Free Search AI tiers and credits

Compare source-backed free offers from AI providers in Search. Records show available allowance details, conditions, official evidence, and review dates.

20 providers · source-backed records with verification dates

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Anthropic (Claude)

LLM-based conversational AI models (Claude family) with API access for text generation and reasoning tasks.

Free tier

Inference RAG Search

Active · verified 2026-07-17

AWS Activate / Amazon Bedrock

AWS program providing startups with credits and technical support; includes Amazon Bedrock generative AI services.

Up to $200K credit

Infrastructure RAG Search Hosting

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Brave Search API

Brave Search API provides AI/web search and grounded answers.

$5 credit/mo

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Browserbase

Browserbase provides browser agents, web search/fetch, agent runtime, and model gateway.

Free tier

Search Research Inference Agents

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Cohere

Provides generative language models, embeddings, and reranking services via API with evaluation and production keys.

1K requests/mo

Inference Embeddings RAG Search

Active · verified 2026-07-19

Exa

Exa provides AI search, retrieval, crawling, and research.

$10 credit/mo + $20 credit

Search Research Agents

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Firecrawl

Firecrawl provides web scraping, crawling, search, and AI data ingestion.

1K credits/mo

Document AI Search Research

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Google Cloud AI Startup Program

Google Cloud startup program offering free credits and support, including generative AI and Vertex AI services.

Up to $350K credit

Infrastructure RAG Search Hosting

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Jina AI

Jina AI provides embeddings, search, reranking, multimodal, and document AI.

10.0M tokens

Document AI Search Embeddings RAG

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Mem0

Mem0 provides agent memory and personalization.

10K requests/mo + 1K requests/mo

Search RAG Agents

Active · verified 2026-07-17

Milvus (Zilliz Cloud)

Open-source vector database with cloud service (Zilliz Cloud) for high-scale retrieval and similarity search.

5 GB

Vector DB RAG Embeddings Search

Active · verified 2026-07-17

OCR.space

OCR.space provides OCR/document conversion.

25K requests/mo

Document AI Search

Active · verified 2026-07-17

OpenRouter is a unified API platform that provides developers with access to a wide variety of large language models from multiple providers through a standardized interface, simplifying integration and optimizing model usage.

50 requests/day

Inference RAG Search Hosting

Active · verified 2026-07-17