Browse by category

One taxonomy across all 300+ resources

Browse 59 curated categories like Natural Language Processing, Productivity, Development, Image Generation — APIs, AI models and AI tools, all free or open source, in one place.

59 Categories193 APIs84 AI Models111 Tools
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Agent Frameworks

3Models

Frameworks for building autonomous AI agents that plan multi-step tasks, use tools, manage memory, and coordinate sub-agents — LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and more.

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AI Art Generation

AI tools for generating and editing images from text prompts — covering paintings, concept art, digital illustrations, inpainting, and style transfer with no art skills needed.

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Analytics

2APIs

Web and product analytics APIs for event tracking, A/B testing, funnel analysis, cohort reporting, heatmaps, and BI dashboard integrations — with free tiers from all major providers.

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Anime

8APIs

Anime and manga databases with character profiles, episode guides, community ratings, voice actor credits, and recommendation engines — free APIs covering 20,000+ titles.

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Art And Culture

1APIs

Open-access APIs from the world's top museums and cultural institutions — high-resolution artwork images, provenance data, exhibition records, and artist biographies for educational and creative apps.

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Artificial Intelligence

7APIs

General AI resources spanning LLMs, AI cloud platforms, foundational frameworks, and APIs for developers integrating intelligence across text, image, audio, and code workflows.

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Audio & Voice

9Tools

AI tools for text-to-speech in 60+ languages, zero-shot voice cloning, podcast editing with filler-word removal, AI music generation from text, and professional audio enhancement.

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Authentication

6APIs

Authentication APIs for OAuth 2.0 social login, passwordless magic links, passkeys, MFA with TOTP or SMS, JWT management, and identity verification — with HIPAA and SOC 2 compliant options.

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Automation

2APIs

Workflow automation APIs connecting 5,000+ apps — trigger-action platforms, browser automation, RPA, headless browser testing, cron job scheduling, and API orchestration for lean teams.

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Bioinformatics

3Models

AI models for protein structure prediction, genomic variant analysis, drug discovery, molecular docking, and biological sequence generation — AlphaFold, ESMFold, EvoDiff, and beyond.

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Blockchain

10APIs

Web3 infrastructure APIs for querying balances and transactions across 20+ chains, reading smart contracts, fetching NFT metadata, tracking DeFi positions, and receiving on-chain webhooks.

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Books

5APIs

Book metadata, ISBN lookup, library catalog search, audiobook data, reading list management, and literary APIs covering 130M+ titles for book apps, reading trackers, and e-commerce.

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Calendar

1APIs

Calendar integration APIs for reading and writing events, detecting availability, booking appointments, managing recurring schedules, and handling time zone conversions across Google and Outlook.

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Chatbot & Assistant

9Tools

AI chatbots and conversational assistants for reasoning, coding help, real-time web search, document analysis, and multi-step problem solving — from ChatGPT to Claude to DeepSeek.

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Code Generation

4Models

AI models for code completion, natural-language-to-code generation, bug detection, code review, test generation, and refactoring — across 80+ programming languages.

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Coding & Development

13Tools

AI coding tools and IDE integrations — real-time completions, autonomous code editing, PR review, refactoring suggestions, and agentic app building without leaving your editor.

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Collaboration

1APIs

Team collaboration APIs for messaging bots, document co-editing, project tracking, video conferencing automation, whiteboarding, and design system integration for distributed teams.

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Communication

3APIs

Communication APIs for SMS, email delivery, push notifications, voice calls, WhatsApp Business, in-app chat, and OTP verification — reaching users reliably across 195+ countries.

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Computer Vision

2APIs4Models

Object detection, image segmentation, OCR, face recognition, depth estimation, and pose detection models — including YOLO26, SAM 3, and RT-DETR for real-time visual AI applications.

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Data

1APIs

Open datasets, data enrichment, government statistics, demographic feeds, and structured data APIs for analytics dashboards, research tools, and machine learning pipelines.

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Database

4APIs

Managed database APIs — SQL, vector, time-series, graph, and NoSQL — with serverless scaling, generous free tiers, and sub-10ms latency from providers like Supabase, PlanetScale, and Pinecone.

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Development

26APIs

Developer tooling APIs — GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD pipelines, package registries, code quality gates, container orchestration, and engineering metrics for DevOps and platform engineering teams.

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Ecommerce

1APIs

E-commerce APIs for product catalogs, inventory sync, order management, shipping rate calculation, price comparison, and marketplace integrations — covering Shopify, Amazon, and WooCommerce ecosystems

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Education

8APIs

Education APIs for course catalogs, LMS integration, language learning content, vocabulary exercises, flashcard systems, certification tracking, and open educational resource discovery.

