KeylessAI — Free OpenAI API Alternative (No API Key Required)

A drop-in OpenAI-compatible endpoint with zero API keys, zero signup, zero cost, and zero user compute. Point your OpenAI client at https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1 — that's it. Your existing OpenAI code, Aider, Cline, Continue.dev, LangChain, Codex, and anything else that speaks the OpenAI chat-completions protocol just works. Model-name aliasing (gpt-4o, claude-3-5-sonnet-latest, etc.), adaptive multi-provider failover, prompt cache, circuit breaker, rate limiting — all handled at the edge.

Live demo: https://lordbasilaiassistant-sudo.github.io/keylessai/

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Why this exists

If you run autonomous coding agents, chatbots, or LangChain pipelines, your OpenAI bill can easily hit hundreds to thousands a month. KeylessAI routes those same calls to public, no-auth LLM endpoints — most notably Pollinations.ai, which exposes an OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint on their anonymous tier. Swap one env var; your agent bill goes to $0.

KeylessAI adds the layer on top of raw Pollinations that makes this usable in production: multi-provider aggregation (Pollinations + ApiAirforce today, more as they appear), a client-side single-flight queue so parallel callers don't blow through the 1-concurrent-per-IP limit, and aggressive filtering of the deprecation notices and promo-URL ads that upstream providers occasionally inject into responses.

The one-liner

export OPENAI_API_BASE="https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1"
export OPENAI_BASE_URL="https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1"
export OPENAI_API_KEY="not-needed"
# now run your agent — no changes to your code

That's the whole setup. Hits a Cloudflare Worker at the edge that wraps our router: 4 keyless upstream providers with adaptive failover, prompt cache, circuit breaker, per-IP rate limiting, model-name aliasing so gpt-4o / claude-3-5-sonnet-latest / etc. resolve automatically. Cloudflare's free tier covers 100k req/day; past that it degrades to 429s instead of billing anyone.

Try it right now:

curl https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"gpt-4o","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hi"}]}'

Other ways to use it

Same router, same code, different packaging:

• Library import (npm install github:lordbasilaiassistant-sudo/keylessai) — runs in your own Node process. Used by keylessai-daily to auto-update its README every day via GitHub Actions.
• Local proxy (npx github:lordbasilaiassistant-sudo/keylessai serve --local) — same OpenAI-compatible HTTP surface, running on 127.0.0.1:8787. For air-gapped environments or when you prefer zero external dependencies.
• Self-hosted Worker — fork the repo and cd worker && npx wrangler deploy to your own Cloudflare account. Source is in worker/.

Works with

Once npx keylessai serve is running, every OpenAI-compatible tool works against https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1 with no code changes:

Tool	Integration
Aider	OPENAI_API_BASE=https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1 OPENAI_API_KEY=not-needed aider --model gpt-4o  (gpt-4o gets aliased)
Cline / Roo Code	Settings → OpenAI provider, baseUrl = https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1, key = not-needed
Continue.dev	~/.continue/config.json → provider "openai", apiBase: "https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1", apiKey: "not-needed"
Codex CLI	export OPENAI_BASE_URL=https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1 OPENAI_API_KEY=not-needed && codex
Claude Code	via LiteLLM bridge — translate Anthropic format to OpenAI
LangChain	ChatOpenAI(base_url="https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1", api_key="not-needed", model="openai-fast")
OpenAI SDK (Python)	OpenAI(base_url="https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1", api_key="not-needed") — pass any model name
OpenAI SDK (Node)	new OpenAI({ baseURL: "https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1", apiKey: "not-needed" })
LlamaIndex	OpenAI(api_base="https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1", api_key="not-needed")
LiteLLM proxy	api_base: https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1, api_key: not-needed
OpenHands	LLM_BASE_URL=https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1 LLM_API_KEY=not-needed LLM_MODEL=openai/openai-fast
Anything OpenAI-compatible	Point baseURL at https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1, pass any key

Quick examples

Start the proxy first:

npx github:lordbasilaiassistant-sudo/keylessai serve
# → listening on https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev

Python (streaming):

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1",
    api_key="not-needed",
)

for chunk in client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-4o",  # aliased — actually served by openai-fast
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "write a haiku about free AI"}],
    stream=True,
):
    print(chunk.choices[0].delta.content or "", end="", flush=True)

curl (streaming):

curl -N https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer anything" \
  -d '{
    "model":"gpt-4o-mini",
    "messages":[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
    "stream":true
  }'

LangChain:

from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI

llm = ChatOpenAI(
    base_url="https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1",
    api_key="not-needed",
    model="gpt-4o",  # aliased
    streaming=True,
)
for chunk in llm.stream("Explain server-sent events in 2 sentences."):
    print(chunk.content, end="", flush=True)

Health check + model list:

curl https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/health
curl https://keylessai.thryx.workers.dev/v1/models

What you get

Hosted: the browser chat + docs

https://lordbasilaiassistant-sudo.github.io/keylessai/

• Chat UI with provider/model selectors and automatic failover
• </>API drawer with copy-paste snippets for every supported tool

