Free credits from official providers, free APIs, cloud credits and third-party promotions, in one place.
Grouped into new-user trials, recurring credits, student and research programmes, startup applications and more. Credits only pay for the stated services; where they apply and whether you qualify depend on the official terms and your account.
Current data
73 official offers and 101 relay offers are listed.
OpenRouter — OpenRouter free model API
Up to 50 free-model requests per day, plus per-minute limits. OpenRouter is an a
Core maintainers with write access to public projects may apply for API credits supporting maintenance, PR and release automation. $1 million is the total fund, not a per-applicant grant; six months of ChatGPT Pro is a separate benefit. API and Security require their own review, eligibility and terms, potentially with different duration/scope. Awards are nontransferable and not cash, with redemption expiry specified in the award notice.
Only the stated products, limits, periods and conditions apply. Paid usage, automatic renewal and exclusions follow the retained conditions and current summary.
Source
From the site’s announcement
Offer status
Validity varies; check your account
Can you claim it
Confirm with the provider
Card or payment method: UnclearIdentity verification: DependsTop-up or purchase: UnclearInvitation: UnclearApplication & review: RequiredPaying after it ends: Unclear
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.
Current readable source summary: Core maintainers with write access to public projects may apply for API credits supporting maintenance, PR and release automation. $1 million is the total fund, not a per-applicant grant; six months of ChatGPT Pro is a separate benefit. API and Security require their own review, eligibility and terms, potentially with different duration/scope. Awards are nontransferable and not cash, with redemption expiry specified in the award notice.
Personal eligibility, cash qualification and actual accounts were not tested. Historical restrictions are retained; this observation does not reset an award or expiry.
Card or 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 or purchase: Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Invitation: 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.
Paying after it ends: Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
We checked official offers on a list of 62 platforms, plus OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity. This is not every platform out there, and a listed offer does not mean you will qualify.
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Alibaba Cloud — New offer found
Tencent Cloud — Already listed, checked again
Baidu Qianfan — Already listed, checked again
Volcengine Ark — Terms still being checked · Free-quota and safe-mode pages conflict on eligibility/re-enabling; this candidate remains unpublished.
Zhipu BigModel — New offer found
Moonshot Kimi — New offer found
DeepSeek — No offer we could list
SiliconFlow — New offer found
ModelScope — New offer found
MiniMax — Terms still being checked
StepFun — New offer found
iFlytek Spark — New offer found
SenseTime SenseNova — New offer found
Huawei Cloud — New offer found
Xiaomi MiMo — New offer found
360 Zhinao — New offer found
Baichuan — New offer found
InternLM — Terms still being checked
Groq — Already listed, checked again
Cerebras — New offer found
SambaNova — Ended or paid only
Together AI — New offer found
Fireworks AI — New offer found
Hugging Face — Already listed, checked again
Mistral AI — Already listed, checked again
Cohere — Already listed, checked again
AI21 — No offer we could list · Multiple entrypoints attempted, one successful body obtained; no in-scope offer confirmed.
NVIDIA — Already listed, checked again
DeepInfra — Terms still being checked
Novita AI — New offer found
Nebius — New offer found
Baseten — New offer found
Replicate — Terms still being checked
fal.ai — New offer found
RunPod — New offer found
Lambda — New offer found
Friendli AI — Terms still being checked
Chutes — Ended or paid only
Google Cloud — New offer found
Microsoft Azure — New offer found
AWS — New offer found
Oracle Cloud — Already listed, checked again
IBM Cloud — New offer found
DigitalOcean — Terms still being checked
Cloudflare — New offer found
Modal — Already listed, checked again
Vercel — New offer found
Vultr — Terms still being checked · Only one successful body across attempts; complete new-user credit conditions remain pending.
Deepgram — New offer found
AssemblyAI — New offer found
ElevenLabs — New offer found
Speechmatics — New offer found
Cartesia — New offer found
Hume AI — Terms still being checked
Jina AI — New offer found
Voyage AI — New offer found
Tavily — New offer found
Exa — New offer found
OpenRouter — Already listed, checked again
Black Forest Labs — No offer we could list
Stability AI — New offer found
BytePlus — Terms still being checked
OpenAI — New offer found
Anthropic — New offer found
Perplexity — Terms still being checked · Old credit search leads lack verifiable current terms; no amount is published.