Gemini free API key: how to get one
Gemini Flash free every day with a Google account. No card.
Checked October 2026. Limits are set by each company and change often.
Google Gemini
- Kind
- Always free, no card needed
- Free limits
- Per project and per model. Flash models get roughly 10 to 15 requests a minute and up to about 1,000 a day; Pro models are paid only.
- Models
- Gemini Flash and Flash-Lite
On the free tier Google may use your prompts to improve its products.
How to get it
- Sign in to Google AI Studio with any Google account.
- Click Get API key, then Create API key.
- Paste it under Google in MultiScreenAI.
Gemini models in MultiScreenAI
The free tier covers Gemini Flash and Flash-Lite; the others need paid usage on the same key.
Then use it with every other AI at once
Paste the key into MultiScreenAI next to any others you have. One message goes to every model on one screen, and test mode times them and hides the names. A few free keys together go a long way.
Questions
Is the Gemini API key really free?
Yes, there is a free tier, with no card needed. Per project and per model. Flash models get roughly 10 to 15 requests a minute and up to about 1,000 a day; Pro models are paid only.
Which models does a free Gemini key reach?
Gemini Flash and Flash-Lite
Can I use the Gemini key with other AIs at the same time?
Yes. Paste it into MultiScreenAI next to your other keys and one message goes to every model at once, answers side by side.
Other free API keys
- Groq
- OpenRouter
- Vercel AI Gateway
- Mistral
- Cerebras
- NVIDIA NIM
- SambaNova
- SiliconFlow
- GLM (Z.ai)
- Cohere
- Hugging Face
- Fireworks
- Qwen
- Cloudflare Workers AI
- Pollinations
- OpenAI (ChatGPT)
- Claude (Anthropic)
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