9 live offers · updated 2026-10-13

Free RAG and vector DB tiers

Free tiers for building RAG and agents: Pinecone, Qdrant, Voyage AI embeddings, Exa, Tavily, Firecrawl, LangSmith and Langfuse. Limits checked against official pages.

$310 in stated maximum credits across these offers

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$300

Pinecone Standard trial

$300 in credits during a 3-week trial of the Standard plan (database, inference and Assistant usage)

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Start the free trial from the Pinecone pricing page
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New Standard-plan trials
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Trial lasts 3 weeks; Standard then has a $50/month minimum
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: pinecone.io
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
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Resets on the 1st of each month; no rollover
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: exa.ai
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
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Anyone
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Refreshes monthly; no rollover
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: docs.firecrawl.dev
liveFree tiers
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)
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Recurring monthly
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: langchain.com
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)
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Anyone
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Recurring monthly
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: langfuse.com
liveFree tiers
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)
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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
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Ongoing
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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
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Anyone
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Resets on the 1st of each month
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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)
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Any account
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One-time allowance per account
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✓ Terms checked 2026-10-13Source: docs.voyageai.com

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