Curated 550+ free LLM tools for builders (APIs, local models, RAG, agents, IDEs)

I spent the whole day putting together a big list of free or cheap LLM tools that are actually useful if you’re building stuff. Tried to focus more on local models + dev tools instead of those generic “1000 AI websites” type lists. It includes: • local models (Ollama, Qwen, Llama etc) • free LLM API