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GitHub Offers Free AI Models for Developers

GitHub Models offers free AI APIs (GPT-4o, Llama 3, DeepSeek-R1) for developers—zero config, OpenAI-compatible, with built-in rate limits.

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Meng Li
Aug 10, 2025
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Introducing GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on  GitHub - The GitHub Blog

GitHub Models provides a plug-and-play free AI model backend for open-source AI projects.

With just a GitHub account, you can call models like GPT-4o, DeepSeek-R1, Llama 3, and others through OpenAI-compatible REST interfaces.

The free tier covers personal accounts and public repositories, with rate limits sufficient for daily experimentation.

GitHub integrates models from multiple providers into a unified public inference service that works out of the box with zero additional API keys required.

Personal accounts and open-source organizations enjoy free quotas by default, with rate limiting based on requests/tokens without billing.

Official hosting includes over ten models, such as GPT-4o, GPT-4-mini, DeepSeek-R1, Llama 3, Phi-3.5, xAI Grok-3, with automatic backend routing.

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