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- Free allowance
- None stated: teams use prepaid credits and API requests stop at a zero balance; promotional credits come from promo codes and 'may be restricted to a specific product, model, or GPU'
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaprepaid credits only: $10 minimum purchase to continue; requests stop when the balance reaches $0
- Evidence
- documented6 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | none stated: teams use prepaid credits and API requests stop at a zero balance; promotional credits come from promo codes and 'may be restricted to a specific product, model, or GPU' unit none; metered on none; whether a new account receives a promotional credit at sign-up is unverified: behind a sign-up |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - volume-quota (binding) prepaid credits only: $10 minimum purchase to continue; requests stop when the balance reaches $0 source
- request-rate tiered by lifetime spend; adding credits unlocks higher Model APIs rate limits; the per-tier numbers are not in the page text read source
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| Binding | volume-quota a prepaid balance is the only way to call the API once any promo credit is gone |
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| Identity | card sign-up is an account at Friendli Suite; the pages read state no card requirement at sign-up, but using the API needs purchased credits ($10 minimum) paid by credit or debit card (prepaid cards excluded), ACH on request, or AWS Marketplace |
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| Egress | not published |
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| Interface | rest |
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| Tooling | OpenAI-compatible client; a personal API key is created in Friendli Suite |
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| Composes with | part of the text of Free tier, above |
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| Reliability | not measured |
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| Notes | no free allowance is stated on the pages read; an account-only promo credit is unverified |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 6
Unknown values 3
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- retention stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer