Credits, trials and discounts on AI products — from model APIs and coding assistants to transcription, writing and video tools.
61 active offers
Google Cloud
Google's cloud computing, data and AI platform
Funded startups can apply for Google Cloud credits over two years: up to $200,000, or up to $350,000 for AI startups. There is also a $2k Start tier for earlier-stage startups.
GitHub Copilot
AI coding assistant from GitHub
Students verified through GitHub Education can activate Copilot Student, a free Copilot plan that includes an allowance of GitHub AI Credits and most agent features.
Alibaba Cloud
Cloud computing and AI services from Alibaba Group
AI-first companies founded within the last 10 years can apply for up to $120k in Alibaba Cloud credits and up to 2B free Model Studio tokens. The promotion runs until 31 March 2027.
Pinecone
Vector database for AI
Startups with fewer than 100 employees at Series A or earlier can apply for free access to Pinecone's Standard tier and Pro Support, plus usage credits and discounts.
Pinecone
Vector database for AI
Pinecone organizations can start a 21-day Standard plan trial with $300 in credits and no up-front payment. Each organization gets one trial.
Claude
AI assistant from Anthropic
Paying for Claude Pro yearly costs $200 up front, which Anthropic lists as $17 per month, compared with $20 when billed monthly.
Claude
AI assistant from Anthropic
Registered nonprofits, K-12 schools and some mission-based healthcare providers can get Claude's Team plan, including Claude Code, at $8 per user per month, or $3 for nonprofits in low- and middle-income countries.
Claude
AI assistant from Anthropic
Open-source maintainers and contributors who meet one of Anthropic's criteria can apply for six months of Claude Ultra, the $200-a-month plan, at no cost.
Claude
AI assistant from Anthropic
Principal investigators at universities and nonprofit research institutes can set up a Claude Team plan where standard seats are free and premium seats cost $15 a month for the first 12 months.
Claude Developer Platform
Anthropic's API and console for building with Claude
Researchers at academic and nonprofit institutions can apply for free Claude API credits for high-impact scientific projects; Anthropic reviews applications monthly.
Modal
Serverless GPUs and CPUs for AI workloads
Modal's Starter plan has no base fee and includes $30 of free compute each month for GPUs and CPUs, with usage above that billed pay-as-you-go.
Modal
Serverless GPUs and CPUs for AI workloads
Early-stage startups new to Modal that have raised from Modal's partner VCs, or more than $1M from any fund, can apply for a one-time grant of free compute credits.
GroqCloud
Fast inference API for open models
GroqCloud's Free plan lets anyone build and test with the Groq API at no cost, with usage capped by organization-level rate limits.
Pinecone
Vector database for AI
Pinecone's Starter plan is free and includes up to 2 GB of serverless storage, 2M write units and 1M read units per month.
Qdrant Cloud
Managed Qdrant vector search
Qdrant Cloud's free tier gives you a single-node cluster with 1 GB RAM, 0.5 vCPU and 4 GB disk, with no credit card needed.
Cloudflare Workers AI
Run AI models on Cloudflare's network
Workers AI includes 10,000 Neurons per day at no charge on both the Workers Free and Workers Paid plans; usage above that costs $0.011 per 1,000 Neurons.
Vercel
Frontend cloud for web apps
Vercel accounts get $5 of AI Gateway credits every 30 days to try models from the gateway's catalog; the free credit stops once you buy AI Gateway credits.
Runway
AI video and image generation
Runway's Free plan includes a one-time grant of 125 credits that doesn't expire, for trying a limited set of its generative tools.
Suno
AI music generator
Suno's free plan refreshes up to 50 credits every day, which Suno says is enough for about 10 songs, for personal, non-commercial use.
ElevenLabs
AI voice and text-to-speech
ElevenLabs' Free plan includes 10,000 credits a month for its voice AI tools, for non-commercial use with attribution.
ChatGPT
AI assistant from OpenAI
OpenAI's Codex for Open Source program offers core maintainers of widely used open-source projects six months of ChatGPT Pro with Codex, with Codex Security access and API credits as optional extras.
Deepgram
Voice AI APIs for speech-to-text and text-to-speech
New Deepgram accounts get $200 in free credit for its speech-to-text, text-to-speech and voice agent APIs, with no credit card required and no expiry.
