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Standard Compute free tier

🎁 Trials (no card when possible) · no card · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-11-01 · standardcompute.com · back to the whole list

What you get

A one-time $0.25 of smart-routed compute on a flat-rate agent gateway, no card — a real key on both wires, OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions and an Anthropic Messages base Claude Code takes as it is

Free models

The free offer is a budget for model usage across the catalog. See Limits for its conditions and Connect for API details, where available.

Limits, in the vendor’s words

Platform compute: $0.25 once per account

A finite platform-compute trial, not a recurring budget or fixed token count. No card is required, but eligibility and availability are discretionary; contact support if activation offers no grant. No expiry or per-token conversion is published. The vendor recommends a small connection test and warns that a longer coding comparison may need paid allowance.

Where it is offered

The vendor names no country it keeps the offer from (source, read 2026-09-26).

What happens to what you send

What you send is not used to train models. In the vendor’s words: “Your prompts are never used for training. By us, or by any provider we route to.” (source).

Connect

Base URL: https://api.stdcmpt.com/v1
Key: STANDARDCOMPUTE_API_KEY — get one at https://standardcompute.com/signup
Anthropic-format base (Claude Code’s ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL): https://api.stdcmpt.com
Callable ids: anthropic/claude-standardcompute, StandardCompute
Note: one key, two wires: https://api.stdcmpt.com/v1 for OpenAI-shaped clients and https://api.stdcmpt.com for Claude Code — “Claude Code uses https://api.stdcmpt.com without /v1”. /v1/models is keyless and lists the pool the router picks from, 40 unpriced ids on 2026-09-07 with Claude, GPT and Grok among them; requests are smart-routed across it unless a call pins one id. The two ids here are the router’s own

Try it from your terminal with your key in STANDARDCOMPUTE_API_KEY — it goes from your machine to the vendor and nowhere else:

curl -s https://api.stdcmpt.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STANDARDCOMPUTE_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"model":"anthropic/claude-standardcompute","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"2+2? MAKE NO MISTAKES."}]}'

Evidence

Probe: the page at https://standardcompute.com/free-trial, anchored on $0.25 of trial compute, no card required
Source: https://standardcompute.com/free-trial
Source: https://standardcompute.com/pricing
Source: https://standardcompute.com/integrations/claude-code

History

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2026-09-07 — Added: A one-time $0.25 of smart-routed compute on a flat-rate agent gateway, no card — a real key on both wires, OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions and an Anthropic Messages base Claude Code takes as it is

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