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Ark — Evidence pending · Free-quota and safe-mode pages conflict on eligibility/re-enabling; this candidate remains unpublished.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.
For core maintainers of important public OSS projects; review considers usage, ecosystem importance and active maintenance.
A valid ChatGPT account and accurate project/role information are required; maintainer/identity checks may apply. Applying does not guarantee an award.
API credits are an optional additional benefit requiring separate review, for PR review, maintenance automation, releases and core OSS workflows; not a general signup grant.
Six-month Pro, Codex Security and API credits have separate conditions; subscription benefits are not API credit amounts.
Amount, duration and activation windows follow written award/redemption instructions; benefits are personal, nontransferable, not for resale/exchange and have no cash value; the program may change.
Card / payment method:Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Identity verification:Additional identity checks may apply in the verification/review process; confirm applicability in the account.
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.
Friend registers through the unique link and makes a first valid holiday bundle purchase; payment must be at least 24 hours old and pass automatic checks.
Each milestone applies once; up to 10 referrals and 25 entries total; bundles earn no commission.
Use earned entries by 2026-10-11 23:59:59 Beijing time.
Purchasing ends on October 7 Beijing time; no exact time was stated. October 8 00:00 is only the latest possible end bound.
Captured public statement only; eligibility/redemption is unverified. Source credits are not converted to API tokens or cash.
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:Actual top-up/purchase is required, possibly by the referred party; not a no-spend signup reward.
Invitation / referral:A valid referral is required; any separate payment conditions also apply.
Application / review:Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Renewal / paid conversion:Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Reviewed facts and source evidence
This card summarizes reviewed facts without republishing full provider statements. Evidence identifiers support verification.
Event bonus stacks with membership rebates 10/8/6%; nameplate bonuses are separate.
Membership upgrade requires a single payment of 200 credits, or 300 from member position 301; the upgrading payment uses the prior status and the next payment uses the new status.
After reaching 1000 cumulative credits, accumulation restarts; splitting payments does not earn duplicate make-up rewards.
Captured public statement only; eligibility/redemption is unverified. Source credits are not converted to API tokens or cash.
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:Actual top-up/purchase is required, possibly by the referred party; not a no-spend signup reward.
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 evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Reviewed facts and source evidence
This card summarizes reviewed facts without republishing full provider statements. Evidence identifiers support verification.