AI tool deals and free credits

Perch AI's free Starter plan includes 20,000 PT (~$20) in monthly usage allowance with no credit card required, available across Web, Desktop, and CLI.

InferX has made its DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 Basic endpoint free, with input, output and cached input all billed at $0. Sign up, create an API key, and call it through an OpenAI-compatible API.

Freebuff is an ad-supported free coding agent. Free accounts need no card and get daily hours you can spend on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: up to about 10 hours a day in full-access regions such as the US and EU, or 4 to 5 hours elsewhere and over a VPN. The allowance resets every day at local midnight.

River AI just launched inference for open-weight models, and every new account gets $25 in free credits. Use them on DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3 Flash, and more through an OpenAI-compatible API, with about 1M tokens of context. At $0.12 per 1M input tokens, that's roughly 200M input tokens.

DeepSeek Harness is giving out 6 RMB in free credit again. Existing DeepSeek users, and new users who sign up with a mainland China (+86) number, get it the first time they sign in during the promotion, with no top-up needed. Credits are limited and expire 7 days after they arrive.

After the DeepSeek API outage on Oct 15, 2026 (08:11–13:04 Beijing time), DeepSeek is returning gift credit equal to your account spend from Oct 8–14. Credit lands automatically, and later API charges draw from the gift balance first.

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is free on OpenCode Zen for a limited time with 200K context

OpenCode Zen added a free version of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Input, output, and cached reads cost nothing for a limited time. The free version has about 200K tokens of context and up to about 32K output tokens, supports image input and tool calls, and its provider does not store or train on your requests. No end date has been announced.

OpenDesign doubled DeepSeek V4.1 Flash credits on every paid plan. Go is $8 for your first month on a new monthly subscription, then $10 a month, and includes up to $120 a month of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash usage plus an API key you can use in OpenCode and other tools.

Intern-InternLM InkStone's preview Token Plan gives registered users monthly free credits for models such as DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, MiniMax, and Qwen. Intern-S2, Atria-Dawn-Preview, and Agents-A1 are temporarily free; the console reports that one Ink Point can cover up to about 50 million tokens for DeepSeek-V4-Flash.

Huawei Cloud CodeArts is offering all eligible users 10 million tokens per day for its coding agent. The tokens reset at 24:00 each day and can be used with DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, and other listed models in the IDE, plugins, desktop, web, or mini-program experience.

Verdent's Free mode lets you use GLM-5.3-Flash and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash without a subscription. The built-in models do not consume credits, but free accounts still have five-hour and weekly usage limits. Download the client and sign up to try them.

Go $10/mo · DeepSeek V4.1 Flash allowance $100/mo (Go Plus $200)

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OpenCode Go: $100 monthly allowance for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

OpenCode Go subscribers now get $100 of monthly usage for DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, up from $80, and Go Plus subscribers get $200. If you already subscribe, just pick the model and the higher allowance applies.