Free AI credits for students and builders.
API free tiers, cloud credits and GPU credits. 10 are open, and the ones with no free credit are crossed out so you don’t go looking. Checked on 16 October 2026.
16 items
| Provider | What’s free | Who can get it | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Studio and Gemini API free tier API | Free tier with rate limits on selected Gemini models | Anyone with a Google account UK: Fine for prototyping. Google's terms only let you use paid services in apps offered to users in the UK, EEA or Switzerland | Changed |
| Groq free plan API | Free plan with per-model limits on requests and tokens a minute and a day | Anyone UK: Available | Open |
| Mistral Free mode API | Free mode is the default for new accounts, with limited access to Vibe, Studio and the API | Anyone UK: Available | Open |
| OpenRouter free models API | Model IDs ending in :free cost nothing, with per-minute and daily request caps | Anyone UK: Available | Open |
| Cloudflare Workers AI API | 10,000 Neurons a day free, on the free and paid Workers plans | Anyone with a Cloudflare account UK: Available | Open |
| OpenAI API API | No free credits on the rate limits page. The Free tier is a usage cap ($100 a month) in allowed countries | Anyone UK: UK isn't confirmed on this page | Closed |
| Anthropic API API | No free API tier; the lowest usage tier has a $500 monthly spend cap | Anyone UK: Available as a paid API | Closed |
| GitHub Models API | Retired. The playground, model catalog, inference API and BYOK stopped on 30 July 2026 | Nobody UK: Closed | Closed |
| Azure for Students Cloud | USD100 credit plus free monthly amounts of popular services. No card needed | Full-time university students UK: Available | Open |
| AWS Free Tier Cloud | $100 in credits when you sign up, plus up to $100 more for trying services, over 6 months | New AWS customers UK: Available | Open |
| AWS Educate Cloud | Free cloud and AI learning paths with hands-on labs, no AWS account needed | Anyone, at any stage of education UK: Available | Open |
| Google Cloud free trial Cloud | $300 credit for new customers, plus Always Free monthly usage of products like Compute Engine and BigQuery | New Google Cloud customers UK: Available | Open |
| Modal Starter GPU | $30 of free compute credit every month on the $0 Starter plan | Anyone UK: Available | Open |
| Hugging Face inference credits GPU | Free accounts get no monthly inference credits. PRO accounts get $2 a month | PRO, Team and Enterprise UK: Available | Changed |
| Replicate GPU | Pay as you go. The pricing page lists no free credit | Anyone UK: Available as a paid service | Closed |
| TinyFish student credits API | $35 in your wallet at signup, with an eligible academic email address | Currently enrolled students worldwide UK: UK eligible (.ac.uk is listed as a supported academic suffix) | Open |