100% Free Tiers, Trials & Software Grants

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

Get Notion Plus plan for 100% free ($120/year value) with unlimited page blocks and 100 guest invites.

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.

Protect all your passwords, passkeys, and credit cards with 100% free 1Password membership for verified students.

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

Universal Audio launched LUNA 3.0 on September 15 with LUNA Free, a full-featured DAW for macOS and Windows that is free forever with no credit card, watermark or time limit.

Soneam expanded its permanent Free plan on September 13–14 with 5 GB of storage, unlimited projects and up to three versions of every audio track.

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.

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.

Canva expanded its free Education tier with the curriculum-mapped Learn Grid and launched email-less student accounts globally.

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

Smith.ai launched a permanent $0 AI Receptionist plan on September 15 with 25 answered calls every billing cycle plus testing and simulation allowances.

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.

Integrated directly into ChatGPT and Claude. Say 'FALCON, verify that' inside your AI conversation to get statement-level verdicts on hallucinated claims.

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.

Bleetz Network launched September 25 and is free while in beta, letting startup agents match with and pitch a database of several thousand VC funds.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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