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Run open-source language models on consumer laptops (8GB RAM). Allen AI's OLMo + quantization guide perfect for students in Tier 2/3 cities.

Free GPU compute and API sandbox for students to experiment with Indian AI models including AI4Bharat's IndicBERT and NLP tools.

Streamlit (owned by Snowflake) lets you build interactive AI demos in 10 lines of Python and deploy for free on Streamlit Community Cloud. Extremely popular in Indian data science community for sharing ML models. No frontend skills required — just Python.

Google Colab gives you a free NVIDIA T4 GPU in the browser. No setup, no hardware. Perfect for running ML models, Jupyter notebooks, and fine-tuning experiments from any Indian city. Works on 4G.

Hugging Face Spaces lets you host any ML model as a web app for free. 100,000+ open models including Llama, Mistral, and Whisper. India's AI builders use it for rapid prototyping without cloud bills.

Ollama lets you run Llama 3, Mistral, Gemma, and Phi-3 locally on Mac or Windows. No internet needed after download. Ideal for Indian developers with data privacy concerns or unreliable connections.

Groq's free API tier runs Llama 3, Mixtral, and Gemma at 500+ tokens/second — faster than any other free service. Indian builders use it as a fast, cost-free alternative to OpenAI for prototypes.

Google's Gemini 1.5 Flash is free up to 1,500 requests/day. Supports 1M token context, image understanding, and code generation. The best free LLM API for Indian developers building production apps.

OpenAI's free Playground lets you experiment with GPT-4o, prompt engineering, and function calling. $5 free credits on signup. Essential for understanding how LLM APIs work before building.

Krutrim Cloud provides Indian-sovereign GPU inference for Llama, Mistral, and Krutrim's own models. Data stays in India. Competitive pricing vs AWS/Azure. Built by Ola's Bhavish Aggarwal.

Bhashini is India's national language AI platform — free APIs for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and translation across 22 official Indian languages. Built by MeitY, free for Indian developers.

IIT Madras's AI4Bharat provides free open-source models: IndicBERT (text), IndicTrans2 (translation), Dhruva (speech), and Sarvam (voice). All trained on Indian language data. API access is free.

LangChain is the standard framework for building LLM-powered applications: chatbots, RAG systems, agents, and pipelines. Free, open-source, extensive docs. Start with the Python quickstart.

Vercel's free AI SDK connects Next.js or React apps to any LLM (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Groq) in minutes. Handles streaming, tool calls, and multi-step agents. Indian developers use it with Krutrim too.

E2E Networks is India's GPU cloud provider — A100, H100, and RTX 4090s at 40–60% lower cost than AWS/Azure. Ideal for Indian startups and researchers who need training compute inside India.

Replicate hosts 10,000+ open-source models as APIs. Run Stable Diffusion, Llama, Whisper, and more with a single API call. Pay-per-use, no server management. Good for Indian developers testing ideas.

Kaggle gives 30 hours/week of free GPU (P100/T4) with 100GB storage. India has one of Kaggle's largest user bases. Use it for competitions, learning, and running ML experiments.

Claude 3.5 Haiku is free on the Anthropic API (limited calls/day). Excellent for document analysis, long-context tasks, and coding. India-based developers use it as a GPT-4o alternative.