Pollinations free API key: how to get one
No sign up needed for basic models, at about one request every 15 seconds.
Checked October 2026. Limits are set by each company and change often.
Pollinations
- Kind
- Always free, no card needed
- Free limits
- No sign up needed for basic models, at about one request every 15 seconds.
- Models
- GPT-OSS 20B and community models
How to get it
- No key needed for the anonymous tier.
- Coming to MultiScreenAI soon.
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 Pollinations API key really free?
Yes, there is a free tier, with no card needed. No sign up needed for basic models, at about one request every 15 seconds.
Which models does a free Pollinations key reach?
GPT-OSS 20B and community models
Can I use the Pollinations 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
- Gemini
- Groq
- OpenRouter
- Vercel AI Gateway
- Mistral
- Cerebras
- NVIDIA NIM
- SambaNova
- SiliconFlow
- GLM (Z.ai)
- Cohere
- Hugging Face
- Ollama Cloud
- Fireworks
- Qwen
- Cloudflare Workers AI
- OpenAI (ChatGPT)
- Claude (Anthropic)
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