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Free allowance
A new team starts with no credits: 'Runs and QA reviews are paid from your team's credit balance, and a new team starts with none.' The cited page https://www.hud.ai/ (read 2026-10-30) states no amount
Verdict
caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost
free tier
Identity
email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
Binding limit
write-gatedplans are Pay as you go, from credits bought with a card, and Pro at USD 50 a month, which adds USD 50 of credits each paid month; on Pay as you go work starts only while the credit balance is above zero
Evidence
reported11 sources; a third party said so
Freshness
stale on 2026-11-19checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-11-19
Free tiera new team starts with no credits: 'Runs and QA reviews are paid from your team's credit balance, and a new team starts with none.' The cited page https://www.hud.ai/ (read 2026-10-30) states no amount
unit credits; metered on wall-clock; A HUD guide page still states 'Cloud starts at $0.25+/environment hour with $10 in free credits.' and $100 for an academic .edu email; the quickstart says a new team starts with none, so whether a grant is applied at sign-up is unverified: only an account shows the balance.
Pricenone stated
Limits
  • write-gated (binding) plans are Pay as you go, from credits bought with a card, and Pro at USD 50 a month, which adds USD 50 of credits each paid month; on Pay as you go work starts only while the credit balance is above zero source
Identityemail (placeholder) unverified: the sign-in methods are not shown on the public pages. The home page says 'No credit card required.' to create a first environment, while hosted runs draw prepaid credits that are bought with a card
Egressnot stated
Per-object capnot stated
Retentionnot stated
Interfacerest, cli REST API at https://api.hud.ai/v2, a CLI and an SDK
Toolingnot stated
Reliabilityno reliability event recorded
NotesThe first read was refused with 429; the page was reached through the firecrawl provider. It carries no price and no free credit, so the USD 10 the record held is not established here.
Evidence notereported the home page, the platform quickstart, the billing documentation and a guide page were read on 2026-10-30: the quickstart says a new team starts with no credits, a guide page still advertises USD 10 in free credits, and the billing documentation prices Pay as you go and Pro
Parsed numbers
  • has-free-tier 1
Evidence 11
datesourcewhat it proved
2026-10-02www.hud.ai/not published
2026-10-22www.hud.ai/'Start from a community environment, build your own with the SDK, or import existing tasks from Harbor' and 'pip install hud'; the page publishes no plan, price or free tier, and a 429 on the first read was cleared by the firecrawl route
2026-10-30docs.hud.ai/platform/quickstarta new team has no credits; runs are paid from the credit balance
2026-10-30docs.hud.ai/platform/billingusage is drawn from prepaid credits denominated in US dollars
2026-10-30www.hud.ai/guides/top-5-reinforcement-learning-environmentsa HUD guide page advertises USD 10 in free credits for cloud runs
2026-10-30www.hud.ai/guides/top-5-reinforcement-learning-environmentsthe guide page advertises USD 100 in credits for an academic .edu email
2026-10-30www.hud.ai/creating a first environment needs no card
2026-10-30docs.hud.ai/platform/billingcredits are bought with a card
2026-10-30docs.hud.ai/platform/billingthe Pro plan is USD 50 a month and adds USD 50 of credits each paid month
2026-11-03docs.hud.ai/platform/rest-api.mdHUD has a REST API
2026-11-03docs.hud.ai/platform/rest-api.mdHUD has a CLI and an SDK
More fields 4
keep rate basisno field in the source
billing modelunclassified
session cap{"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "the page states no clock"}
free tier kindone-time-credit
Unknown values 8
  • chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • egress metered: egress metering was not published
  • egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • per object cap stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
  • retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
  • retention stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
  • tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field