This week in AI credits: 51 new offers, none closed (Nov 9, 2026)
By Perq team (Avatar 8) · · weekly roundup · new offers · closed offers · changed offers
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Every offer on Perq is re-checked against the vendor’s own page each morning. This roundup covers Tuesday, November 3 through Monday, November 9: 51 offers went public, none closed, and a few changed their wording or terms. This morning’s check found all 289 live offers still matching their quoted text.
New today
Five offers reached the public site this morning. Early-access subscribers got them yesterday.
Free plan: $0 with 100,000 runs / day, unlimited public vals and MCP integration
Eligibility: Anyone
“Unlimited public vals 3 days log retention 100,000 runs / day”
Val Town runs small TypeScript functions in the cloud. The free plan includes MCP integration and 100,000 runs a day. The AI credit for Townie is on the paid Pro plan only, so don’t count on it here.
Eligibility: Individuals building personal projects and prototypes
“Free compute plans types have usage limits and are designed to help you to explore new tech, build personal projects, and preview Render's developer experience.”
Render’s Hobby workspace gives you free compute for a web service, Postgres and Key Value, with usage limits. It’s meant for personal projects and prototypes. Startups that want credits should look at Render’s separate startup program instead.
QStash Free: $0/month, 1,000 messages per day, 50 GB bandwidth
Eligibility: Anyone
“Free $0 - Perfect for prototypes and hobby projects. Messages per day 1,000”
QStash is Upstash’s serverless message queue and scheduler, and it also runs Upstash Workflow. The free plan covers 1,000 messages a day. Retries count as messages.
$5 one-time credits on the free Starter plan (no card)
Eligibility: Anyone
“Try Mixedbread with $5 in one-time credits. No card required.”
Mixedbread is managed search and retrieval for RAG. Starter gives you $5 in one-time credits with no card.
Up to $250 in one-time credits
Eligibility: Existing paying Mixedbread users that raised from institutional VC firms, up to $20M in venture funding
“Qualified startups get $250 in one-time credits to build on Mixedbread”
Mixedbread’s startup credits are narrower: you need to already be a paying user and to have raised from institutional VC firms, up to $20M in venture funding.
Deadlines from this week’s additions
Three of this week’s offers have end dates. Claim them soon if they fit.
| Vendor | Offer (vendor wording) | Eligibility | Verified | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HeyGen | HeyGen Voice Turbo Free TTS model: free API requests, no credit balance needed, until November 30, 2026 | Anyone with a HeyGen API key; public voices or HeyGen Voice 1 instant clones (professional clones not supported) | source ↗ · claim ↗ | |
| Fireworks AI | Muse Glimmer 30B SFT free through November 30 (UI + Serverless Training API) | Anyone (no credit card required) | source ↗ · claim ↗ | |
| Kiro | 4,000 free Kiro credits for Kiroween 2026 hackathon participants (one-time grant) | Registered Kiroween 2026 participants with a Kiro account; request by Tuesday, December 1, 2026 at 12:00 PM PT | source ↗ · claim ↗ | |
| Rime | $50 of free usage every month across every Rime model (no card) | Anyone | source ↗ · claim ↗ |
- HeyGen Voice Turbo Free is free until November 30, 2026.
- Fireworks lists Muse Glimmer 30B SFT as free through November 30.
- Kiroween participants must redeem their Kiro credits by December 4, 2026.
- Rime’s free monthly usage doesn’t expire, but its pricing page says Rime STT is free on every plan only through November 19, 2026.
Everything else that went public this week
Agent frameworks, auth and dev tools (Nov 3)
Startup programs, OSS perks and free model access (Nov 4)
Free AI coding agents (Nov 5 and Nov 6)
Databases, realtime and scraping (Nov 7)
| Vendor | Offer (vendor wording) | Eligibility | Verified | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MongoDB | M0 Free forever: 512 MB storage, 32 MB sort memory, up to 100 ops/sec | Anyone | source ↗ · claim ↗ | |
| Convex | Free plan: $0/month with built-in resources (1M function calls and 20 GB-hours action compute included) | Anyone (personal projects and prototypes; 1-6 developers) | source ↗ · claim ↗ | |
| Blacksmith | 3,000 free GitHub Actions runner minutes per month | Anyone (no credit card required to try) | source ↗ · claim ↗ | |
| $10 GenAI and Cloud monthly credit with Google AI Pro; expanded credits $10/user/mo (Pro) or $40/user/mo (Ultra) | Google Developer Program members who link a Google AI Pro or Ultra plan | source ↗ · claim ↗ | ||
| Ably | Free plan: $0/month, up to 500 MAUs | Anyone | source ↗ · claim ↗ | |
| ZenRows | Free plan: $0/mo, 5,000 credits/month, no card | Anyone | source ↗ · claim ↗ | |
| Scrapfly | 1,000 free API credits on signup (no card, no time limit) | Anyone | source ↗ · claim ↗ |
Observability, voice and deploy (Nov 8)
| Vendor | Offer (vendor wording) | Eligibility | Verified | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PostHog | Monthly free allowance on every product: 1M analytics events, 5K session recordings, 1M feature flag requests, 100K AI observability events | Anyone | source ↗ · claim ↗ | |
| Langfuse | Hobby plan: 50k units / month included, free (no card) | Anyone | source ↗ · claim ↗ | |
| deepset | Studio: $0 with 100 pipeline hours, 1 workspace, 50 files | Individuals prototyping AI applications | source ↗ · claim ↗ | |
| Hookdeck | Developer plan: always $0, up to 10,000 events per month | Anyone | source ↗ · claim ↗ | |
| Deno | Deno Deploy Free: $0 with 1M requests/month, 20GiB egress, 10 hr CPU time | Personal use and smaller projects | source ↗ · claim ↗ |
Closed this week
None. The three offers already marked closed stay listed with their closing dates.
Changed on the vendor’s page
These offers were re-checked after their source text changed. Each card shows the current wording.
- Mistral Free mode now covers Vibe and Studio only. It doesn’t include API access, so we took it out of the LLM API free tier pack. It’s still listed.
- AMD AI Developer Program no longer states a dollar amount. The page now says the program gives complimentary credits from AMD Developer Cloud or Fireworks AI, or Token Lab API access.
- Lightning AI now says “Get up to 50 free GPU hours.”
- RunPod Growth was re-quoted from RunPod’s new tier layout.
- Microsoft for Startups now calls them “Startup credits”, still up to $150,000.
- Camber (GitHub Student Pack) now lists compute hours, storage and agent messages per month. The GPU-hours wording is gone.
- Parallel now offers $5 free monthly with a card on file, plus up to $80 at signup.
- Browser Use’s pricing FAQ confirms the $1 signup credit is one-time.
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