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Ark — Evidence pending · Free-quota and safe-mode pages conflict on eligibility/re-enabling; this candidate remains unpublished.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 / creditsEligibility unverified
Cerebras 30-day inference trial
Cerebras · Inference provider
One-time US$5 promotional credit; expires 30 days after activation with a valid payment method.
A valid payment method activates the trial; exhaustion or 30-day expiry pauses access, with no automatic charge or paid enrollment.
Development/evaluation/experimentation, not production.
Valid payment method required; no automatic charge or paid enrollment; API/Playground pause at expiry/exhaustion unless PayGo purchased separately.
Nontransferable/no cash value; abuse/duplicate accounts may be revoked; regions unspecified.
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：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.
Only participating models in Beijing; allowances are separate by model and snapshot.
90 days from the later of activation, release or approval; re-registering the same verified identity gives no repeat grant.
Covers real-time inference; excludes Batch, tuning, deployment and storage.
Verified users switch to billing unless stop-on-exhaustion is enabled; unverified users must verify and recharge after exhaustion.
Card / payment method：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Identity verification：The pinned terms distinguish verified/unverified users; verification and top-up are needed after exhaustion for unverified users, not established as a universal free-start prerequisite.
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 evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
No prior paying use of Google Cloud, Maps or Firebase, and no prior trial; payment information is required for identity checks.
Eligible Google Cloud AI services are in scope; AI Studio Gemini API and third-party managed generative model APIs are excluded. Non-billable trial accounts cannot use GPUs/Marketplace or request quota increases.
Manual upgrade retains unused credit only within the original 90 days; this is distinct from the existing up-to-$350K AI startup application.
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：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.
One free account per eligible customer; phone, Microsoft/GitHub account and non-prepaid credit/debit card required. Hong Kong and Brazil require credit cards; temporary authorization may occur.
Covers most Azure services; excludes support, Azure DevOps, Visual Studio subscriptions/App Center, ExpressRoute, third-party, Marketplace and separately licensed products. Eligibility for every AI model is not guaranteed.
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：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.
The Free plan covers selected services, including SageMaker AI; check Bedrock features/activities and AgentCore separately by plan. Universal free Bedrock access is not promised.
The current FAQ says most new users need no payment method, but verification may require one. Activate requires a Paid plan and is unavailable on the Free plan.
The Free plan closes after up to six months or depletion. The FAQ states six months generally but 12 months in paid-upgrade/activity sections; verify account-specific credit expiry.
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：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：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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New-user trial / creditsEligibility unverified
Oracle Cloud $300 trial
Oracle Cloud · Official platform
Eligible trial users receive $300 of service credit for up to 30 days; this is not a permanent free generative-model tier.
Without upgrading to a paid account, no paid usage charges apply; after upgrade, billing begins at trial expiry/depletion and downgrade is unavailable.
One free account per person; accurate identity/contact details required, usually phone and a credit card or credit-style debit card. Virtual, prepaid, single-use and PIN debit cards are not accepted.
Eligible OCI services are covered and the official page lists AI API services; model-specific Generative AI credit eligibility remains unverified, so universal availability is not promised. Region, capacity and service limits apply.
Ends at 30 days or depletion; without upgrade, paid trial resources are reclaimed, while eligible Always Free resources remain subject to limits.
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：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.
Multiple knowledge bases consume the shared hours; the old-user promotion ended on 2026-02-03.
Only runtime specification charges are covered; model calls and external vector databases are separate.
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：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Renewal / paid conversion：Overages, depletion or the end of the benefit can trigger automatic billing/paid conversion; verify budgets and cancellation settings.
Free mode is intended for evaluation and prototypes.
Organization/model request, throughput and monthly limits apply; regional/additional identity eligibility follows account rules; no universal token grant is claimed.
Free-mode inputs/outputs may be used for training; users can opt out. ZDR requires pay-as-you-go.
Current API key quickstart explicitly states default free access needs no credit card; paid student Education plans are separate.
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 evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Available with Workers Free and Paid; Free requests fail once the allowance is exceeded.
Some frontier models require a paid billing method via Workers Paid or prepaid AI Gateway credits.
Cloudflare does not train or improve services using Workers AI customer content without explicit consent.
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：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.
Starter includes US$30 monthly compute credit for workloads such as self-hosted model inference and training.
Payment method required; compute beyond the $30 grant is automatically charged monthly or at billing thresholds. Shared Endpoints are billed separately without using compute credits.
Documentation
Official documents checked
Activity timing
Activity: no uniform cutoff stated; current access unknown
Deploy your own workload; GPU, CPU and memory usage are metered separately.
Starter workspaces support up to 3 seats; credits do not mean unlimited GPU time.
Net spend limits differ from usage budgets; default spend limits can exceed credits, so inspect billing budgets.
Shared Endpoints token usage is billed from the first request and does not use the Starter US$30 compute credit.
A valid payment method must be on file; monthly automatic billing and threshold-triggered charges may apply.
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：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Renewal / paid conversion：Overages, depletion or the end of the benefit can trigger automatic billing/paid conversion; verify budgets and cancellation settings.
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Startup creditsEligibility unverified
Microsoft for Startups credits
Microsoft Azure · Official platform
The current path starts at up to $200, reaches $5,000 after business verification, and may unlock up to $150,000 through sustained adoption and usage; the ceiling is not signup credit.
Non-cash service credit. Sponsorship terms allow automatic PAYG conversion and billing at Usage Cap/End Date unless law or written terms override; verify the specific offer.
Requires an owned software product, private for-profit status, supported region, pre-Series-C stage and no more than $350K lifetime free Azure credits; excludes schools, government, consultancies/agencies and mining.
Initial identity verification uses personal LinkedIn; $5K requires a registered legal entity. Higher tiers require sustained workloads and usage, not a simple claim.
Eligible Azure AI/Foundry models are supported; Sponsorship excludes third-party-branded, Marketplace, support and separately sold products. Payment information is required.
End Date and Usage Cap are invitation-specific; the $25K milestone grants a one-time two-year extension, not a universal fixed validity period.
Card / payment method：Pinned evidence does not establish this prerequisite; confirm with the provider. Unknown does not mean no requirement.
Identity verification：This program requires verified identity; ordinary account registration is not treated as identity verification.
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：Overages, depletion or the end of the benefit can trigger automatic billing/paid conversion; verify budgets and cancellation settings.
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Startup creditsEligibility unverified
AWS Activate startup credits
Amazon Web Services · Official platform
Founders starts with a $1,000 application, selected startups up to $5K; Portfolio offers up to $200K, with invite-only AI expansion beyond that. These are not automatic grants.
Paid accounts bill excess and ineligible services; credits do not guarantee spending stops.
Requires a Paid Tier account, founding within ten years, pre-Series-B stage and a new or higher-than-prior credit application; Portfolio requires an Activate Provider Org ID and approval is discretionary.
Third-party foundation models on Bedrock are eligible; the Marketplace exception is specific to Bedrock third-party model spend, not all Marketplace purchases.
Excludes domain registration/transfers, upfront Reserved Instances/Savings Plans, taxes and other ineligible fees; validity follows the awarded credit expiry, not an assumed universal duration.
Promotional-code activation requires a valid credit card; credits cannot be sold, cashed out or passed to end customers.
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：Some tiers, matching stages, account plans or continued use require actual spend; consult the spending and billing terms.
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.