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Pollinations AI

LLM 4.4/10 Jul 4, 2026

Open-source Berlin-based gen-AI gateway for free text, image, audio, and video generation with no sign-up required and OpenAI-compatible endpoints.

Pollinations AI scores 4.4/10 for free value in LLM. The main constraint: Anonymous (no sign-up) access is rate-limited to roughly one request every 15 seconds per IP on basic models across text, image, audio, and video; free registration (Seed tier) raises this on standard models.

Category LLM Kind Gen-AI API gateway Caveats No token-based quota — access is governed by per-IP/per-request rate limits, not a monthly token allowance. Free-tier images may carry a Pollinations watermark (removable only with an account). The newer "Pollen" credit system ($1 ≈ 1 Pollen) and Flower/Nectar tiers gate advanced models and unmetered usage behind paid plans, and publishable client-side keys are not yet recommended for production. Card required No Eligibility anyone

Free value score

4.4 / 10
Show the math
Model Quality 2.7/10
value = 15 artificial_analysis_score
weighted score = 0.5 * 2.7/10
Request Rate 2.2/10
value = 4 req/min
weighted score = 0.25 * 2.2/10
Access 10/10
value = 10/10
weighted score = 0.25 * 10/10

Key metrics

GPT-OSS 20B (openai-fast) 15 Best model
4 R/min Requests/min
Yes Commercial use

Models

1 free · 106+ total
Model Family AA Access
GPT-OSS 20B (openai-fast) GPT 14.9 free
claude-large (Claude Opus 4.8) Claude 55.7 paid
openai-large (GPT-5.5) GPT 54.8 paid
gpt-5.4 (GPT-5.4) GPT 51.4 paid
glm (Z.ai GLM-5.2) GLM 51.1 paid
gemini (Gemini 3.5 Flash) Gemini 50.2 paid
gemini-large (Gemini 3.1 Pro) Gemini 46.5 paid
minimax (MiniMax M3) MiniMax 44.4 paid
deepseek-pro (DeepSeek V4 Pro) DeepSeek 44.3 paid
claude-opus-4.7 (Claude Opus 4.7) Claude 42.7 paid
kimi-code (Kimi K2.7 Code) Kimi 42 paid
deepseek (DeepSeek V4 Flash/Lite) DeepSeek 40.3 paid
gpt-5.4-mini (GPT-5.4 Mini) GPT 40 paid
qwen-large (Qwen3.7 Plus) Qwen 39 paid
openai (GPT-5.4 Nano) GPT 38.2 paid
claude-opus-4.6 (Claude Opus 4.6) Claude 37.8 paid
grok-large (Grok 4.3) Grok 37.6 paid
claude (Claude Sonnet 4.6) Claude 35.9 paid
glm-step / step-flash (StepFun Step 3.7 Flash) StepFun 29.7 paid
gemini-3-flash (Gemini 3 Flash) Gemini 27.4 paid
gemini-flash-lite-3.1 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite) Gemini 25 paid
mistral (Mistral Small 4) Mistral 20.8 paid
mistral-large (Mistral Large 3) Mistral 16.2 paid
llama-maverick (Llama 4 Maverick) Llama 14.3 paid
gemini-fast (Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite) Gemini 14.1 paid
gemini-search (Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Search) Gemini 14.1 paid
llama-scout (Llama 4 Scout) Llama 10 paid
claude-fast (Claude Haiku 4.5) Claude — paid
flux (Flux Schnell) Flux (Black Forest Labs) — paid
grok (Grok 4.20 Non-Reasoning) Grok — paid
grok-4-20-reasoning (Grok 4.20 Reasoning) Grok — paid
kimi (Moonshot Kimi K2.6) Kimi — paid
llama (Llama 3.3 70B) Llama — paid
nanobanana-pro (NanoBanana Pro) Gemini/Google — paid
nova (Amazon Nova 2 Lite) Nova — paid
perplexity (Perplexity Sonar Pro) Perplexity — paid
qwen-coder (Qwen3 Coder 30B) Qwen — paid
qwen-coder-large (Qwen3 Coder Next) Qwen — paid
qwen-vision (Qwen3 VL 30B Instruct) Qwen — paid
qwen-vision-pro (Qwen3 VL 235B Thinking) Qwen — paid

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What you get

No sign-up required for basic text, image, audio, and video generation

OpenAI-SDK-compatible text endpoint plus an official MCP server for Claude/Cursor/Codex

Broad model roster: GPT/Gemini/Llama/Mistral (text), Flux/gpt-image/Seedream (image), wan-fast (video), 30+ TTS voices

100% open-source (MIT) stack, no credit card needed to start

Limitations

  • Watermark on free images

    Since March 31, 2025 free-tier images may include a Pollinations watermark; removing it (nologo) requires a registered account.

Sources

llm image-generation text-to-speech video-generation open-source openai-compatible mcp no-signup multimodal free-tier
Open service Source ← All LLM