12 live offers · updated 2026-10-30

Free AI credits, no card needed

Free AI API credits and tiers whose official terms say no card is needed: Deepgram, Speechmatics, AssemblyAI, Replicas, Fireworks, OpenRouter free models, Cohere, SambaNova, Exa, Tavily, Firecrawl and Langfuse.

$461 in stated maximum credits across these offers

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liveAPI credits
$200

Deepgram $200 signup credit

$200 in free credit (about 43,000 minutes of Nova transcription), no card, no expiry until used

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Sign up at console.deepgram.com/signup; the credit is applied automatically
Who
New accounts
Expires
No expiry (one-time per new account)
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-30Source: deepgram.com
liveAPI credits
$100

Replicas free usage

$100 of free usage running Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or OpenCode in isolated cloud Linux VMs, no card

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Sign up at replicas.dev, connect a GitHub or GitLab repo (a test repo is fine) and send a task
Who
New accounts
Expires
One-time (plan details on the pricing page)
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-30Source: replicas.dev
liveAPI credits
$100

Speechmatics $100 free credits

$100 in free credits for speech-to-text (pre-recorded and real-time) and text-to-speech, no card; TTS also includes the first 1 million characters free

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Sign up at speechmatics.com (Start free); credits apply to your account automatically
Who
New accounts; free tier is limited to 2 concurrent real-time sessions
Expires
Sign-up bonus credits last 12 months
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-30Source: speechmatics.com
liveAPI credits
$50

AssemblyAI $50 free credits

$50 in free credits for speech-to-text (pre-recorded and real-time), Voice Agent API and Speech Understanding; LLM Gateway excluded

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Sign up at assemblyai.com; no card required
Who
New accounts
Expires
Credits don't expire
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-30Source: assemblyai.com
liveFree tiers
$10

Exa free tier

$10 in search API credits every month (up to 2,500 Instant searches) + a one-time $10 bonus for finishing onboarding

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Sign up at exa.ai, get an API key, complete dashboard onboarding for the bonus
Who
A user's first team; no payment method needed
Expires
Resets on the 1st of each month; no rollover
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-30Source: exa.ai
liveAPI credits
$1

Fireworks AI starter credit

$1 in serverless inference credits, no card (10 RPM without a card)

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Sign up at fireworks.ai
Who
New accounts
Expires
One-time
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-30Source: docs.fireworks.ai
liveFree tiers
Free tier

Cohere trial key

Free trial key: 1,000 API calls/month (Command 20 req/min, Rerank, Embed)

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Sign up; the trial key is created automatically, no card
Who
Anyone, for evaluation
Expires
Ongoing (non-commercial use only)
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-30Source: docs.cohere.com
liveFree tiers
Free tier

Firecrawl free plan

1,000 credits/month (about 1,000 scraped pages or 500 searches), 2 concurrent requests, no card

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Sign up at firecrawl.dev and create a key
Who
Anyone
Expires
Refreshes monthly; no rollover
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-30Source: docs.firecrawl.dev
liveFree tiers
Free tier

Langfuse Hobby plan

50K units/month of LLM tracing, evals and prompt management, 30 days of data, 2 users, no card; students and researchers can apply for up to 100% off paid plans

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Sign up at langfuse.com (or self-host the open-source version free)
Who
Anyone
Expires
Recurring monthly
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-30Source: langfuse.com
liveFree tiers
Free tier

OpenRouter :free models

Free model variants: 20 RPM, 50 requests/day (1,000/day after buying $10 in credits)

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Use model IDs ending in :free
Who
Anyone, no card
Expires
Ongoing
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-30Source: openrouter.ai
liveFree tiers
Free tier

SambaNova Cloud free tier

Free API access with no payment method: 20 requests/min, 20 requests/day and 200K tokens/day per model on DeepSeek-V3.1, Llama 3.3 70B and gpt-oss-120b (plus preview DeepSeek-V3.2 and Gemma 4 31B)

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Sign up for SambaCloud and create an API key; don't link a card (linking one moves you to the Developer tier)
Who
Anyone; preview models are for evaluation only
Expires
Ongoing
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-30Source: docs.sambanova.ai
liveFree tiers
Free tier

Tavily Researcher plan

1,000 search API credits/month free, no card; Tavily also says it's free for students

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Sign up at tavily.com and copy your API key
Who
Anyone
Expires
Resets on the 1st of each month
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-30Source: docs.tavily.com

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