Two free-tier LLM proxies share GitHub's trending page

free-claude-code picked up 1,081 stars in a single day, pushing it to 48,433. It stacks 50 ToS-friendly providers behind one local server, routing nine agents through free-tier access worth roughly 1.3 billion tokens a month.

That volume is the point. Every provider in the stack sized its free tier for one low-volume user, not for a server relaying nine agents' worth of traffic through it.

Three rows down the same trending page sits freellmapi, at 19,591 stars. It takes a different shape: 34 free providers pooled behind one OpenAI-compatible /v1 endpoint, adding up to about 7.4 billion tokens a month.

Both projects solve the same problem. Free tiers from individual model providers are small and scattered. Aggregate enough of them behind a single interface and a hobbyist gets enterprise-scale token volume for nothing.

That's also the risk. A tool that pools 50 providers into one agent-facing server creates a usage pattern none of them signed up for. Their terms of service weren't written with an aggregator in mind.

I don't know which provider moves first, or whether it's a quiet rate-limit change or a public ToS rewrite. Watch for the first provider that explicitly bans proxy or aggregator traffic in its terms. That's the moment this category gets a lot smaller.