AssemblyAI
Speech-to-text and speech understanding API
New AssemblyAI accounts get $50 in credits for pre-recorded and real-time speech-to-text, Speech Understanding and Guardrails; the credits don't expire.
LangSmith
Observability and evals for LLM agents
LangSmith's Developer plan is $0 for one seat and includes up to 5,000 base traces a month for tracing and evaluating LLM apps.
Together AI
AI cloud for open-source models
Startups accepted to Together AI's Startup Accelerator get free platform credits (up to $30K, or up to $50K for companies that have raised over $10M), plus engineering time and go-to-market support.
Tavily
Web search API for AI agents
Tavily's free Researcher plan includes 1,000 API credits each month for its web search API, with no credit card required.
Weights & Biases
Experiment tracking and LLM evaluation
Students, professors and postdocs doing non-commercial academic research can get a free W&B Pro-level academic licence with unlimited tracked hours, 200 GB of storage and up to 100 seats.
GitHub Copilot
AI coding assistant from GitHub
Copilot Free gives any GitHub user 2,000 code completions a month plus limited chat and agent usage, with access to models such as Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5 mini.
Amazon Q Developer
AWS's AI coding assistant
Amazon Q Developer has a perpetual Free Tier for AWS Builder ID and IAM users, with a monthly allowance of agentic requests in the IDE and CLI.
Outdoo AI
AI sales roleplay and coaching for sales teams
Outdoo says its Black Friday 2026 offer is 20% off all annual Outdoo AI plans, from November 20, 2026 to January 1, 2027, with no coupon code.
PostNitro
AI carousel maker and social media scheduler
PostNitro takes 40% off its Creator+ and Team+ plans on yearly billing with code BF26A, or 16.7% off monthly billing with code BF26M, from November 1 to November 30, 2026.
Saner.AI
AI personal assistant for notes, tasks and planning
Saner.AI's Black Friday 2026 code BF26STANDARDMONTHLY takes 50% off the first two months of the Standard monthly plan; BF26STANDARDYEARLY takes 30% off the Standard annual plan.
Seedeo
AI creative platform for video, image, music and voice
Seedeo's pricing page lists its Pro annual plan at $129 for the first year (64% off twelve months at $29.90), renewing at $179.40 a year, with 1,000 early Black Friday bonus credits.
Microsoft 365 Personal, Family and Premium
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneDrive storage and Copilot for home users
Microsoft offers a one-month free trial of Microsoft 365 Personal, Family and Premium. After the trial the subscription renews automatically at the regular price unless you cancel in your Microsoft account.
Claude
AI assistant from Anthropic
Claude Max subscribers get $100 a month and Ultra subscribers $200 a month in Claude Platform API credits; Team plans get $20 per Standard seat and $100 per Premium seat, pooled up to $500 a month.
Grammarly
AI writing assistant for grammar, clarity and tone
Students who verify through SheerID can get 50% off Grammarly Pro for one subscription period.
Loom
Async video messaging and screen recording
Loom lets you try its Business + AI plan free for 14 days; if you don't pay, the workspace returns to the free Starter plan.
v0
Vercel's AI app builder
New v0 users on the Free plan get a one-time $5 credit to build with Vercel's AI app builder; existing Free users keep a $5 monthly allowance.
Replit
Build and publish apps in the browser with an AI agent
Replit's free Starter plan includes a daily Replit Agent allowance, limited monthly cloud credits and one published app, with no time limit.
Krea
AI image and video generation and editing
Krea's Free plan gives 100 compute units a day for AI image generation and editing with Krea's own models, with no credit card required.
Notion
Connected workspace for docs and projects
Teams on a professional email domain can try Notion's Business plan free for 30 days, including Notion AI, AI Meeting Notes, Research Mode, SAML SSO and private teamspaces.
Perplexity
AI answer engine
Perplexity offers Education Pro, its Pro plan at a discount for students and educators verified through SheerID, with learning-focused features.
HeyGen
AI video and voice generation
HeyGen's Turbo Free text-to-speech model, heygen-voice-1-turbo-free, can be called at no cost through November 30, 2026, with no credit balance needed. It runs on shared capacity with no availability guarantee.
