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Cursor — Free & Pro Trial

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free Hobby tier + 14-day Pro trial

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Windsurf — Free Tier

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free Cascade agent with monthly premium-model quota

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Codeium — Individual Free

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free forever — unlimited autocomplete + chat

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Sourcegraph Cody — Free

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free tier — monthly autocomplete + chat quota

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Zed — Free Editor + AI

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free editor with built-in agent (BYO key or hosted)

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Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Up to

$150,000

Azure + OpenAI

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Neon for Startups

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Up to

$2,500

credits

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Modal Startup Credits

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  • Curated
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Compute credits for AI startups

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GitHub Copilot — Free Tier

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free tier — 2,000 completions / 50 chat / month

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OpenAI Free Evaluation Credits

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  • Curated
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

$5

API credit on signup (subject to change)

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Groq Developer Free Tier

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  • Curated
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free tier — Llama, Mixtral inference on LPU

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Hugging Face Inference — Free Tier

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free serverless inference with monthly quota

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Railway Trial

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  • Curated
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

$5

trial + Hobby plan for solo projects

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Upstash — Free Tier

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free tier — Redis, vector search, QStash within published limits

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Mistral — API Free Tier

Mistral AIVerified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free experiment tier — rate-limited API (see console)

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OpenRouter — Starter Credits

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  • Curated
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

$1

starter credits + free-model routing (verify in dashboard)

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Google AI Studio — Gemini API Free Tier

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free Gemini API access with daily rate-limited quota

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Cohere — Trial API Key

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free trial API key — rate-limited model + embeddings access

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Cerebras Inference — Free Developer Tier

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free inference on Llama + Qwen — fastest tokens/sec available

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Replicate — Free Tier + Pay-As-You-Go

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free runs on many public models — usage-billed hosting after

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Perplexity API — Free Monthly Credit

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

$5

/month API credit on Pro — web-grounded model access

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xAI — Developer API Credits

xAIVerified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Developer credits via x.ai console — amount varies by promotion

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Voyage AI — Free Embedding Tokens

Voyage AIVerified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Millions of free embedding tokens per model on signup

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Jina AI — Free API Tokens

Jina AIVerified

  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free API tokens across embeddings, reranker, reader, and search

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NVIDIA Build — Free NIM API Credits

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free API credits across NIM-hosted open models

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SambaNova Cloud — Free Developer Tier

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free developer access to hosted Llama, Qwen, and DeepSeek

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Tavily — Free Search API Credits

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free monthly search API credits — built for LLM agents

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Exa — Free Search API Credits

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free monthly search credits — neural + keyword web search

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Firecrawl — Free Crawl Credits

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free monthly crawl + scrape credits — LLM-ready markdown output

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Browserbase — Free Browser Automation Credits

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free starter browser-session minutes for AI automations

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Qdrant Cloud — Free 1GB Cluster

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free 1GB managed Qdrant cluster — no credit card required

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Weaviate Cloud — Free Sandbox

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free 14-day sandbox cluster for evaluation

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Lightning AI — Free Studios Credits

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  • Official source
  • Solo founder OK
  • No VC needed

Free monthly Studios credits — CPU always-on, GPU by the minute

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