Anthropic (Claude) Up to $100K in additional API credits, claimed through your VC accelerator perk Startups backed by a VC in Anthropic's partner network Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Cloudflare 10,000 Neurons per day free on Workers AI free tier Anyone on Workers Free or Paid Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Cohere Free Trial API key (rate-limited; 1,000 API calls/month cap) free tier All new Cohere accounts Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Google (Gemini API) Free of charge input/output on Free Tier models (rate-limited) free tier Anyone with an AI Studio API key (free tier project) Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Groq Free Plan with per-model rate limits (RPM/RPD/TPM/TPD) free tier Anyone with a GroqCloud account Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Jina AI 10M free tokens with every new API key free tier New API keys Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Mistral AI Included monthly usage in Free mode (limits shown in console) free tier Any Mistral Studio account Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Novita AI Apodex 1.1 Mini listed with free input/output free tier Novita AI users Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET OpenAI Free daily token quota (e.g. 1M tokens/day on eligible models) when sharing traffic with OpenAI free tier Eligible API orgs that enable data sharing (offer shown in settings) Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET OpenRouter Free :free model variants — 50 requests/day (1,000/day after buying 10 credits), 20 RPM free tier Any OpenRouter account Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Perplexity pplx-decider models: free output tokens, $0.02/$0.01 per 1M input free tier Perplexity API users Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET SambaNova Opportunity to earn credits via SambaNova Developer Community free tier SambaNova Cloud developers Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Vercel $5/month AI Gateway credit included on every team free tier Every Vercel team Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Voyage AI (MongoDB) First 200 million tokens free per account (voyage-4 family embeddings) free tier Every Voyage account Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET AI21 Labs $10 credits for 7 days, no credit card signup credit New AI21 accounts Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Cerebras One-time $5 promotional credit (expires 30 days after activation) signup credit Accounts that add a valid payment method Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Fireworks AI $1 starter credit signup credit New Fireworks accounts Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Anthropic (Claude) Discounts and credits worth up to $45,000 from partner companies (+ Claude API credit for members) startup program Early-stage founders accepted to Claude Startups Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Fireworks AI Fireworks for Startups program credits (amount not stated publicly) startup program Private for-profit, founded within 5 years, VC-backed >$500k, not Series D+ Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET OpenAI API credits + dedicated support through eligible VC partners (amount not stated) startup program Startups backed by eligible OpenAI VC partners Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Together AI Up to $50K in free platform credits ($15K <$5M raised; $30K $5–10M; $50K >$10M) startup program Selected AI startups, funding-gated tiers Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Google (Gemini) Free 1-year Google AI Pro student plan student/education Eligible U.S. college students 18+ Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Mistral AI Mistral Pro for $5.99/month (normally $14.99) for verified students student/education Verified students at accredited higher institutions Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET OpenAI Up to $1,000 of OpenAI API credits, valid 12 months student/education Researchers (esp. with limited resources); reviewed quarterly Oct 19, 2026, 6:09 AM ET Together AI Muse Spark Open free for limited time (promo until 10/18/2026) Closed on Oct 18, 2026 free tier Together AI customers (prepaid account) Oct 17, 2026, 2:40 PM ET