Now I'll tell you about the free ones, but they require a credit card to register.
●AWS Bedrock/Lambda offers a free $100 signup fee, which can be increased to $200 if you complete tasks.
●Azure offers a free $200 for one month.
●Vertex AI is available through Google Cloud and offers a free $300 for three months.
These are all the providers I've found that offer Deepseek for free for now.
Lately I have been hearing that the free providers on openrouter are de-prioritizing openrouter requests (namely chutes). I also see that deepinfra is quanting at fp4 and openInference specifically makes a point to demand the right to publish or redistribute your chats in what appears to be a hand-written privacy policy.
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I can confirm that's true and you get a lot of rate limits now and other issues, but for the most part AI tools like RooCode just try again. It's not perfect, but it's free.
Been using the nVidia NIM for a few weeks with great success, but it went down for like 24 hours recently, and today I wake up and it's down again... for who knows how long.
They won't register international users so it gets a rotten tomato for me. Up to this day they haven't resolved it when trying to confirm registration with phone sms
When too many users use a provider at the same time it is normal for this to happen
Is there even a reason to use Infermatic and other providers when so much shit is free these days?
Maybe stability, because most of the free hosting platforms eventually get overloaded with people so they reduce the limit of RPM/RPD and it gets hard to get a response sometimes.
That's a great list! I also have one for free and cheap APIs: rentry.c o/LLMAPI
I'll also add the ones in yours so it can be a big free list so that everyone have access to APIs.
Thanks for the info, it bothers me a little because I paid for the API to support and in return get something good for roleplay, but the official API has the new version that sucks for roleplay and now I have to change to free options
Useful tidbit but the 50 free daily requests for Openrouter increase to 1,000 per day (and I've reached over 110 million daily tokens with this method) as long as you have at least a $10 USD balance. And you don't have to use the balance, just keep it to get higher limits for the free models. And you can go to the models page and filter by "free".
Add Nebula Block to the list. I used that provider to use Deepseek
Unfortunately, they don’t anymore.
It does not have deepseek V3.1
I honestly don't understand how to get Vercel AI to work with SillyTavern. I have setup an account, got the free credits, made an API key and...it just never works. GPT keeps saying it's something with a firewall or whatever, but I can connect to any other service via API key just fine. Supposedly there's a unique URL you have to use...but I'll be damned if I can find it.
Also, if anyone can make AlibabaCloud work...I'd love to know how.
Maybe it's the fault of the provider where they get the models from
I wish there was a list like this for GLM 4.5 and Kimi 2 as well.
Some of these providers like routeway have them
Chutes has glm 4.5 air for free
They made a new model