The closest thing might be the Arcane Talent feat: Choose a cantrip, cast it thrice a day. Other similar feats are Psychic Adept (chosen psychic knack 3/d) and Nature Magic (constant know direction and another druid orison 1/d). These feats are a tad weak IMO, but can be useful or at least thematic.
Now two of these three feats have moderate requirements: Arcane Talent demands a certain race, Psychic Adept has Psychic Sensitivity as requirement. With Nature Magic you get away with a single rank in a skill. I'd count "bloodrager / paladin / ranger" as another moderate requirement.
And I'd stick with SLAs - no need to add level 0 spells if the player can use only very few of them.
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I give those classes cantrips out of the box. They get (level + bonus)/4 rounded down, so for example a ranger with 12 Wisdom (+1) gets the first at 3rd level, the second at 7th, etc. You'll have to make the spell list yourself; some supposedly 1st level spells for those classes (eg create water, resistance, detect poison) are cantrips for other classes so should be for them too.
I doubt it would break anything to give them cantrips. I think Mudfoot has a good idea.
Another idea would be to give them cantrips equal to their first level spells for a character 4 levels higher. So a Paladin/Ranger would get 1/day at 2nd level, 2/day at 5th level, 3/day at 9th level, 4/day at 13th level . That keeps them vaguely in keeping with the class's spell progression, and it hardly unbalances anything.
(Technically a Bloodrager would get them 1 pevel earlier, since Bloodragers don't start their spells with 0/day. You could bump the Paladins/Rangers 1 level too if you wanted to, I doubt it would change much.)
I suspect a lot of bloodragers etc. will want their feats for direct combat use especially at low levels. For all that Paizo was apparently worried about the possibilities, I don't see it breaking the game or making for power creep either. Giving free cantrips as per Mudfoot/Mr Cha is a little power creep but not a lot.
well the fact that a lightbringer elf (or any other race with unlimited racial sla, can also be a teifling with death sight sla) can cast any 0 level spell all day long as long as a humanoid wish for it (including him) if he's adopted by a Geniekin (trait adopted > minor wish craft).
id say for a feat it shouldn't be to strong to allow a few cantrips.
I think that compared to what other feats offer, it would be outrageous to allow a single feat to open up at-will cantrips.
However, I am in the process of combining all the 4/9 spell lists into one 4th-level caster list that will be available to all 4/9 casting classes... it includes Knacks.
Going off of the Ranger's spells per day, and the Medium's spells known progression. Sadly, there is only the Medium's list to use for cantrips/orisons... no other 4/9 caster offers them to contribute to the combined list.
Child of War gets a Wizard cantrip at 2,6,12,18... and it is probably worth allowing 4/9 casters to choose a 0-level spell from the Wizard list at those levels for any and all 4/9 casters.
There are obviously spells that are unique to the classes they came from, and they will remain unique to those classes... Instant Enemy is not suddenly available to Antipaladins, or whatever. I have left some of the super nature spells only for Rangers, there are spells that are still only available to the list they originated from.
However, the 90% bulk of the lists are being combined for all 4/9 casters to use in my games going forward...
It would be simple to give them a cantrip slot, and a cantrip known, per level up till they can cast their first level spell. It should not cost them a feat.
There is a 2RP racial trait called Fey Magic that gives 3 0-level spells and 1 1st-lvl spell as 1/day SLA's in a favored terrain, AND also gives you two skills as class skills. If you're going to charge a feat, you should make it something like this except usable in all terrains. Otherwise, you can just give them +2RP so they can take this Fey Magic alt racial and call it good.
Edit: I quoted it for reference.
Fey Magic (2 RP): The character has a mystic connection to one terrain type, selected from the ranger’s favored terrain list. The character selects three 0-level druid spells and one 1st-level druid spell. If the character has a Charisma score of 11 or higher, when in the selected terrain, she gains these spells as spell-like abilities that can be cast once per day. The caster level for these effects is equal to the user’s character level. The DC for the spell-like abilities is equal to 10 + the spell’s level + the user’s Charisma modifier. These spells are treated as being from a fey source for the purposes of the druid’s resist nature’s lure class feature and similar abilities. In addition, select two of the following skills: Acrobatics, Bluff, Climb, Diplomacy, Disguise, Escape Artist, Fly, Knowledge (nature), Perception, Perform, Sense Motive, Sleight of Hand, Stealth, Swim, or Use Magic Device. The selected skills are always class skills for the character. Lastly, the human also gains low-light vision. This trait replaces skilled.
Just give them cantrips/orisons, and be done with it.
There is no way a single feat that grants cantrips would ever be balanced against other feats that already exist... so don't even try it. Because then you might as well make custom feats for all sorts of stuff you want.
Or, just give all spellcasters access to those spells of the absolutely lowest level because they are already capable of casting higher level spells...