# Hugging Face free API key: how to get one

> Free credit Hugging Face API key, no card needed. Free accounts get a small monthly credit (about $0.10) for hosted models; PRO accounts get $2. Step by step setup, checked October 2026.

- Kind: Free credit, no card
- 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
- Get the key: https://huggingface.co/settings/tokens

## Steps

1. Sign up at huggingface.co.
2. Open Settings, then Access Tokens, and create a token with Inference permission.
3. 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.

- GPT-OSS 120B: https://www.multiscreenai.com/models/gpt-oss-120b
- Gemma 4 31B: https://www.multiscreenai.com/models/gemma-4-31b
- Llama 4 Maverick: https://www.multiscreenai.com/models/llama-4-maverick
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning: https://www.multiscreenai.com/models/nemotron-3-5-lightning
- Phi-4: https://www.multiscreenai.com/models/phi-4

## Use it with every other AI at once

Paste the key into MultiScreenAI (https://www.multiscreenai.com) and ask every model at once, side by side, with a blind test mode. Agents can do the same over MCP: https://www.multiscreenai.com/mcp