Provider pool the chat + proxy route through

Provider	Auth?	Transport	Model(s)
Pollinations.ai /openai	None — Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *	SSE streaming, OpenAI-compatible	openai-fast (GPT-OSS 20B, tool-capable, reasoning)
ApiAirforce /v1/chat/completions	None — CORS open	SSE streaming, OpenAI-compatible	grok-4.1-mini:free, step-3.5-flash:free, gemma3-270m:free, moirai-agent, translategemma-27b
Pollinations.ai /{prompt}	None	Plain GET, non-streaming	Secondary transport, same model

The router retries providers in order on any failure, serializes calls through a single-flight queue to stay under per-IP rate limits, and auto-detects ad injections / deprecation notices with retry-then-failover. You can also pin a specific provider.

Honest caveats

• The anonymous tier is not GPT-4. It's openai-fast / GPT-OSS 20B — genuinely good at prototyping, glue code, Q&A, JSON emission, and small agent loops. It won't beat Claude 3.5 or GPT-4o on hard reasoning or long-context coding. If your agent needs that, use this for the 90% of cheap calls and reserve your paid key for the hard ones.
• Public endpoints are public endpoints. Pollinations and ApiAirforce are free because their sponsors cover bandwidth. Be respectful — don't hammer them with 1000 rps from a hot loop. If you're building a product that relies on this, self-host Pollinations (their code is open source) or add more providers to the pool.
• Privacy. Calls to the upstream providers leave your machine — treat them like any third-party LLM call. For full privacy, use a local-only stack (llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio) outside KeylessAI.

Use as a library

KeylessAI is also an ES-module library. Anything the proxy does programmatically, you can do from your own Node code — including registering custom providers alongside Pollinations/ApiAirforce so your app fails over across your backends too.

# Install from GitHub (no npm publish required yet):
npm install github:lordbasilaiassistant-sudo/keylessai
# or pin a tag:
npm install github:lordbasilaiassistant-sudo/keylessai#v0.2.1

import {
  streamChat,
  registerProvider,
  setFailoverOrder,
  createProxy,
  PROVIDERS,
  slotGate,
  defaultCache,
} from "keylessai";

// Register your own provider — could be a self-hosted Ollama, a paid API
// you want to fall back to, a mock for testing, anything that implements
// the five required fields.
registerProvider({
  id: "my-local-mock",
  label: "Local Mock",
  async listModels() { return [{ id: "mock-1", label: "mock", provider: "my-local-mock" }]; },
  async healthCheck() { return true; },
  async* streamChat({ messages }) {
    yield { type: "content", text: "hello from my own provider" };
  },
}, { prepend: true }); // try mine first

// Use the router directly
for await (const chunk of streamChat({
  provider: "auto",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "hi" }],
})) {
  if (chunk.type === "content") process.stdout.write(chunk.text);
}

// Or boot the OpenAI-compatible proxy and point your OpenAI SDK at it
createProxy().listen(8787);

Runnable example: examples/custom-provider.mjs

Live demos

• keylessai-daily — a repo whose README writes itself. A GitHub Action calls KeylessAI every day at 09:23 UTC, generates a haiku / tip / joke / one-liner, and appends it to the README. Nobody touches the repo. Total cost: $0. Proof-of-life for the whole stack.

Self-host

This is a pure static site. To run locally:

git clone https://github.com/lordbasilaiassistant-sudo/keylessai
cd keylessai
python3 -m http.server 8080
# or: npx serve .

To deploy your own copy: fork the repo, enable GitHub Pages on main branch root. That's it.

API drawer contents (at a glance)

Click </> API on the live site to see:

• Drop-in OpenAI replacement — bash env vars, Aider, Cline/Roo, Continue.dev, LangChain, OpenAI JS, OpenAI Python
• Raw HTTP — curl, fetch, Python requests for streaming SSE
• Simple GET — URL-encoded prompt, plain-text response
• Model listing — which anonymous-tier models are currently available
• ApiAirforce direct — secondary provider, curl + SDK examples

Every snippet has a one-click copy button.

Support the project

If this saves you $50 on your API bill, consider kicking back $3. No subscription. No login. No feature gates.

$3	$5	$10
You pick (pay-what-you-want)

Roadmap

• More providers — hunting additional truly keyless endpoints (HuggingChat spaces, mistral.rs demos, etc.)
• Markdown rendering + syntax highlighting in chat
• Local chat history
• GitHub Actions auto-deploy on push
• CSP + security headers
• Screenshot gallery

See the issues tab for the full list. PRs welcome — adding a new provider is ~60 lines (see providers/pollinations.js for the shape).

Credits

• Pollinations.ai — public keyless text generation API
• ApiAirforce — free-tier OpenAI-compatible endpoint
• Free-AI-Things/g4f-working — daily-maintained list of currently-working keyless providers
• Built with Claude Code

License

MIT