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DeepSeek Platform

🎁 Trials (no card when possible) · no card · archived — delisted on 2026-07-27: the 5M-token signup grant was only ever reported by third parties, and DeepSeek’s own pricing page prices every model and names no free grant · platform.deepseek.com · back to the whole list

What it offered

Official DeepSeek API; every new account gets a one-time free token grant, no card required

Free models it listed

deepseek-chat, deepseek-reasoner

Limits, in the vendor’s words

5M free tokens on signup (~30-day validity), then pay-as-you-go; no perpetually free models

Evidence

• Probe: the page at https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/, anchored on deepseek-chat
• Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/
• Source: https://pricepertoken.com/endpoints/deepseek/free

History

• 2026-07-27 — Delisted: the 5M-token signup grant was only ever reported by third parties, and DeepSeek’s own pricing page prices every model and names no free grant
• 2026-07-22 — Added to the list: Official DeepSeek API; every new account gets a one-time free token grant, no card required

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Generated 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.

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