New users get ~$5 free API credits
New Anthropic API accounts receive approximately $5 in free trial credits, usable across all Claude models (Opus/Sonnet/Haiku). Valid for ~30 days. Startup Program offers up to $25,000 for eligible companies.
⚠ Trial credits expire in ~30 days; Startup Program requires separate application
Free tier: 2,000 completions/mo + students get Pro free
GitHub Copilot Free includes 2,000 code completions and limited Chat/Agent usage per month. Verified students get Copilot Pro completely free (unlimited completions + premium model access). Verified teachers and popular open-source maintainers also qualify for free Pro.
⚠ Students must verify via GitHub Education; Pro $10/mo, Pro+ $39/mo, Max $100/mo
Free tier: 10,000 requests/day (~300K/month)
Cloudflare Workers AI offers a generous free tier with 10,000 AI inference requests per day. Model catalog includes Llama, Mistral, and other leading open-source models. Deployed on global edge network for ultra-low latency.
⚠ Beyond free tier, pay-per-use pricing applies; supports text/image/audio models
Free tier with daily request quotas for Gemini models
Google AI Studio provides free-tier access to Gemini model family including Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash. Free tier has daily RPM/TPM limits, suitable for individual developers and prototyping.
⚠ Free tier has RPM/TPM limits; paid Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.50/$7.50 per MTok
Free tier with limited premium model calls
Cursor offers a free tier with limited monthly premium model invocations and unlimited basic completions. Full Pro access at $20/month unlocks all Agent features and multi-file editing.
⚠ Free tier limited to ~50 premium calls/month; Pro $20/mo
Free models daily quota + 50+ models aggregated
OpenRouter aggregates 50+ AI models with a unified API. Free-tier users get approximately 50 requests/day across all free models. Paid users get 1,000 requests/day. Single API key for GPT, Claude, Llama, Gemini, and more.
⚠ Free models have rate limits; some models require paid tier
US K-12 teachers get 1 year free Claude premium
Anthropic offers free one-year Claude premium membership to eligible US K-12 teachers. Includes access to Claude Pro features for classroom use. Applications open through June 30, 2027.
⚠ Limited to US K-12 teachers; must apply before deadline
Free tier: up to 14,400 requests/day at 750+ tok/s
Groq offers free-tier API access with LPU hardware acceleration (~750 tokens/sec). 8B models get up to 14,400 requests/day, 70B models ~1,000 RPD. Models include Llama 3.3 70B, Llama 4 Scout, Qwen3 32B, Whisper. No credit card required.
⚠ Rate limits vary by model size; 30 RPM; no credit card needed; sign up with Google/GitHub
Free tier: 1M tokens/day at 2,000+ tok/s
Cerebras provides the most generous free tier with 1 million tokens per day and ~2,000 tokens/sec inference speed. Models include Llama 4 Scout, Qwen3 235B, and gpt-oss-120b. 30 RPM limit. No credit card required.
⚠ 1M tokens/day resets daily; 30 RPM; max 8,192 context per request; email signup only
Free tier: ~1M tokens/month + Le Chat free
Mistral offers free API credits (~100 credits/month, approx 1M tokens) covering Mistral Large, Medium, Small and Codestral models. Le Chat consumer app is completely free for daily use. 2 RPM limit on free tier. EU-hosted for data compliance.
⚠ 2 RPM on free tier; 500K TPM/month; Le Chat consumer app free with no API key needed
Free 1,000 credits + 40 RPM for new users
NVIDIA NIM platform offers 1,000 free credits for new users to access enterprise-grade GPU-accelerated inference. Models include DeepSeek V3.2, Kimi K2.5, MiniMax M2.7, GLM-5.1, Llama 4, and Gemma 4. 40 RPM rate limit.
⚠ Phone verification required; credits valid up to 1 year; 40 RPM; multiple open-source models available
Free tier: 200K tokens/day incl. Llama 405B
SambaNova offers free daily access to Llama 3.1 405B (largest open-source model, near GPT-4 level) with 200K tokens/day quota. Also supports other open-source models. No credit card required.
⚠ 200K tokens/day; no credit card; best for accessing largest open-source models for free
Free 50 credits/mo + 500 signup bonus (Claude inside)
Kiro is Amazon's AI IDE powered by Claude Sonnet models. Free tier includes 50 credits/month plus 500 bonus credits for new users (valid 30 days). Sign up with AWS Builder ID, no credit card needed.
⚠ 500 signup credits expire in 30 days; uses Claude Sonnet models; AWS Builder ID required
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite free tier: 30 RPM & 1500 RPD
Google AI Studio offers a free tier for the newly released Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite model, providing 30 requests per minute and 1,500 requests per day at no cost. Suitable for developers building high-volume, low-latency applications.
⚠ Free tier rate limits apply; data may be used for product improvement in certain regions
Students get Cursor Pro free for 1 year
Cursor offers one year of Cursor Pro for free to verified students and educators. Includes 500 fast premium requests per month and unlimited slow premium requests. Verification requires a valid university email or GitHub Student Developer Pack.
⚠ Requires verification with a .edu email or GitHub Student Developer Pack; renews annually while eligible
$10/mo OpenCode Go now includes $100 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash usage
OpenCode launched Phase 4 of its 'Operation Cheepseek' program: subscribers to the $10/month OpenCode Go plan now get DeepSeek V4.1 Flash model usage worth $100 per month, a 10x leverage over the subscription price. The $100 is usage value billed at model rates, not cash balance, and actual usable volume is still subject to rate limits, context length and input/output size.
⚠ Requires an active $10/month OpenCode Go subscription; usage value not cash; subject to platform rate limits. No official end date announced.
Agent promotions — live now
scraped from official event pagesFree models, credit giveaways and limited-time discounts from AI coding tools. Expired entries are dropped automatically.
Starting September 18, 2026 at 10:00, individual users of Qoder International can actively claim 100 general Credits each day in the Qoder desktop app. Both free users and individual paid subscribers can participate. Rewards can be used across all Qoder International products; each reward is valid for 30 days from the date of claim, and unexpired Credits can be carried over across days. All times in this article are
DeepSeek-Flash (DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017) is the official release model launched by DeepSeek on October 17, 2026, leading across the board in agent capabilities, world knowledge, and reasoning performance, with a context window of up to 1M, suitable for everyday development tasks. Starting October 20, 2026 at 00:00, Qoder International
"Efficient" is Qoder's standard reasoning tier: native multimodal, standard reasoning capability, high cost-effectiveness. Starting now, all paid users selecting the "Efficient" tier will no longer be charged Credits, free for a limited time. Campaign details Start time: September 3, 2026 14:00 (Singapore time) End time: TBD. Advance notice will be given before it ends, and this page will be updated accordingly. Applicable products
Invite friends to experience Qoder and unlock a new way to collaborate with AI: when your friend completes registration, activity, and subscription tasks, you can earn up to 1150 credits. Event details: Invite friends to join Qoder; when your friend completes registration, usage, and first subscription purchase tasks, both of you will receive the corresponding credit rewards. Start time: From October 29, 2026. End time: To be determined. An announcement will be posted on this page in advance before it ends. Eligibility
Referrer rewards: base reward 50 credits/person (credited immediately upon your friend's first use), activity reward 100 credits (friend active for 3 days within 7 days), payment bonus 500 credits (friend completes payment); new user gift pack 500 credits.
Zero-priced endpoints on OpenRouter (free daily quota: 20 req/min, 50–1000 req/day depending on balance).
Same Model, Cheaper Provider
OpenRouter routes the same model to multiple providers. Cheaper endpoints are often quantized — the quant tag is shown.
Extracted by a deterministic script (no LLM), so the numbers trace back to an official page.
- 2026-10-20newQoder — New: International individual users can claim 100 Credits per day on desktop (once per round, valid for 30 days); some models (e.g., Qwen3.8-Flash) were once available free with a limited-time 0 billing coefficient
- 2026-10-20newCodeBuddy — New: Education offer: teachers / students get free or discounted quota after verification (subject to the page after verification)
- 2026-10-20newDeepSeek — New: API and web have long-term low-cost tiers; events like "0 credits" and "V3 free calls" return periodically—watch official announcements
⚠ Disclaimer: All deals are sourced from official websites, blogs, or social media. Prices and availability may change without notice. Always verify on the official page before making decisions.