Developer Tools, Free Cloud Tiers & API Credits

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.

Get Figma Professional plan free for 2 years ($360 value) including unlimited files, team libraries, and dev mode.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Join the live AMD ACT III Hackathon to claim $100 in AMD GPU Cloud credits (or $50 Fireworks AI credits), 50,000 Evolus AI platform credits, AMD Instinct MI300X cloud access, and 1 month free DeepLearning.AI Pro.

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.

Over $65 in free cloud hosting and AI credits plus 3 free months of ElevenLabs Pro unlocked for open-source AI developers during Hacktoberfest 2026.

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.

Continuous ambient listening (phone or Apple Watch) that converts conversations into searchable memory. Integrates with Claude, Codex, Cursor via MCP.

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

Meta's worldwide virtual hackathon awards $150 in free Meta Model API credits to every accepted participant alongside entry into a $1,000,000 cash prize pool.

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

Promotional 25% discount on the Figma AI credits add-on for Pro design teams through October 27, 2026.

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.

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

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.

Joint initiative by SNB and KFUPM Dhahran Techno Valley providing up to SAR 100,000 in non-dilutive development funding, sandboxing, and enterprise banking support.

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