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Free plan $0 forever
Freestyle free plan gives AI agents 200 vCPU-hours of cloud VMs every month
Freestyle offers cloud Linux VMs built for AI agents. The Free plan stays at $0 forever and you can start without a card. Each month includes 200 vCPU-hours, 400 GiB memory-hours, 60,000 GiB storage-hours, and 50 GB of data transfer, with up to 10 concurrent VMs and a per-VM max of 4 vCPU / 8 GiB / 32 GB disk.
Free ($0 input and output)
Free StepFun Step 5 Preview in Hermes Agent via Nous Portal
StepFun put the free version of Step 5 Preview on Nous Research's Nous Portal. In Hermes Agent, pick stepfun/step-5-preview:free and both input and output cost $0. It's StepFun's flagship agentic model for software engineering and finance, with 600B total parameters and a 1M-token context window.
Free for one week
Kilo Code offers StepFun Step 5 Preview free for one week
Kilo Code just added Step 5 Preview as a free model (stepfun/step-5-preview-free), with $0 input and output. StepFun is running a one-week free window starting October 8, expected to end around October 15. Sign in to Kilo to pick this 1M-context flagship model in VS Code, JetBrains, or the CLI.
Free for one week
OpenCode Zen offers StepFun Step 5 Preview free for one week
OpenCode Zen just added Step 5 Preview Free, billed at $0 for input, output, and cached reads. StepFun is running a one-week free window starting October 8, expected to end around October 15. The model has a 1M-token context window, reads images and video, and supports tool calls.
Limited-time free (usage quota applies)
Cline offers StepFun Step 5 Preview free for a limited time via cline-free
With a Cline account, set the provider to Cline and pick the FREE-tagged Step 5 Preview (model ID cline-free/step-5-preview). It is StepFun's flagship agentic model with 600B total / 27B active parameters and a 1M-token context window, offered as a rotating free promotion with a usage quota in the IDE extension and CLI only.
$250 cloud sandbox credit (normally $25)
Docker Sandboxes gives new signups $250 in cloud sandbox credit through October 31
New Docker Agentic Platform signups get a one-time $250 cloud sandbox compute credit instead of the usual $25. Sign up between September 22 and October 31, 2026 to qualify. A credit card is required, but it's only charged for usage beyond the credit, and the credit lasts six months after you claim it.
GMI Cloud makes Qwen 3.8 Max, Qwen 3.8 Flash and Wan 3.0 free for a limited time if your balance is at least $10
GMI Cloud and Alibaba made Qwen 3.8 Max, Qwen 3.8 Flash and the Wan 3.0 video model free for developers. On October 7, GMI extended the window by 7 more days, which runs it to around October 14. You need at least $10 in your GMI balance, and that $10 is not spent, so you can use it on other models later.
$100 or $200 a month on Max, up to $500 on Team
Claude Max now includes $100 to $200 in monthly API credits, and Team plans get up to $500
Claude Max and Team subscriptions now come with monthly API credits for the Claude Platform. Max 5x gets $100 a month, Max 20x gets $200, and Team plans get up to $500 a month pooled across seats. Link a Console organization from your billing settings on claude.ai and the credits arrive every month, usable on any Claude model with no card required.
Free
Glyph Cluster stealth reasoning model free on Vercel AI Gateway for Pro and Enterprise teams
Glyph Cluster, a new stealth reasoning model on Vercel AI Gateway, is free during its stealth period. Vercel Pro and Enterprise teams with purchased AI Gateway credits can call stealth/glyph-cluster now. It has a 256K context window and is built for coding, debugging, and long-document analysis, and it works in Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents.
Up to $200 in Free Tier credits for new customers
New AWS accounts can sign up with GitHub or Google, mostly with no credit card, and get up to $200 in credits
AWS has a new sign-up flow that lets new customers create an account with GitHub, Google, Apple, or Amazon credentials, and most people do not need a credit card. You get $100 in Free Tier credits at sign-up and can earn up to $100 more by finishing five starter activities such as trying a model in the Amazon Bedrock playground, for up to $200 over six months.
Free
OpenCode Zen adds Exo Free, a reasoning model with ~1M context at $0
OpenCode Zen just added Exo Free, a reasoning model billed at $0 for input and output, with about a million tokens of context, image input, and tool use. It is free for a limited time with no end date announced yet, and requests during the free period may be used to improve the model.
Claude Startups pauses its free year of Claude Team and $1,000 API credit offers
Demand for the Claude Startups program far outran expectations, so on October 9, 2026, Anthropic paused the free year of Claude Team and the $1,000 API credit. Companies that already claimed them keep them, and unclaimed applications, including approved ones, are being re-reviewed.