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API credits, free inference tiers, startup programs and research grants from the frontier labs and the long tail. Every offer is checked against the provider’s own page: value, eligibility, limits, deadline, fine print.
Claim 300 bonus credits and an up-to-90% discount through this Tripo creator invite. Eligibility and final pricing are confirmed by Tripo.
For: Eligible accounts claiming this creator invite; Tripo confirms availability during signup or redemption.
300 bonus usage credits; credit cost varies by generation tool
VC-backed startups building on Gemini can get up to $350,000 in Google Cloud credits over two years.
For: Startups that raised Pre-Seed/Seed within 5 years (or Series A within 12 months), founded within 5 years, built on Gemini, with under $5,000 in prior Google Cloud credits
Credits over 2 years
The Gemini API has a free tier with free input and output tokens on Gemini 3.x Flash and Flash-Lite models, no card needed.
For: Anyone with a Google account
Per-project RPM/TPM/RPD, see AI Studio
The Gemini API has a free tier with free input and output tokens on Gemini 3.x Flash and Flash-Lite models, no card needed.
Open Kaggle competitions (ARC-AGI-2 and ARC-AGI-3) plus a paper prize, with $2M in prizes and submissions due Nov 2, 2026.
Groq's free plan gives rate-limited API access, e.g. gpt-oss-120b at 30 requests/min and 1,000 requests/day.
Workers AI includes 10,000 Neurons a day at no charge on the free Workers plan, enough for light inference on open models.
Cohere trial (evaluation) keys are free but limited to 1,000 API calls a month.
Copilot's Free plan gives limited chat and agent usage, including CLI and agent mode, at $0.
Codex has a $0 Free plan for quick coding tasks and a $8/month Go plan for lightweight use.
Signing in with a Google account on Gemini CLI via Gemini Code Assist (Individual) gives 1,000 requests a day free.
Kiro's free tier includes 50 credits and Claude Sonnet 4.5 plus open-weight models; first paid upgrade earns $20 in credit.
Lovable's free plan gives 5 build credits a day (up to 30 a month) plus 20 Cloud credits a month; students can claim a discount.
Claude's Free plan covers web, desktop and mobile chat, web search, file creation, code execution and Artifacts at $0.
Mistral's Free plan offers limited chat, web search, image generation and coding sessions on web and mobile.
ElevenLabs Free gives 10,000 credits a month for text-to-speech, speech-to-text, sound effects, voice design and music.
Runway's Free plan includes 125 one-time credits to try its generative video and image tools.
Krea's free plan gives 100 compute units every day, including its own Krea 2 image model and access to image and video models.
Supabase's Free plan includes Postgres, auth and storage for 2 active projects, with 500 MB database size and 50K monthly active users.
Pinecone's Starter plan is free for trying out and small applications with on-demand database, inference and assistant.
Qdrant Cloud's free tier is a single-node cluster with 1 GB RAM and 4 GB disk, plus free cloud inference with selected models.
Langfuse's Hobby plan is free with 50K units a month, 30 days of data access and 2 users; startup discounts exist on paid plans.
New Google Cloud users with a Gmail account can use Google's Agent Platform APIs free for up to 90 days with an API key and no billing info.
OpenRouter lists open and partner models at $0 per token; request caps depend on how many credits you have bought.
SambaNova's free tier applies when no payment method is linked: 20 requests/min, 20 requests/day and 200K tokens/day per model.
Kaggle gives free NVIDIA P100 GPU time in notebooks, with a weekly quota of about 30 hours.
Lightning's free tier gives up to 80 GPU hours (from up to 30 free credits) plus one free 24/7 Studio, no card needed.
Colab is free to use and includes access to GPUs and TPUs, though without a guaranteed allowance.