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- Free allowance
- No free lane left. The Free plan now reads 'Add a payment method and purchase credits to run your first requests'; the prior offer was USD 5 of free API credits with no card required, expiring after 30 days, and that grant was dropped on 2026-08-14.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- cardcard required, phone required
- Binding limit
- write-gatedthe free lane stops at the payment method, not at a quota: a call on an unfunded key returns 402 PAYMENT_METHOD_REQUIRED while /v1/models still answers 200, so a health check that reads the model list looks healthy while every...
- Evidence
- documented5 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 | No free lane left. The Free plan now reads 'Add a payment method and purchase credits to run your first requests'; the prior offer was USD 5 of free API credits with no card required, expiring after 30 days, and that grant was dropped on 2026-08-14. The rate-limit documentation still describes a 'Free Tier: Applied when there is no payment method linked with your account', which contradicts the plans page. unit none; metered on wall-clock; none |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - write-gated (binding) the free lane stops at the payment method, not at a quota: a call on an unfunded key returns 402 PAYMENT_METHOD_REQUIRED while /v1/models still answers 200, so a health check that reads the model list looks healthy while every completion is refused. source
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| Identity | card a payment method and purchased credits before the first request: the plans page reads "Add a payment method and purchase credits to run your first requests", and the previous USD 5 no-card grant was dropped on 2026-08-14. The record does not name which payment methods are accepted, whether a card is required rather than another rail, any hold, debit or prepaid acceptance, or whether signup asks for an email or a phone. The rate-limit documentation still describes a "Free Tier: Applied when there is no payment method linked with your account", which contradicts the plans page |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Interface | rest inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | nothing composes: needs a card before the first request. |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 5
More fields 1
| facets | {"class": "refutation","free_tier_kind": "none","shape": {"vcpu": null,"ram_gib": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": 0}} |
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Unknown values 6
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- 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