FreeLLMAPI Setup: Connect Claude for free 7.4B AI Tokens

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Connect Claude to free LLM APIs with FreeLLMAPI — an open-source router that stacks the free tiers of 34 providers (Groq, Cerebras, Google AI Studio, NVIDIA NIM, Mistral, OpenRouter, Cohere and more) into one OpenAI-compatible endpoint worth roughly 7.4 billion tokens a month. In this video I install FreeLLMAPI, add provider API keys, configure the fallback chain, and point Claude Desktop at the local endpoint. Automatic failover when a provider rate-limits, per-key usage tracking, encrypted key storage, fully self-hosted. ⚠️ This does not unlock Anthropic's own Claude models for free — it routes requests to free third-party models through an Anthropic-compatible API format. Repo: github.com/tashfeenahmed/freellmapi Chapters: 0:00 what 7.4B free tokens actually means, 0:xx the catch, 1:xx install, 3:xx grabbing free keys from Groq/Cerebras/Google, 6:xx connecting Claude, 9:xx rate limits and failover, 12:xx is it worth it. json for claude settings "mcpServers": { "freellmapi": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-fetch" ], "env": { "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "http://localhost:3001", "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "freellmapi-87991f34c83816943133d9bda9c2f2cc9fc0a8b7c33f2308" } } }