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Embeddings

3Models

Text and multimodal embedding models for semantic search, RAG pipelines, clustering, and similarity retrieval — including NVIDIA NV-Embed-v2 (72.31 MTEB) and Qwen3-Embedding for multilingual use.

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Environment

1APIs

Real-time and historical environmental data APIs — air quality indices (AQI), water quality, pollution tracking, deforestation alerts from satellite imagery, and climate monitoring from 30,000+ global

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Events

1APIs

Event discovery APIs for concerts, sports, conferences, and local activities — covering ticketing, venue data, performer rosters, seat maps, and demand forecasting from Ticketmaster, Eventbrite, and S

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Finance

6APIs5Models

Finance APIs and AI models covering real-time stock and forex data, crypto prices, payment processing, open banking, portfolio optimisation, fraud detection, and credit risk scoring.

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Food & Drink

6APIs

Recipe search, nutrition lookup, restaurant discovery, cocktail databases, barcode scanning for allergen data, meal planning, and food delivery APIs covering 2M+ recipes.

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Fun & Entertainment

10APIs

Free and open APIs for jokes, trivia questions across 500+ categories, memes, inspirational quotes, horoscopes, random facts, and riddles — most require no API key.

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Gaming

4APIs

Gaming APIs for comprehensive game metadata, player stats, esports brackets, live scores, leaderboards, Steam store data, and achievement tracking across 500,000+ titles.

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Generative Models

2APIs3Models

Foundational generative AI architectures — LLMs for text and code, diffusion models for image and video, VAEs for latent manipulation, and multimodal generators producing any media from any prompt.

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Geolocation & Mapping

12APIs

Geocoding, reverse geocoding, place search, interactive maps, distance matrices, turn-by-turn routing, and IP-to-location APIs for ride-share, delivery, travel, and location-aware applications.

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Headless CMS

2APIs

API-first headless CMS platforms delivering structured content via REST and GraphQL to any frontend — web, mobile, AR, and IoT — with visual editors for non-technical teams.

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Health

1APIs2Models

Health APIs and AI models for medical information, FDA drug databases, clinical trials, nutrition data, fitness wearable integration, symptom checking, and diagnostic imaging — HIPAA-aware providers i

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Image Generation

6Models14Tools

Diffusion and flow-matching AI models for text-to-image, inpainting, outpainting, ControlNet composition, and high-resolution upscaling — including FLUX.1, Stable Diffusion 3, and DALL-E 3.

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Machine Learning

9APIs

ML infrastructure APIs for model training, AutoML, feature stores, model serving, experiment tracking, and MLOps pipelines — covering Vertex AI, SageMaker, Hugging Face, and open-source alternatives.

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Multimodal

10Models

AI models that natively process and generate across text, image, audio, and video in a unified architecture — GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, LLaVA, Qwen-VL, and Gemini Embedding for cross-modal applications.

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Music

2APIs

Music metadata, audio features, playlist management, lyrics, artist data, and recommendation APIs covering 100M+ tracks from Spotify, Apple Music, MusicBrainz, and Genius.

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Natural Language Processing

4APIs30Models

NLP models for text classification, sentiment analysis, summarisation, machine translation, named entity recognition, question answering, and conversational AI — 2M+ models on Hugging Face Hub.

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Network

1APIs

Network intelligence APIs for IP geolocation with ISP data, DNS record lookup, WHOIS queries, SSL certificate validation, proxy and VPN detection, and connectivity diagnostics.

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News

2APIs

News aggregation APIs delivering real-time headlines, full article search, topic filtering, sentiment data, and source metadata from 70,000+ global media outlets — with free tiers for developers.

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Productivity

2APIs31Tools

Productivity APIs and AI tools for task management, calendar scheduling, note-taking, document generation, and workflow automation — covering Notion, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Zapier.

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Religious & Spiritual APIs

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Open-access APIs for the Bible in 50+ translations, Quran with Arabic text and translations, authenticated Hadith collections, Islamic prayer times, Hebrew calendar, and Buddhist scripture databases.

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Research & Data

4Tools

AI research tools for real-time web research with citations, academic literature review, scientific paper synthesis, market research, and evidence-based fact-checking — from Perplexity to Elicit.

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Science & Nature

14APIs

APIs for species identification, chemical compound properties, biodiversity records, geological survey data, plant and animal databases, and scientific reference data — most free and open-access.

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Scientific AI

AI models for scientific discovery — superhuman weather forecasting, materials science, drug design, physics simulation, climate modelling, and earth observation across physics, chemistry, and biology

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Search

6APIs

Search APIs for web search, image search, semantic vector search, full-text search, product discovery, and custom search engine integration — covering Bing, Algolia, Typesense, and Meilisearch.

