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- Free allowance
- The monthly credits table now reads: "Free Users | None" and "PRO Users | $2.00", with the note that free users can only use Inference Providers "by purchasing credits, or by upgrading to PRO".
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- documented2 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | The monthly credits table now reads: "Free Users | None" and "PRO Users | $2.00", with the note that free users can only use Inference Providers "by purchasing credits, or by upgrading to PRO". unit none; metered on wall-clock; none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Binding | none nothing binds because nothing is granted: the free lane on Inference Providers is now zero credits a month |
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| Identity | email not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | The USD 2 a month that PRO buys is the cheapest documented way to exceed the 5-minute ZeroGPU day, so a single PRO subscription is the paid upgrade path out of both free limits. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | A refutation of the figure that circulated through 2025, where a free account received a small monthly inference credit. The free lane is now explicitly zero and the monthly credit starts at PRO. |
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Evidence 2
More fields 1
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}
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}Unknown values 7
$.egress.metered egress metering was not published$.egress.terms a source was read and is silent on this field$.interface the access interface was not established$.per_object_cap.stated the field does not apply to this kind of offer$.reliability_note nothing of this kind was observed$.retention.stated the field does not apply to this kind of offer$.tooling a source was read and is silent on this field