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55 startup AI and cloud credit offers, sorted for solo and pre-funding founders by default. Filter by path, stage, credit type, eligibility, and effort.
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30 of 55 offers
Founder fit
How you get credits
Stage
Credit type
Effort
Max difficulty5/5
Max apply time60m
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Browserbase — Free Browser Automation Credits
BrowserbaseVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free starter browser-session minutes for AI automations
Cerebras Inference — Free Developer Tier
CerebrasVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free inference on Llama + Qwen — fastest tokens/sec available
Codeium — Individual Free
CodeiumVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free forever — unlimited autocomplete + chat
Cohere — Trial API Key
CohereVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free trial API key — rate-limited model + embeddings access
Cursor — Free & Pro Trial
CursorVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free Hobby tier + 14-day Pro trial
Exa — Free Search API Credits
ExaVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free monthly search credits — neural + keyword web search
Firecrawl — Free Crawl Credits
FirecrawlVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free monthly crawl + scrape credits — LLM-ready markdown output
GitHub Copilot — Free Tier
GitHubVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free tier — 2,000 completions / 50 chat / month
Google AI Studio — Gemini API Free Tier
GoogleVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free Gemini API access with daily rate-limited quota
Groq Developer Free Tier
GroqVerified
- Curated
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free tier — Llama, Mixtral inference on LPU
Hugging Face Inference — Free Tier
Hugging FaceVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free serverless inference with monthly quota
Jina AI — Free API Tokens
Jina AIVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free API tokens across embeddings, reranker, reader, and search
Lightning AI — Free Studios Credits
Lightning AIVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free monthly Studios credits — CPU always-on, GPU by the minute
Mistral — API Free Tier
Mistral AIVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free experiment tier — rate-limited API (see console)
NVIDIA Build — Free NIM API Credits
NVIDIAVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free API credits across NIM-hosted open models
OpenAI Free Evaluation Credits
OpenAIVerified
- Curated
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
$5
API credit on signup (subject to change)
OpenRouter — Starter Credits
OpenRouterVerified
- Curated
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
$1
starter credits + free-model routing (verify in dashboard)
Perplexity API — Free Monthly Credit
PerplexityVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
$5
/month API credit on Pro — web-grounded model access
Qdrant Cloud — Free 1GB Cluster
QdrantVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free 1GB managed Qdrant cluster — no credit card required
Railway Trial
RailwayVerified
- Curated
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
$5
trial + Hobby plan for solo projects
Replicate — Free Tier + Pay-As-You-Go
ReplicateVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free runs on many public models — usage-billed hosting after
SambaNova Cloud — Free Developer Tier
SambaNovaVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free developer access to hosted Llama, Qwen, and DeepSeek
Sourcegraph Cody — Free
SourcegraphVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free tier — monthly autocomplete + chat quota
Tavily — Free Search API Credits
TavilyVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free monthly search API credits — built for LLM agents
Upstash — Free Tier
UpstashVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free tier — Redis, vector search, QStash within published limits
Voyage AI — Free Embedding Tokens
Voyage AIVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Millions of free embedding tokens per model on signup
Weaviate Cloud — Free Sandbox
WeaviateVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free 14-day sandbox cluster for evaluation
Windsurf — Free Tier
WindsurfVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free Cascade agent with monthly premium-model quota
xAI — Developer API Credits
xAIVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Developer credits via x.ai console — amount varies by promotion
Zed — Free Editor + AI
ZedVerified
- Official source
- Solo founder OK
- No VC needed
Free editor with built-in agent (BYO key or hosted)