Pollinations.AI

Free to use and open source, Pollinations. AI is an AI API platform that generates text, images and audio through simple endpoints geared toward developers.

Basic use needs no registration or API key, and the service is built around privacy and anonymous access, which removes a lot of the usual signup friction when you just want to test an idea.

Pollinations.

AI covers several jobs in one spot: text generation, image generation, text-to-speech and speech-to-text.

That makes it handy if you are prototyping an app that mixes media types and do not want to wire up a different provider for each one.

Support runs through Discord and GitHub, where an active community answers questions and contributes to the project.

You still need some technical knowledge to integrate the API into your own code.

Performance can vary with load, and some features depend on community contributions, so think of it as a good fit for experiments and side projects before you rely on it for anything critical.