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freetheai-api

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Help AI agents connect apps, SDKs, coding tools, and chat clients to FreeTheAI, the free OpenAI-compatible API at https://api.freetheai.org/v1. Use this skill when a user wants a free AI API key, a custom OpenAI base URL, setup help for an AI client, or examples for chat, streaming, and tool calling.

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FreeTheAI

FreeTheAI is a free, OpenAI-compatible AI API. One key and one base URL give you dozens of chat models with streaming, tool calling, web search with sourced answers, and image and video generation. Also searched as Free The AI, Free The Ai, and FreeTheAi.

[!IMPORTANT] FreeTheAI moved to freetheai.org. The old API at api.freetheai.xyz, its keys, and the old Discord /signup and /checkin commands no longer work. Use the base URL https://api.freetheai.org/v1 with a key from freetheai.org. Old freetheai.xyz links forward to their new pages.

Quick start

Create an account at freetheai.org, confirm your email, and make a key under API keys.
Do the daily check-in once a day to unlock the free models until 00:00 UTC.
Point your app at the base URL.

Base URL    https://api.freetheai.org/v1
Auth        Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY
Model IDs   fta/<provider>/<model>, for example fta/zai/glm-5.3

curl https://api.freetheai.org/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FREETHEAI_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "fta/zai/glm-5.3", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]}'

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.freetheai.org/v1", api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="fta/zai/glm-5.3",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)

Chat completions support streaming, tool calling, and the usual sampling settings. List the models your key can use with GET /v1/models. Every error carries an error ID (in the body and the X-Error-ID header); quote it when you ask for help.

SDKs and examples

Language	Package	Repository
Python	`pip install freetheai`	freetheai-python
JavaScript and TypeScript	`npm install freetheai`	freetheai-js
Go	`go get github.com/Free-The-Ai/freetheai-go`	freetheai-go
Recipes for all of the above		freetheai-cookbook

Code you can copy is in examples/.

Free tier

50 requests a day on the free models. The count resets at 00:00 UTC, and failed requests don't count.
Free models need the daily check-in at freetheai.org/checkin.
Paid plans are coming soon.

Models

The live list, with context sizes, is at freetheai.org/models. Model IDs start with a short tag:

Prefix	What it holds
`fta/zai/*`	GLM models, including `glm-5.3` and `glm-5.3-flash`
`fta/kimi/*`	Kimi K3
`fta/mmx/*`	MiniMax M3
`fta/bbl/`, `fta/vbk/`, `fta/olm/`, `fta/olf/`, `fta/kai/`, `fta/ocz/`	Chat, reasoning, and open-weight models, some with free tiers

Apps and setup guides

Anything that speaks the OpenAI API works with FreeTheAI, including SillyTavern, JanitorAI, Open WebUI, Cline, LibreChat, and more. Step-by-step guides for each app are at freetheai.org/setup.

Privacy

Read the Terms and the Privacy Policy for what is collected and who is responsible for it.

For AI agents

SKILL.md teaches coding agents how to set up FreeTheAI in a user's tools without inventing keys, endpoints, or model IDs.

This repository

examples/ holds copy-paste code for common SDKs.
site/ is the small Astro site that forwards the old freetheai.xyz links to freetheai.org. It deploys to GitHub Pages on every push to master.

Support and credits

FreeTheAI is built by Vibhek Soni (@vibheksoni). A tip on Buy Me a Coffee helps cover the servers. Starring the repo and sharing it helps too.

Questions and help: Discord
Security issues: [email protected]

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

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