🎁 Trials (no card when possible) · no card · provisional — added recently, two weeks of probes still to pass · live — last verified by a probe on 2026-09-17 · standardcompute.com · back to the whole list
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
The page this row is verified against names no free model, so the column stays empty; callable ids, where the row has them, are under Connect.
“Eligible new accounts receive $0.25 of trial compute after activation. This is a finite platform compute allowance. It is not a recurring free tier, a fixed token count, or a value measured at another provider’s prices” — the free-trial page, “Updated September 5, 2026”, read here 2026-09-16; the pricing FAQ adds “with no card required”. It does not refill, no card is asked for, and it is discretionary: “Access is subject to eligibility and availability”, with a support address for accounts whose dashboard does not offer it. What the quarter buys is on no page — a flat-rate router publishes no per-token price, and the only conversion the site offers is its own marketing arithmetic, a $20 monthly compute budget on the paid Starter plan that its pricing table says does the work of up to $60 a month of direct API use. The vendor sets the expectation itself: “Start with one small request that lets you check the connection and response”, while “a longer coding-quality comparison may need a paid allowance”. It is the smallest offer on this list — a connection test, not a working allowance
https://api.stdcmpt.com/v1STANDARDCOMPUTE_API_KEY — get one at https://standardcompute.com/signupANTHROPIC_BASE_URL): https://api.stdcmpt.comanthropic/claude-standardcompute, StandardCompute$0.25 of trial compute, no card required2026-09-10 — Added to the list: 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 isGenerated from registry.yaml on 2026-09-18 and re-verified twice a week; the full list, the Atom feed and the machinery are at https://github.com/mvalentsev/awesome-free-ai-coding.