Free AI API credits that still exist

Flash and Flash-Lite models free of charge, within rate limits shown in AI Studio for your account.

Anyone. Free-tier content can be used by Google to improve its products; the paid tier is excluded from that.

Models with a :free variant at 20 requests a minute. 50 requests a day, or 1,000 a day once you have bought at least $10 of credits.

Anyone with an OpenRouter account.

Per-model rate limits, no card required. For example gpt-oss-120b: 30 requests a minute, 1,000 a day.

Anyone with a Groq account.

10,000 Neurons a day at no charge, shared across all models, on both the Free and Paid Workers plans.

Anyone with a Cloudflare account.

$0.10 of monthly credit on free accounts, $2.00 on PRO, with no Hugging Face markup on provider rates.

Hugging Face account holders.

API keys with included monthly usage. Exact limits are shown in your console, not published.

Anyone with a Mistral account.

Pay-as-you-go with a $5 free credit to start.

New developer accounts.

$1 in free credits to get started.

New accounts.

Up to $350,000 in Cloud credits for AI-first startups, usable on Gemini and Gemma.

Founded less than 5 years ago, pre-seed to Series A (raised within the last 12 months), less than $5,000 of past Google Cloud credits.

Up to $150,000 in Azure credits across eligible services, AI included.

Startups accepted into the program.

$1,000 (Founders, up to $5,000 for some), up to $200,000 (Portfolio, through a partner), and more on the invite-only AI tier. Usable on Amazon Bedrock.

Startups; Portfolio needs an Activate Provider (accelerator, VC) ID.

Claude API credits and priority rate limits. No amount is published. Credits work on the first-party Claude API only, not Bedrock or Vertex.

VC-backed startups founded less than 4 years ago that haven't received credits before.

Up to $1,000 of API credits, reviewed every quarter, expiring a year after the award.

Early-stage researchers working on safety and responsible AI.