Free $5 to test LLM inference — no credit card required. 🆓
DigitalOcean is giving new customers a $5 credit through the Managed Agents free trial (public preview). Roughly 4.5M tokens of inference on hosted models like Kimi K3, GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4 Flash, plus agent runtime.
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$5 in credit for Agent Droplets, no card needed
DigitalOcean is a developer cloud for virtual servers, managed databases, Kubernetes, GPUs and AI inference. The Agent Droplets free trial gives new customers $5 in credit to run AI agents in isolated microVMs, with inference on DigitalOcean-hosted open models, storage and tool access.
LiveVerified Oct 24, 2026 against the official page
- Who qualifies
- New DigitalOcean customers only
- How to claim
- Sign up for a new DigitalOcean account and start the Agent Droplets free trial
- Expiry
- ongoing
Heads up. New customers only; existing customers start on a paid plan. The credit covers inference on DigitalOcean-hosted models such as Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3; frontier models like Claude and GPT bill at list price. Once the $5 is used up, usage continues at list price unless you stop it.
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Added Oct 24, 2026 · Updated Oct 24, 2026, 07:01 UTC
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