# Pollinations free API key: how to get one

> Always free Pollinations API key, no card needed. No sign up needed for basic models, at about one request every 15 seconds. Step by step setup, checked October 2026.

- Kind: Always free, no card
- Limits: No sign up needed for basic models, at about one request every 15 seconds.
- Models: GPT-OSS 20B and community models
- Get the key: https://pollinations.ai

## Steps

1. No key needed for the anonymous tier.
2. Coming to MultiScreenAI soon.

## Use it with every other AI at once

Paste the key into MultiScreenAI (https://www.multiscreenai.com) and ask every model at once, side by side, with a blind test mode. Agents can do the same over MCP: https://www.multiscreenai.com/mcp