🎁 Trials (no card when possible) · card required · archived — delisted on 2026-09-16: its only free offer was $5 of credit granted after a verified payment method is added, expiring in 30 days — a one-off credit behind a card, which CONTRIBUTING does not admit · cerebras.ai · back to the whole list
Very fast inference; $5 in trial credits that expire in 30 days, card required before the API answers at all
gpt-oss, qwen3.8
Cerebras’ own docs: “New accounts receive $5 in free credits after adding a verified payment method”, credits “expire 30 days after they’re granted”, and “If you skip adding a payment method at sign-up, Playground and API access remain inactive until you do”. Asked “Is there a permanently free tier?” the same page answers “No”. Free Trial rate limits are per model and the same on both the public catalog now lists — 5 RPM, 30K uncached TPM, 90K total TPM, 1M TPH, 1M TPD each (read 2026-09-03), the two TPM figures being the dual bucket the page describes. That catalog has turned over twice: GLM 4.7 was deprecated on 2026-08-17 exactly as it announced, and Gemma 4 31B left between the 09:55 UTC probe on 2026-09-03, which still found it named, and a re-read eleven hours later — replaced by Qwen 3.8 27B, the one model here that reads images, 2 per request on this tier. The marketing pricing page still promises the credits “after making an account” and mentions no card — that was the old API tier, which accounts opened before the change kept until 2026-08-17 and which is now gone
after adding a verified payment method, credits expire 30 days after2026-09-17 — Delisted: its only free offer was $5 of credit granted after a verified payment method is added, expiring in 30 days — a one-off credit behind a card, which CONTRIBUTING does not admit2026-09-03 — Free models changed: added qwen3.8; dropped gemma-42026-08-20 — Free models changed: dropped glm-4.72026-08-17 — Free models changed: added gemma-4, glm-4.7, gpt-oss; dropped qwen32026-07-19 — Added to the list: Very fast inference, free tierGenerated from registry.yaml on 2026-09-18. No probe reads this row any more — it left the list for good unless a reviewer brings it back; the full list, the Atom feed and the machinery are at https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding.