Hugging Face free API key: how to get one
Free accounts get a small monthly credit (about $0.10) for hosted models; PRO accounts get $2.
Checked October 2026. Limits are set by each company and change often.
Hugging Face
- Kind
- Free credit, no card needed
- Free limits
- Free accounts get a small monthly credit (about $0.10) for hosted models; PRO accounts get $2.
- Models
- Llama, Gemma, Phi-4, Nemotron, GPT-OSS and 200+ more
How to get it
- Sign up at huggingface.co.
- Open Settings, then Access Tokens, and create a token with Inference permission.
- Paste the hf_ token under Hugging Face.
Hugging Face models in MultiScreenAI
The free tier covers Llama, Gemma, Phi-4, Nemotron, GPT-OSS and 200+ more; the others need paid usage on the same key.
Then use it with every other AI at once
Paste the key into MultiScreenAI next to any others you have. One message goes to every model on one screen, and test mode times them and hides the names. A few free keys together go a long way.
Questions
Is the Hugging Face API key really free?
You get free credit, with no card needed. Free accounts get a small monthly credit (about $0.10) for hosted models; PRO accounts get $2.
Which models does a free Hugging Face key reach?
Llama, Gemma, Phi-4, Nemotron, GPT-OSS and 200+ more
Can I use the Hugging Face key with other AIs at the same time?
Yes. Paste it into MultiScreenAI next to your other keys and one message goes to every model at once, answers side by side.
Other free API keys
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- SambaNova
- SiliconFlow
- GLM (Z.ai)
- Cohere
- Ollama Cloud
- Fireworks
- Qwen
- Cloudflare Workers AI
- Pollinations
- OpenAI (ChatGPT)
- Claude (Anthropic)
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