Free for testing LLM API

Axel ULLERN

Hi, do you know any of the LLM providers that proposes a free API with free prompts through Dataiku LLM mesh (on limited basis of course) so using one of the LLM recipes of Dataiku

the reason why i ask this : i am teaching to students data science using Dataiku , i would like to have my students practicing Gen AI through Dataiku and my students are not ready to pay for accessing LLM and they don't understand (me either ) why ChatGPT or others accept a free direct access (ask a question ) but when you access through a platform like dataiku with an API key it is not free anymore.

is there a technical reason that justify this difference of tarification according to the access ? Why not a free limited number or size of prompts ?

I made some research : the french based LLM from Mistral seems to propose a free API key but when I want to access Mistral (with the API key created on Mistral website )from a LLM recipe of dataiku i am blocked : i suppose because i did not provide my credit card number to Mistral ? then i was expecting that DeepSeek because it is open source LLM would propose a free API plus limited number of prompt , but apparently not.

Thanks for your help

Axel

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