AI Horde community inference (anonymous)

The terms in full

AI Horde is a standing free, community-hosted text and image inference service backed by volunteer compute. It permits anonymous API use with the public key 0000000000 and requires no registration, credit card, or payment. Anonymous jobs receive the lowest queue priority, and the provider states that priority can only be earned by contributing compute and can never be bought or sold. Capacity and model availability depend on the volunteer workers connected at the time. An OpenAI-compatible endpoint at oai.aihorde.net also accepts the anonymous key at the lowest priority, and the provider describes that endpoint as a pilot that might be restricted or expanded in the future.

• When it runs out Not stated by the provider.
• Clock Standing community service with no published end date; models, queue time, and capacity vary with volunteer workers.
• Region No region restriction stated by the provider.

Models

Dynamic text-model catalog supplied by volunteer workers; availability depends on currently connected workers.

Signup, payment, data

• Signup No registration required for anonymous access; use the public anonymous API key 0000000000. Registered accounts may earn non-purchasable kudos by contributing compute.
• Card / payment No credit card is required. The provider states that AI Horde can be used for free, even anonymously, with no credit card and no paywall, and that there is no way to buy priority.
• Training Not stated by the provider.
• Data terms Generation requests are fulfilled by workers running on computers that volunteers share, so prompts and outputs pass through machines operated by third parties. AI Horde publishes a privacy policy and terms of service, and the same terms and privacy policy apply to the OpenAI-compatible endpoint. The pages reviewed do not state whether prompts or outputs are retained or used to train models.

What the provider's page says

Every structured number above is backed by one of these quotes, checked verbatim against the page our crawler fetched. A field with no quote is shown as not stated.

• payment “Everyone can use AI Horde for free, even anonymously. No credit card, no paywall, and no way to buy priority.” source
• allowance “Everyone can use AI Horde for free, even anonymously. No credit card, no paywall, and no way to buy priority.” source

Evidence pages, re-read nightly

• https://aihorde.net/
• https://aihorde.net/mission/
• https://aihorde.net/api/
• https://oai.aihorde.net/

Change history

1. 2026-10-04 Listing corrected: AI Horde AI Horde community inference (anonymous) our correction, not a provider change
   • free terms AI Horde is a standing free, community-hosted text and image inference service backed by volunteer compute. It permits anonymous API use with the public key 0000000000 and requires no registration, credit card, or payment. Anonymous jobs receive the lowest queue priority, and the provider states tha
   • card No credit card is required. The provider states that AI Horde can be used for free, even anonymously, with no credit card and no paywall, and that there is no way to buy priority.
   • data treatment Generation requests are fulfilled by workers running on computers that volunteers share, so prompts and outputs pass through machines operated by third parties. AI Horde publishes a privacy policy and terms of service, and the same terms and privacy policy apply to the OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Th
2. 2026-09-30 Listing corrected: AI Horde AI Horde community inference (anonymous) our correction, not a provider change
   • card No credit card is required. AI Horde states that everyone can use the service for free, even anonymously, with no credit card, no paywall, and no way to buy priority.
3. 2026-09-28 Listing corrected: AI Horde AI Horde community inference (anonymous) our correction, not a provider change
   • card No credit card is required at any point. AI Horde states that everyone can use the service for free, even anonymously, with no credit card and no paywall.
   • data treatment Requests are processed by volunteer-operated workers around the world. The AI Horde Terms and Conditions and Privacy policy govern the service, including the OpenAI-compatible endpoint at oai.aihorde.net, and the public pages do not state how prompts or outputs are retained or used.
4. 2026-09-22 Listing corrected: AI Horde AI Horde community inference (anonymous) our correction, not a provider change
   • card No credit card is required. AI Horde states that everyone can use the service for free, even anonymously, with no credit card, no paywall, and no way to buy priority.
5. 2026-09-21 Listing corrected: AI Horde AI Horde community inference (anonymous) our correction, not a provider change
   • card No credit card is required. AI Horde states that everyone can use the service for free, even anonymously, with no credit card and no paywall.
6. 2026-09-20 Listing corrected: AI Horde AI Horde community inference (anonymous) our correction, not a provider change
   • card No credit card is required. AI Horde states that everyone can use the service for free, even anonymously, with no credit card, no paywall, and no way to buy priority.