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SEO & Marketing

6Tools

AI SEO and marketing tools for keyword research, on-page content scoring, site auditing, backlink analysis, rank tracking, topic cluster planning, and competitor gap analysis.

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Space

Space and astronomy APIs for NASA APOD, real-time ISS tracking, exoplanet databases, Mars Rover photos, near-Earth object alerts, satellite positions, and solar weather forecasts.

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Speech & Audio

3APIs10Models

Speech recognition in 99 languages (Whisper large-v3), TTS synthesis, voice cloning, music generation, and audio classification models — open-source and API options for every use case and budget.

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Sports

1APIs

Sports data APIs with live scores, play-by-play updates, team and player statistics, fixture schedules, fantasy sports data, and betting odds — covering 30+ sports across global leagues.

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Storage

1APIs

Cloud storage APIs for object storage, file hosting, media CDN delivery, image transformation, backup, and large-scale asset management — from AWS S3 and Cloudinary to Supabase Storage and R2.

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Sustainability

1APIs

Sustainability APIs for carbon footprint calculation per activity and shipment, renewable energy generation data, ESG metrics, deforestation monitoring, and corporate environmental impact reporting.

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Tools & Utilities

5APIs1Models

AI-powered utility tools for file type detection, system automation, screen capture with OCR, keyboard macro programming, clipboard intelligence, and developer tooling that amplifies daily workflows.

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Transportation

2APIs

Transportation APIs for real-time public transit schedules, flight tracking by route or registration, vehicle data lookup, ride-share pricing, and multi-modal route planning across global cities.

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Video Generation

14Tools

AI video generation tools for text-to-video, photorealistic AI avatars in 120+ languages, video dubbing and lip-sync, animation from still images, and scriptless corporate video production.

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Weather

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Weather APIs for real-time conditions, hourly and 10-day forecasts, historical climate data, UV index, air quality index, and severe weather alerts — with 1,000 free calls/day from OpenWeatherMap.

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Writing & Content

11Tools

AI writing tools for blog posts, ad copy, email sequences, social captions, long-form articles, product descriptions, and brand voice — from Jasper and Copy.ai to Writesonic and Anyword.

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The complete guide

How to find free APIs, AI models & AI tools by category

Browsing by category is the fastest way to find the right building block for your next project. FreeAPIHub groups every API, AI model and AI tool into 59 clearly defined categories — from Natural Language Processing, Productivity, Development and more— so a single search for a topic like “weather”, “payments” or “image generation” surfaces one curated shortlist instead of three scattered ones. Every resource is hand-checked and tagged with its category and access type — free, freemium or open source — before it goes live, so the counts on each card are real and the list stays trustworthy.

API vs AI model vs AI tool — what's the difference?

These three layers solve overlapping problems in different ways. An API gives you a callable endpoint you wire directly into your app — request data, get a response. An AI model is the underlying capability — a large language model, an image generator, a speech recogniser — that you can self-host or call through a provider. An AI tool is a finished product an end-user opens in the browser. A single weather project might combine a weather API for raw data, a forecasting model for prediction, and a writing tool to turn the forecast into copy — same category, three layers.

How to find free and open-source resources fast

Use the type tabs at the top of this page to switch between APIs, AI Models and AI Tools, then sort by Most Resourcesto see which categories are deepest. If you specifically need free APIs with no credit card, or open-source models you can run locally, open a category and filter by access type — every listing shows its pricing and licensing up front, so you never have to sign up just to discover a plan isn't free. The Recently Added section above tracks the newest entries across all three types.

Which category should you start with?

If you're exploring, the deepest categories are a good entry point — they tend to have the most free options and the most active maintenance. Natural Language Processing, Productivity, Development are popular starting points, but the full directory above covers everything from developer tooling and authentication to maps, finance and natural-language processing.

Frequently asked questions

Are the APIs and tools here really free?

Every resource is labelled with its access type — free, freemium or open source — so you can see the cost before you click through. Pricing can change on the provider's side, so each listing links to the official site to confirm the current plan.

What does “open source” mean for an AI model?

Open-source models ship with weights or code you can download and run yourself, often free for personal and commercial use under their licence. Always check the specific licence on the model's page, since terms vary between permissive and restricted licences.

How often is the directory updated?

New APIs, models and tools are reviewed and added on a rolling basis — the Recently Added section on this page reflects the latest published entries.

Can I use these resources in a commercial project?

Many can, but licensing and rate limits vary by provider. Open each resource and review its official terms before shipping to production.