Mistral AI Studio
Mistral models through an API
Mistral AI's Experiment plan lets developers try the Mistral API for free with only a verified phone number and no credit card. Requests on this plan may be used to train Mistral's models.
Lovable
AI app builder from prompts
Lovable's Free plan includes 5 build credits a day, up to 30 a month, plus monthly Cloud credits, for building apps with its AI builder at no cost.
Bolt.new
AI web app builder in the browser
Bolt.new's Free plan includes 1 million tokens a month, with a daily limit of 300,000, plus website hosting and public and private projects.
DeepL API
Machine translation API
DeepL's API Developer plan lets developers test the DeepL API for free, with a one-time total of 1,000,000 characters that does not reset.
Descript
Edit video and audio like a doc
Descript's Free plan includes 1 media hour per month and a one-time grant of 100 AI credits, with exports up to 720p.
NVIDIA Inception
NVIDIA's program for startups
NVIDIA Inception is free to join and gives incorporated startups access to cloud credits, Deep Learning Institute course codes and preferred pricing on some NVIDIA hardware.
ElevenLabs
AI voice and text-to-speech
Startups with fewer than 25 employees can apply for an ElevenLabs grant of 12 months free with 33M characters, which ElevenLabs puts at over 680 hours of Conversational AI audio.
OpenAI API
API access to OpenAI models
Startups backed by a VC in OpenAI's partner network may get free API credits, rate limit upgrades and time with OpenAI's technical team, using a referral code from their investor.
Claude
AI assistant from Anthropic
Verified K-12 educators in the US get Claude for Teachers free, with premium Claude features, teaching skills and curriculum connectors. Signing up by June 30, 2027 gives a full year of free access.
Gemini API
Google's developer API for Gemini models
Google is charging an introductory rate for Gemini 4 Argon on the Gemini API's paid tier until November 30, 2026, after which the price doubles to $4 input and $20 output per 1M tokens.
Kiro
Agentic AI IDE from AWS
AWS's Kiro startup program offers early-stage to Series A startups up to a year's worth of free Kiro Pro+. The 2026 program terms run from April 7 to December 31, 2026.
Perplexity
AI answer engine
Perplexity gives a one-time bonus of 1,000 Perplexity Computer Credits to Enterprise Pro or Enterprise Max accounts paid on perplexity.ai with a U.S. American Express card between October 1, 2026 and March 29, 2027.
Figma
Collaborative interface design
During the open beta of code layers in Figma Design, generating and editing code inside a code layer does not use AI credits through November 4; after that, code layer tasks use AI credits like other agentic AI features.
GitHub Copilot
AI coding assistant from GitHub
Teachers verified through GitHub Education can get Copilot Pro, normally $10 USD per month, at no cost.
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft's cloud computing and AI platform
Microsoft for Startups gives startups access to AI models, developer tools and up to $150,000 in Startup credits that can be used on eligible Azure services.
Notion
Connected workspace for docs and projects
New, non-paying startups can get up to 6 months of Notion's Business Plan, including Notion AI, at no cost. The length depends on whether the startup applies through a Notion partner.
Google AI Pro (Gemini)
Google's paid Gemini AI plan
Eligible U.S. college students aged 18+ can get one year of Google AI Pro at no cost, redeemable until December 31, 2026. It renews at $19.99/month unless cancelled.
Canva
Online design and visual content tool
Canva offers a 30-day free trial of Canva Pro, available once per account and once per payment method.
61 live offers from 41 providers, last updated Nov 2, 2026. Expired offers are hidden from this page, and every listing links to the provider's own page.
Yes. Free AI plans and credits come with usage limits, such as monthly credits, tokens or characters, and promotional pricing often ends on a set date. Each listing shows the limits and dates the provider states.
6 say no credit card is needed, including Pinecone, Qdrant Cloud, Deepgram, Tavily and Krea. 1 say a card is required. For the rest the provider doesn't say, so check the listing before you sign up.
10 have an end date set by the provider. The next to end: Figma (Nov 4, 2026), PostNitro (Nov 30, 2026) and HeyGen (Nov 30, 2026). Offers without an end date can still change at any time.
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