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51<br>Alive<br>Dead / Paid<br>42<br>Broken now
Built for developers who need a free API that actually works today. We ping every tracked API hourly and surface uptime, speed, and free-tier quality in a single ranked list — no five-year-old GitHub lists with broken links.<br>Categories<br>cryptocurrency<br>dev-tools<br>finance<br>geocoding<br>news<br>public-data<br>weather<br>Explore by use case<br>Free LLM & AI APIs — eight providers with genuine free tiers, compared<br>Free AI image generation APIs — seven providers including Pollinations (no signup)<br>Free stock photo APIs — Unsplash, Pexels, Pixabay, Picsum, Openverse compared<br>Free APIs with no API key — call the endpoint directly, no signup required<br>Free APIs with no credit card — genuine free tiers, zero billing risk<br>Most reliable free APIs by uptime — top 10 ranked by 30-day average from our checks<br>Fastest free APIs by response time — top 10 by latest measured latency<br>Best free public APIs of 2026 — top 3 per category, curated from live data<br>Recent events<br>2026-07-16 03:00 — Frankfurter went 🔴 Offline<br>2026-07-16 02:30 — Blockchair API went 🟢 Online<br>2026-07-16 01:30 — Blockchair API went 🔴 Offline<br>2026-07-16 01:00 — Frankfurter went 🟢 Online<br>2026-07-16 00:30 — IPinfo went 🟢 Online<br>See all status events →<br>Recent articles<br>Why the GitHub public-apis List Is Broken in 2026 (And What to Use Instead) — Jun 4, 2026<br>An audit of the 350k-star public-apis/public-apis repo against live HTTP checks: 6 APIs prominently listed are dead or paid, dozens more are flaky. The breadth-vs-freshness trade-off, with data.<br>Free Public API Directories Compared: Which One to Use in 2026 — May 17, 2026<br>An honest comparison of public-apis on GitHub, publicapis.io, and FreeAPI.watch. Different tools for different jobs.<br>Building a Weather App in 2026? Here's the Free API Stack I'd Use — May 2, 2026<br>Open-Meteo for forecasts, Nominatim for location lookup, Open-Meteo Air Quality for pollution data. Code snippets and gotchas included.<br>All articles →<br>Tracking 99 APIs · last refreshed 2026-07-16 03:33 UTC