Developer curates free LLM API guide covering Groq, Mistral and more

On October 3, 2026, developer Ashfaq-Riyaldeen published a post on DEV Community introducing free-llm-apis, a guide he maintains on GitHub. Writing in the first person to fellow developers, he describes it as a resource for choosing an LLM API when working with a limited budget, and says it covers providers such as Google AI Studio, Groq, Mistral, and OpenRouter.

According to the author, the guide compares several things across those providers: which use cases each one suits, free tiers versus limited trial credits, usage limits and privacy considerations, and ideas for using backup providers. He also notes that free allowances change over time, so developers should check the provider's latest documentation before relying on any of the listed quotas. The repository is given as github.com/Ashfaq-Riyaldeen.

That post is the only report on the guide so far. The material does not name the specific models it includes, does not give any quota or usage numbers, and does not state conclusions about how the providers compare; it also says nothing about how or when the repository will be updated.