19 live offers · updated 2026-10-13

Free AI tiers

Ongoing free tiers for AI APIs and tools: rate limits, who qualifies and how to start.

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$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 2026-10-13Source: exa.ai
liveFree tiers
$10

Mistral free plan

Monthly usage shared across Studio, the API and Vibe Code; third-party trackers report $10/mo, usable on the Mistral Large 4 preview

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Sign up for Mistral Studio (free mode is the default), create an API key
Who
Anyone
Expires
Recurring monthly
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: docs.mistral.ai
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Free tier

Claude artifact usage promo

Work right after creating or editing an artifact uses 50% less of your 5-hour limit (Free/Pro/Max/Team)

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Applies automatically
Who
Claude Free/Pro/Max/Team
Expires
2026-10-15 11:59 PM PT
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: support.claude.com
liveFree tiers
Free tier

Cloudflare Workers AI daily allowance

10,000 Neurons/day free for Workers AI inference

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Use Workers AI from any Cloudflare account
Who
Any Cloudflare account
Expires
Resets daily
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: developers.cloudflare.com
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 2026-10-13Source: docs.cohere.com
liveFree tiers
Free tier

ElevenLabs Free plan

10,000 credits/month across text to speech, speech to text, sound effects, voice design and music

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Sign up at elevenlabs.io
Who
Anyone; commercial license starts on paid plans
Expires
Recurring monthly (no rollover on Free)
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: elevenlabs.io
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 2026-10-13Source: docs.firecrawl.dev
liveFree tiers
Free tier

Gemini API free tier

Free input/output tokens on select Gemini models; free Search grounding on some models

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Create an API key in Google AI Studio, no billing needed
Who
Anyone in supported regions (free-tier data may be used to improve products)
Expires
Ongoing
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-12 · link OK 2026-10-13Source: ai.google.dev
liveFree tiers
Free tier

GitHub Copilot Free

2,000 code completions/month + an allowance of GitHub AI Credits

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Enable Copilot Free in GitHub settings or your IDE
Who
Individual devs without an org-assigned seat
Expires
Ongoing
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: docs.github.com
liveFree tiers
Free tier

Groq free tier

30 RPM / 1,000 requests/day / 200K tokens/day on GPT-OSS 120B/20B and Qwen3.8-27B

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Sign up at console.groq.com and create a key
Who
Anyone
Expires
Ongoing
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: console.groq.com
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Free tier

LangSmith Developer plan

Free seat with 5K base traces/month for LLM tracing and evals, plus 7 LSUs/month of Fleet agents

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Sign up at smith.langchain.com
Who
Solo developers (1 seat)
Expires
Recurring monthly
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: langchain.com
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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 2026-10-13Source: langfuse.com
liveFree tiers
Free tier

NVIDIA NIM APIs (build.nvidia.com)

Free, rate-limited API access to hosted NIM models for prototyping

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Create an account and generate a key at build.nvidia.com
Who
Anyone; production needs an AI Enterprise license
Expires
Ongoing (dev/test only)
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-12 · link OK 2026-10-13Source: build.nvidia.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 2026-10-12 · link OK 2026-10-13Source: raw.githubusercontent.com
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Free tier

Pinecone Starter plan

Free vector database: 2 GB storage, 2M write and 1M read units/month, 5M embedding tokens/month, Assistant with 500K input tokens/month

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Sign up at pinecone.io and create an index
Who
Anyone (AWS us-east-1 only, up to 5 indexes)
Expires
Ongoing
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: pinecone.io
liveFree tiers
Free tier

Qdrant Cloud Free Tier

Free-forever single-node cluster (0.5 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 4 GB disk) with free cloud inference on selected models

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Sign up at cloud.qdrant.io and create a free cluster
Who
Anyone, for testing and prototypes
Expires
Ongoing
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: qdrant.tech
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 2026-10-13Source: docs.tavily.com
liveFree tiers
Free tier

Voyage AI free tokens

First 200M tokens free per account on voyage-4, voyage-4-large, voyage-4-lite, voyage-context-4 and code models, plus 200M free reranker tokens

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Create a Voyage AI account and API key; free tokens apply automatically (not to the Batch API)
Who
Any account
Expires
One-time allowance per account
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: docs.voyageai.com

See also: Free LLM API credits · Student AI deals · AI startup credits · Free AI coding tools · Free voice AI credits · Free RAG and vector DB tiers · Free Gemini API credits · Free Claude credits · Free GPU and inference credits · GitHub Copilot free · All 46 offers

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