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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
Claim 300 bonus credits and an up-to-90% discount through this Tripo creator invite. Eligibility and final pricing are confirmed by Tripo.
VC-backed startups building on Gemini can get up to $350,000 in Google Cloud credits over two 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.
Max and Team subscribers get $100-$200/month (Team: up to $500 pooled) of Claude API credits, no card needed on the Console.
Modal's Starter plan includes $30 of free compute credit every month for serverless GPUs, CPUs and sandboxes.
Microsoft for Startups offers Azure credits of up to $150,000, AI tools and technical support to eligible startups.
Open Kaggle competitions (ARC-AGI-2 and ARC-AGI-3) plus a paper prize, with $2M in prizes and submissions due Nov 2, 2026.
Online build Nov 3-8, 2026 on lablab.ai: build a sandboxed agent on Vultr; every participant gets $200 in Vultr credits.
Global online Devpost hackathon: build something with PayPal APIs and AI by Nov 12, 2026 for a share of $69,750.
AWS Activate gives startups $1,000-$5,000 (self-funded) or up to $200,000 (via an Activate Provider) in AWS credits, usable on Bedrock.
NVIDIA Inception is free to join, with discounts, training and access to free cloud credits from NVIDIA and partners.
Cloudflare gives startups $10K, $100K or $350K in credits for a year, depending on funding and partner backing.
Seed-to-Series A startups new to Modal can apply for a one-time grant of free GPU credits plus engineering support.
Early-stage startups can get 12 months of free ElevenLabs access with 33 million characters (about $5,500 of value).
Startups backed by an eligible VC partner can unlock OpenAI credits plus technical and go-to-market support.
Accepted researchers get free access to Cloud TPUs from a pool of 1,000+ devices.
US researchers and educators can request compute, models and platform resources for 12-month AI research projects.
Faculty, research staff and graduate students can apply for AWS promotional credit; student awards go up to $5,000.
AI safety and alignment researchers can apply for $1,000 in free Claude API credits.
Researchers studying responsible AI deployment and societal impact can apply for up to $1,000 in OpenAI API credits.
Builders of interesting Spaces can apply from the Space settings for a free GPU hardware upgrade.
European SMEs and startups can apply any time for 1-3 months of AI Factory supercomputer access, granted within 2 working days.
Qualifying open-source maintainers and contributors can apply for 6 months of Claude Max 20x at no cost.
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.
Mistral's free mode lets you create API keys and use a limited included monthly usage, no prepaid credits needed.
Cohere trial (evaluation) keys are free but limited to 1,000 API calls a month.
Z.ai lists GLM-4.7-Flash, GLM-4.5-Flash and the vision model GLM-4.6V-Flash as free on input, cached input and output.
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.
Zed Pro offers a 14-day free trial with $5 of GPT-6 Luna usage and unlimited accepted edit predictions.
Claude Pro is $17/month when billed annually ($200 upfront) versus $20 billed monthly, and includes Claude Code.
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.
Approved startups in Europe and Asia start with $1,000 of fal credits, scaling to $5,000 as monthly spend grows.
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.
VC-backed startups can get discounted LangSmith rates and up to $10,000 in credits.
Neon advertises up to $100k in credits for early-stage startups, plus sponsorship for open source projects.
Verified students get GitHub Copilot Student (unlimited completions plus an AI credit allowance) and dozens of other partner offers.
Full-time university students get $100 in Azure credits, 12 months of free services and no credit card needed.
Verified students and educators can get Perplexity Pro for $10/month, with everything in Pro.
Verified students pay $5.99/month for Mistral Pro instead of $14.99, for up to 12 months.
Eligible US college and grad students get four free monthly billing periods of ChatGPT Plus; claim by October 31, 2026.
Virtual 10-day hackathon building on Meta's Muse models for a share of $1,000,000 in cash prizes; application closes October 25.
Eligible US college students 18+ can get a year of Google AI Pro free, with 4x higher Gemini limits and 5 TB storage.
Opt in to share API traffic with OpenAI and eligible orgs get up to 1M-10M complimentary tokens a day on listed models.
New Google Cloud customers get $300 in free credit to try products including Gemini on Vertex AI, with no charge until you upgrade.
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.
New AWS accounts get $100 in credits at sign-up and can earn $100 more, usable for Bedrock and 90+ other services.
Activating Model Studio (Singapore region) gives a free token quota per model, typically 1M tokens each, valid for 90 days.
OpenRouter lists open and partner models at $0 per token; request caps depend on how many credits you have bought.
New Cerebras accounts get $5 in credits after adding a verified payment method; credits expire in 30 days.
build.nvidia.com offers free API access to hosted models for prototyping once you join the NVIDIA Developer Program.
SambaNova's free tier applies when no payment method is linked: 20 requests/min, 20 requests/day and 200K tokens/day per model.
Selected startups get $15K-$50K in Together platform credits plus free forward-deployed engineering hours, based on funds raised.
Baseten says new accounts come with credits to try the UI and experiment with deployments for free.
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.
Sign up through a RunPod referral link, load $10, and you get a random bonus credit of $5-$500 (Europe: fixed $5).
New Azure customers get $1,000 in Azure credits instantly and up to $5,000 total after business verification.