Find official starter credits, free APIs and cloud credits, then compare third-party offers.
Starter trials, recurring allowances, student/research and business applications are listed separately. Cloud credits cover different services and are not withdrawable cash; confirm eligibility in your official account.
Searched a fixed 62-provider list plus OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity; attempted at least two distinct pricing/terms entrypoints per provider and two gap followups. Missing bodies and conflicting terms remain pending. This is finite coverage, not a complete worldwide list or proof of personal eligibility.
Checked:
Alibaba Cloud — New opportunity confirmed
Tencent Cloud — Previously listed offer checked
Baidu Qianfan — Previously listed offer checked
Volcengine Ark — Evidence pending · Free-quota and safe-mode pages conflict on eligibility/re-enabling; this candidate remains unpublished.
Zhipu BigModel — New opportunity confirmed
Moonshot Kimi — New opportunity confirmed
DeepSeek — No publishable offer confirmed
SiliconFlow — New opportunity confirmed
ModelScope — New opportunity confirmed
MiniMax — Evidence pending
StepFun — New opportunity confirmed
iFlytek Spark — New opportunity confirmed
SenseTime SenseNova — New opportunity confirmed
Huawei Cloud — New opportunity confirmed
Xiaomi MiMo — New opportunity confirmed
360 Zhinao — New opportunity confirmed
Baichuan — New opportunity confirmed
InternLM — Evidence pending
Groq — Previously listed offer checked
Cerebras — New opportunity confirmed
SambaNova — Ended / paid conditions only
Together AI — New opportunity confirmed
Fireworks AI — New opportunity confirmed
Hugging Face — Previously listed offer checked
Mistral AI — Previously listed offer checked
Cohere — Previously listed offer checked
AI21 — No publishable offer confirmed · Multiple entrypoints attempted, one successful body obtained; no in-scope offer confirmed.
NVIDIA — Previously listed offer checked
DeepInfra — Evidence pending
Novita AI — New opportunity confirmed
Nebius — New opportunity confirmed
Baseten — New opportunity confirmed
Replicate — Evidence pending
fal.ai — New opportunity confirmed
RunPod — New opportunity confirmed
Lambda — New opportunity confirmed
Friendli AI — Evidence pending
Chutes — Ended / paid conditions only
Google Cloud — New opportunity confirmed
Microsoft Azure — New opportunity confirmed
AWS — New opportunity confirmed
Oracle Cloud — Previously listed offer checked
IBM Cloud — New opportunity confirmed
DigitalOcean — Evidence pending
Cloudflare — New opportunity confirmed
Modal — Previously listed offer checked
Vercel — New opportunity confirmed
Vultr — Evidence pending · Only one successful body across attempts; complete new-user credit conditions remain pending.
Deepgram — New opportunity confirmed
AssemblyAI — New opportunity confirmed
ElevenLabs — New opportunity confirmed
Speechmatics — New opportunity confirmed
Cartesia — New opportunity confirmed
Hume AI — Evidence pending
Jina AI — New opportunity confirmed
Voyage AI — New opportunity confirmed
Tavily — New opportunity confirmed
Exa — New opportunity confirmed
OpenRouter — Previously listed offer checked
Black Forest Labs — No publishable offer confirmed
Stability AI — New opportunity confirmed
BytePlus — Evidence pending
OpenAI — New opportunity confirmed
Anthropic — New opportunity confirmed
Perplexity — Evidence pending · Old credit search leads lack verifiable current terms; no amount is published.
OFFICIAL APIs & CLOUD CREDITS
Official credits & free allowances
A growing catalogue of checked programs, not every offer on the web. Chat-only free plans are excluded.
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New-user trial / credits4 on this page
New-user trial / creditsEligibility unverified
360 Zhinao new-user CNY 50 credit
360 Zhinao · Company-operated
Official translation and knowledge-base API docs list CNY 50 trial credit for newly registered users.
Further use follows the relevant model/service prices after the credit is consumed.
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New-user trial / creditsEligibility unverified
Baseten new-account deployment credits
Baseten · Inference provider
New accounts include credits to experiment with deployments; amount is unspecified.
Allocation follows approval; confirm regional/payment conditions not stated in these sources. Additional use follows official billing; expiry follows the terms listed here.
After email verification, daily login grants 200 magicubes; linking Alibaba Cloud adds 50 daily. Each API request costs 0.5, 1 or 2 magicubes depending on the model.
Requests can continue while the magicube balance is sufficient; the old 2,000/day quota is not used.
Documentation
Official documents checked
Activity timing
Activity: no uniform cutoff stated; current access unknown
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Student / research credits4 on this page
Student / research creditsEligibility unverified
Together AI invite-only research credits
Together AI · Inference provider
Small grants for student research outside formal classes; no fixed award is guaranteed.
Allocation follows approval; confirm regional/payment conditions not stated in these sources. Additional use follows official billing; expiry follows the terms listed here.
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Student / research creditsEligibility unverified
Nebius research grants
Nebius · Inference provider
GPU cloud, Token Factory and Tavily credits awarded individually by proposal.
Allocation follows approval; confirm regional/payment conditions not stated in these sources. Additional use follows official billing; expiry follows the terms listed here.
Postgraduates, PhD/postdocs, accredited faculty and academic/nonprofit researchers; discretionary approval.
