Been exploring local LLMs and free AI APIs lately, and keeping track of what's actually free versus and what's just a credit card gated trial is a mess
Found this repo that compiles open-weight models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Gemma, Mistral), free API providers, local AI tools like Ollama and LM Studio, coding assistants, RAG tools, agent frameworks, image/video/audio models, datasets, and more...
If you're building with AI and want to experiment without spending money on every tool, this is worth checking
github.com/12britz/awesome-f…
A rare case of someone cleaning up the AI ecosystem instead of adding another layer of chaos to it.