Development Tools Deals & Free Tiers

Free daily access to Claude 3.5 Sonnet on web/mobile plus $5 in free API evaluation credits for developers.

Free 2-week Pro trial with Claude 3.5 Sonnet + generous permanent free tier with 2,000 completions/month.

Free GitHub Pro and $200,000+ worth of developer tools, cloud credits, and domains for students.

$200 in free cloud hosting credits for students to deploy Droplets, Kubernetes, managed databases, and apps.

Two free dedicated PostgreSQL projects, 500MB database, 1GB file storage, and 50,000 monthly active users.

100% Free access to all JetBrains desktop IDEs including IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PyCharm Pro, and WebStorm.

Free enterprise-grade DDoS mitigation, global CDN, DNS management, and 100K serverless Edge Workers daily.

Deploy unlimited Next.js, React, and static sites with global edge CDN and automatic SSL certificates.

Send 3,000 transactional emails per month for free with modern React Email templates and fast REST API.

Expanded startup package offering up to $7,000 in direct Claude credits (1 yr Claude Team + $1,000 API credits) plus a $45,000 partner perks stack.

Thinkr changed its free tier on September 16 from a non-refilling trial-like allowance into a permanent monthly plan with three full 11-pass critiques every month.

Promptic opened to everyone on September 25 with a €0 developer tier that includes one AI application and 200K Promptic credits per month.

Product Hunt launch promo cuts NOAN Starter from $99/month to $49.50/month for the first three months, saving $148.50 total.

Completely open-source MIT-licensed multi-agent autonomous workspace running local models offline via Ollama and LM Studio.

Google took Gemini 4 Argon to general availability with a 50% introductory API discount ($2/M input, $10/M output) and 95% off context caching through November 30, 2026.

Web scraping API for AI agents and LLMs. Returns clean, structured HTML/text from any URL. Free tier includes 1,000 API credits/month with no credit card required.

Synap’s Starter launch price is $19/month instead of the listed $49/month, a $30 monthly saving of about 61%.

OrioleDB projects can now be created on paid plans with compute resizing, disk resizing, pause/restore, read replicas, and scheduled backups — billed same as standard Postgres.

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology program offering 20 Saudi digital startup founders global immersion and investment tracks.

Deploy isolated per-branch preview environments at zero cost with uncompressed bundle sizes expanded to 64 MiB on free plans.

Autonomous AI agents that get their own computers, accounts, and budgets. $20 free trial balance to test actual usage costs before committing.

VibeDefend’s September 28 Product Hunt launch carries a 50% first-month promotion; the launch thread publishes code WELCOME50.

OpenAI offers $50 in free, non-expiring API credits for early-stage and bootstrapped startups through Series A, with no credit card required upfront.

The first 250 Product Hunt users can get $50 off a first $100 prepaid model-credit top-up using HOPSCOTCH50OFF.

ruOS launched a 100% free Lite browser desktop that launches in seconds with no signup, featuring integrated VS Code for the Web.

Free AI-native WebKit browser for macOS that transforms any active web page into structured context for Claude Code and Codex agents.

xAI launched the unified X Subscription ladder featuring a permanent $0 Free tier with daily Grok access and a starter allowance for Cursor coding agents.

Statable launched September 28 with permanent free analytics for qualifying .edu, .github.io, and .gitlab.io sites, with no pageview cap.

Reads Claude Code transcripts from ~/.claude/projects and prints the day back as a receipt grouped by project. Free tier is permanent — today's receipt stays free forever.

Permanently free, MIT-licensed, browser-based screenshot beautifier. Entirely client-side with no account required.

Permanent free tier for Aion Labs LLM API offering 15 requests/min and 20,000 tokens/min for developers with no credit card required.

Non-dilutive financial stipends, starter grants, and engineering mentorship for open-source protocol developers.

Gamified, browser-based coding education platform providing free daily interactive lessons, real compiler environments, and AI tutoring.

Cloudflare opened former enterprise capabilities including Logpush, Transformers, and Custom Dashboards to all self-serve and free plan tiers.

Synap’s new promotional Trial plan reduces its listed $10/month entry tier to $0 and includes 12,500 credits every month with no card required.

Figma launched Code Layers in open beta, completely waiving AI-credit consumption for code generation and canvas editing on all paid and education seats through November 4, 2026.