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Ark — Evidence pending · Free-quota and safe-mode pages conflict on eligibility/re-enabling; this candidate remains unpublished.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.
Original distribution was October 1, 2026; no top-up required.
A membership upgrade during the event can earn a 7.01-credit difference, without another voucher; gifts do not count toward top-up rebates or membership thresholds.
Claim/make-up deadlines and current availability are unspecified.
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:The original gift explicitly needs no top-up; distribution has passed and late claim is unknown.
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.