🆓 Completely free — no credit card ever needed:
1. Groq → console.groq.com → email signup → 14,400 req/day free (Llama 4, GPT-OSS 120B, fastest inference on the planet)
2. Google Gemini → aistudio.google.com → Google account → free Gemini 2.5 Flash + Gemini 3 Flash with vision
3. OpenRouter → openrouter.ai/keys → email signup → 50 req/day free (Venice Uncensored, Nemotron 550B, Inkling 975B, Gemma 4…)
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Groq — Fastest Free AI on Earth
100% FREE · NO CARD
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$0 — 14,400 req/day free. Llama 4 Maverick (1M ctx), Llama 3.3 70B, GPT-OSS 120B, Llama 3.1 8B instant. 300–800 tokens/sec.
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Go to console.groq.com → sign up with email or Google (no credit card, no phone)
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Click API Keys in sidebar → Create API Key → name it → copy
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In Doge's AI Zone → 🔑 API Keys → paste under Groq → Save
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Google Gemini — Free Flash Models + Vision
100% FREE · NO CARD
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$0 — Gemini 2.5 Flash (1M context, vision) and Gemini 3 Flash Preview are fully free. Just need a Google account.
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Go to aistudio.google.com → sign in with any Google account
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Click Get API Key in left nav → Create API Key
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Copy the key (starts with AIza)
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Paste in Doge's AI Zone → 🔑 API Keys → Google Gemini → Save
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OpenRouter — 15+ Free Models
FREE TIER · NO CARD
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$0 — 50 req/day. Venice Uncensored, Nemotron 550B, Inkling 975B, Gemma 4 Vision, Cohere Code, and more.
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Go to openrouter.ai → click Sign In → create a free account (email only)
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Click your avatar → Keys → Create Key
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Copy the key (starts with sk-or-v1-)
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In Doge's AI Zone → 🔑 API Keys → paste under OpenRouter → Save
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OpenAI — GPT-5, o3, o4-mini, GPT-4o
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Pay-as-you-go. GPT-4o ~$2.50/M tokens in. Add $5 credit to start.
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Go to platform.openai.com → sign up / log in
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Click API Keys in the left sidebar → Create new secret key
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Copy key (starts with sk-) — you only see it once!
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Go to Billing → add a credit card + at least $5 credit
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Paste key in Doge's AI Zone → 🔑 API Keys → OpenAI → Save
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Anthropic — Claude Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5
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Pay-as-you-go. Claude Sonnet ~$3/M tokens in.
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Go to console.anthropic.com → create account
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Click API Keys → Create Key
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Copy the key (starts with sk-ant-)
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Add billing at console.anthropic.com/settings/billing
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Paste key in Doge's AI Zone → 🔑 API Keys → Anthropic → Save
$25 free credit on signup. Grok 2 starts at ~$2/M tokens.
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Go to console.x.ai → log in with your X (Twitter) account
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Click API Keys → Create API Key
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Copy key (starts with xai-)
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Paste in Doge's AI Zone → 🔑 API Keys → xAI (Grok) → Save
Extremely cheap — DeepSeek V3 ~$0.27/M tokens in. Top value.
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Go to platform.deepseek.com → create account
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Click API Keys → Create new API key
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Add a small credit (even $1 goes far)
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Paste in Doge's AI Zone → 🔑 API Keys → DeepSeek → Save
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Cloudflare — Kimi K2.6, GLM-5.3, Nemotron 120B…
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Free tier included. 10,000 neurons/day free. Runs on Cloudflare's global GPU edge network.
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Go to dash.cloudflare.com → log in (free account works)
2
In the left sidebar → AI → Workers AI — note your Account ID shown in the URL or right sidebar
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Go to My Profile → API Tokens → Create Token → use the Workers AI template
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Copy both values and in Doge's AI Zone paste them as: AccountID|APIToken (pipe between them)
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Paste combined string in 🔑 API Keys → Cloudflare Workers AI → Save
Mistral Large ~$2/M tokens. Fast European model.
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Go to console.mistral.ai → create account
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Click API Keys → Create new key
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Copy key → paste in Doge's AI Zone → Mistral → Save