Agora
Realtime voice, video, conversational AI, avatar, and streaming infrastructure for interactive applications.
10K minutes/mo + 300 minutes
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Free AI credits
AI providers offering free monetary, token, or platform credits.
65 providers · source-backed records with verification dates
AI Studios (DeepBrain)
Video creation platform using AI avatars, dubbing and translation; provides web studio and limited API.
3 videos/mo + 16 credits
Active · verified 2026-07-17
AI21 Labs
Provider of large language models (e.g., Jurassic, Jamba) offering API access and pre-trained models.
$10 credit for 3 months
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Anthropic (Claude)
LLM-based conversational AI models (Claude family) with API access for text generation and reasoning tasks.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Anyscale
Platform built on Ray offering scalable AI infrastructure and compute for training and inference.
$100 credit
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Apify
Apify provides web data extraction, crawling, browser automation, and agent tooling.
$5 credit/mo
Active · verified 2026-07-17
AssemblyAI
Speech recognition API that provides transcription, summarization and audio intelligence services with generous free usage.
$50 credit
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
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Baseten
Serverless GPU platform for deploying and scaling AI models with a usage-based pricing model.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Beam Cloud
Serverless GPU cloud for deploying AI inference, task queues and sandboxes with per-second billing.
$30 credit/mo
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Bluejay
Bluejay provides voice/chat agent simulation, evaluation, and observability.
$25 credit
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Braintrust
Braintrust provides AI gateway, observability, evaluation, and prompt tooling.
$10 credit/mo + 1 GB/mo
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
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Cartesia
Cartesia provides speech, voice, and voice agents.
$1 credit/mo + 20K credits/mo
Active · verified 2026-09-19
Cerebras
Provider of large-scale AI hardware and cloud inference services; offers Cerebras Model Zoo accessible via API.
$5 credit for 30 days
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Cloudinary
Cloudinary provides image/video APIs, transformation, optimization, and delivery.
25 credits/mo
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Confident AI / DeepEval
Confident AI / DeepEval provides LLM evaluation/testing and observability.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
D-ID
Generative AI platform for creating digital humans and live agents from images and text.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Deepgram
Offers speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice agent and audio intelligence APIs with high accuracy and low latency.
$200 credit
Active · verified 2026-09-19
DeepL API Developer
DeepL API Developer provides translation APIs using the new one-time 1M-character Developer allowance
1.0M characters
Active · verified 2026-07-17
E2B
E2B provides code execution and cloud sandboxes for AI agents.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
ElevenLabs
Generative voice platform offering high-quality text-to-speech, speech-to-speech and voice cloning in many languages.
10K credits/mo
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Exa
Exa provides AI search, retrieval, crawling, and research.
$10 credit/mo + $20 credit
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Extend
Extend provides document AI/OCR and extraction.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Firecrawl
Firecrawl provides web scraping, crawling, search, and AI data ingestion.
1K credits/mo
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Fireworks AI
LLM inference platform offering serverless access to open-source models with pay-as-you-go pricing.
$1 credits
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Future AGI
Future AGI provides agent evaluation, simulation, observability, gateway, and guardrails.
2K credits/mo + 100K requests/mo
Active · verified 2026-07-17
GMI Cloud
GPU cloud service focusing on affordable AI inference; offers free access to select LLM endpoints.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Google AI Studio (Gemini)
Gemini models accessible through Google AI Studio offer text and multimodal generation; integrates with Vertex AI for production.
Free tier
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
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Gradium
Gradium provides TTS, STT, and speech translation.
45K credits/mo
Active · verified 2026-09-19
Hugging Face
Hosts a large catalog of AI models and offers a unified Inference API and hub for model sharing and deployment.
$0.1 credits
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Hyperbrowser
Hyperbrowser provides browser agents and web automation.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Jina AI
Jina AI provides embeddings, search, reranking, multimodal, and document AI.
10.0M tokens
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Kling AI
Kling AI is a text-to-video platform with free access and optional referral bonuses; current recurring credit terms are not publicly established.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
LiveKit
LiveKit provides open-source and cloud infrastructure for real-time voice and video agents.
1K agent session minutes/mo + $2.5 credits
Active · verified 2026-07-17
LlamaCloud / LlamaParse
Hosted document parsing, agentic OCR, structured extraction, and document workflow APIs from LlamaIndex.
10K credits/mo
Active · verified 2026-07-19
Microsoft Azure Founders Hub
Program supporting startups with Azure credits, including access to Azure OpenAI services and other AI tools.
$1K credit
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Mistral AI (Experiment plan)
French LLM provider Mistral AI offers an experimental plan for developers to try its LLMs with rate-limited free usage.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-19
Modal
Serverless platform for running Python code and ML workloads on GPUs without managing infrastructure.
$30 credit/mo
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Nanonets
Nanonets provides document AI, OCR/data extraction, and workflow automation.
$50 credit
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Nebius AI
European AI cloud platform offering generative AI models and compute resources via a pay-as-you-go model.
$1 credit for 30 days
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Nebius AI Startup Program
Startup program offering credits and discounts to AI startups across different tiers.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
NLP Cloud
Cloud API offering NLP models for summarization, translation, sentiment analysis and text generation.
$15 credit
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Novita AI
Generative AI platform providing image and video generation APIs.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
NVIDIA NIM
NVIDIA's generative AI microservices platform providing hosted models via API for text and speech tasks.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
OpenAI
Provides GPT family of language models, embeddings, image generation (DALL-E) and speech models via APIs.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Photoroom API
Photoroom API provides image editing/background removal as a sandbox allowance.
1K calls/mo + 10 calls
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Pictory
Tool for turning text or long-form video into short, shareable videos with automatic captioning and summarization.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Pinecone
Managed vector database enabling similarity search and retrieval-augmented generation at scale.
$300 credit for 21 days
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Qdrant
Open-source vector database with a managed cloud offering for scalable embeddings and search.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Roark
Roark provides voice-agent simulation/evaluation.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Roboflow
Roboflow provides computer vision, labeling, training, workflows, and hosted inference.
15 credits/mo
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Runpod
Cloud platform providing on-demand GPUs, serverless compute and multi-node clusters for AI workloads.
$1K credit
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Scaleway Generative APIs
European cloud provider offering generative API endpoints for open-source models with generous free tier.
1.0M tokens + 60 minutes
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Speechmatics
Speechmatics provides speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice agents.
$100 credit
Active · verified 2026-09-19
Stability AI Developer Platform
API platform for image, audio and 3D generation models including Stable Diffusion and Stable Audio.
25 credits
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Tavily
Tavily provides AI search, web extraction, crawling, and research.
1K credits/mo
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Together AI (Startup Accelerator)
Together AI offers a selected startup accelerator with conditional cloud platform credits.
Up to $50K credit
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Unstructured
Unstructured provides document AI, parsing, OCR, chunking, enrichment, embeddings, and data ingestion.
10K pages
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Upstage (Solar)
Korean AI company providing Solar LLM and related APIs for text generation and chat.
$10 credit
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Vapi
Vapi provides pay-as-you-go voice-agent APIs with included calling minutes and a separate conditional startup program.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Vercel AI Gateway
API gateway for LLMs enabling request routing and caching across multiple model providers, integrated with the Vercel platform.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
Voyage AI
Voyage AI provides embeddings, multimodal, search, and reranking.
Free tier
Active · verified 2026-07-17
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