Activate within 30 days of project start; expires 365 days after provision; no commercial/personal use or resale/transfer.
One applicant per research team and one application for the same project; service allocation follows approval.
Cannot be combined with other promotions or discounts; eligibility requires willingness to publicly acknowledge the award and participate in co-marketing.
Card / payment method：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Identity verification：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Top-up / purchase：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Invitation / referral：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Application / review：Application, review, eligibility verification or a coupon award is required; applying does not guarantee acceptance.
Renewal / paid conversion：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
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Student / research creditsEligibility unverified
Lambda research GPU grant
Lambda · Inference provider
Qualifying researchers can apply for up to US$5,000 Instances compute credits.
Grant approval comes first; launching requires a supported-country credit card and refundable $10 authorization. Use within the listed expiry; additional services are billed.
Research grant application, award subject to approval; selected research may be featured.
Ordinary service launch requires a card with refundable $10 authorization; no card-free claim.
General credits expire 12 months after issue unless instrument specifies earlier and may be revoked; no cash value.
Purchasing is limited to the official country/region list; mainland China is not listed. It includes Australia, Canada, Chile, EU except Lithuania, Iceland, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, UAE, UK and USA. Major credit cards only; debit/prepaid cards are unsupported.
Card / payment method：Pinned terms require a valid payment method/card; consult this card’s eligibility details.
Identity verification：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Top-up / purchase：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Invitation / referral：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Application / review：Application, review, eligibility verification or a coupon award is required; applying does not guarantee acceptance.
Renewal / paid conversion：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Age 18+, full-time student at an accredited two/four-year degree institution, verified school email; excludes MOOCs and commercial training.
One subscription per person, non-transferable, no card at signup; excludes Azure Marketplace offers.
For education, teaching, non-commercial research and related software development/testing; credit coverage does not guarantee every model entitlement.
Card / payment method：Pinned terms explicitly allow the stated starter/free scope without a payment method; paid upgrades are separate.
Identity verification：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Top-up / purchase：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Invitation / referral：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Application / review：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Renewal / paid conversion：Pinned terms pause/close access or revert to Free at expiry/exhaustion; paid upgrade/renewal requires a choice. Other overages remain separate.
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Startup credits7 on this page
Startup creditsEligibility unverified
Together AI Startup Accelerator
Together AI · Inference provider
Apply for up to US$15,000 / 30,000 / 50,000 platform credits by funding stage.
Allocation follows approval; confirm regional/payment conditions not stated in these sources. Additional use follows official billing; expiry follows the terms listed here.
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Startup creditsEligibility unverified
Fireworks startup credits
Fireworks AI · Inference provider
Eligible startups can apply for platform credits; no fixed amount is stated.
Allocation follows approval; confirm regional/payment conditions not stated in these sources. Additional use follows official billing; expiry follows the terms listed here.
Registered private for-profit company with functional website, founded within 5 years, VC funding above $500k, no Series D or later.
Approved credits expire after one year; text/vision, images, STT, embeddings, fine-tuning and on-demand GPU usage.
Excludes reserved GPU commitments, SLAs, professional services and premium support; award and regions unspecified.
Program mentions paid continuation with a payment method; current self-serve billing is prepaid with optional auto reload: confirm account terms.
Card / payment method：Some models, verification, billing tiers or upgrade steps require a payment method; this is not a universal free-scope requirement.
Identity verification：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Top-up / purchase：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Invitation / referral：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Application / review：Application, review, eligibility verification or a coupon award is required; applying does not guarantee acceptance.
Renewal / paid conversion：Auto-reload/renewal depends on enabled account settings or award-specific terms; verify in the account.
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Startup creditsEligibility unverified
Novita AI startup credits and spend matching
Novita AI · Inference provider
Approved awards up to US$10,000: up to $1,000 upfront; remaining credits require matching spend.
Approval is required and later credits require 1:1 or 2:1 matching spend; the $10k maximum is not a no-spend gift. One-year validity; additional use is billed.
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Startup creditsEligibility unverified
Baseten AI startup program
Baseten · Inference provider
Approval for up to $25,000 Dedicated Inference/Training and up to $2,500 Model API credits.
Allocation follows approval; confirm regional/payment conditions not stated in these sources. Additional use follows official billing; expiry follows the terms listed here.
AI-core product, VC-funded Seed–Series A, founded less than five years ago.
Net-new customer who has never received Baseten credits; application required, maximum not guaranteed.
Credits expire six months after grant; company domain cannot have a paid plan from 31 days before application through benefit request. Excludes IPO/acquired, education/government/nonprofit, blogs, development shops/consultancies/agencies and certain crypto businesses; region/payment unspecified.
Card / payment method：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Identity verification：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Top-up / purchase：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Invitation / referral：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Application / review：Application, review, eligibility verification or a coupon award is required; applying does not guarantee acceptance.
Renewal / paid conversion：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
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Conditional rewardsEligibility unverified
Cerebras referral token bonus
Cerebras · Inference provider
Valid referral signup gives both parties 200,000 bonus tokens/day, capped at 1,000,000 total per user.
Allocation follows approval; confirm regional/payment conditions not stated in these sources. Additional use follows official billing; expiry follows the terms listed here.