Free $400+ to build with AI - no credit card.
Nebius just launched its AI Builder Program: $400+ in credits and discounts across the stack - Nebius Token Factory, LangChain, Toloka, Tavily - plus free courses (Nebius Academy + NVIDIA), cookbooks, and certification for $1.
Open models on tap: NVIDIA Nemotron, Qwen, MiniMax. Coding agents: Cognition, OpenHands.
The reversal: the free tier didn't disappear, it moved. Vendors stopped handing out raw API credits and started bundling them into builder programs - credits + courses + office hours, all in one signup.
1,800 devs signed up in the first days. The catch, as always: credits run out, and then you pay. But $400 of free infra is a real runway for a side project.
What would you build with $400 of free GPU?
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Free membership with $25 Nebius Token Factory credit, $25 Tavily credit, $100 LangSmith credit and Toloka/Tendem credits (Nebius advertises $400+ in credits and discounts), plus the Nebius certification for $1
Nebius runs an AI cloud and Token Factory, an inference service for open models. Its free AI Builder Program gives members partner credits for Token Factory, Tavily, LangSmith and Toloka/Tendem, plus cookbooks, a free course, office hours and a $1 certification.
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- Who qualifies
- Free for everyone: developers, researchers, students, founders, ML engineers, open-source builders and technical teams. Partner offers are subject to each partner's terms.
- How to claim
- Join free at https://dev.nebius.com/builders, tell Nebius what you're building, verify your email, then claim the credits for the tools you want.
- Expiry
- ongoing
Heads up. Credits are for learning and experimentation, not production. Partner offers depend on each partner's terms. The certification costs $1. Nebius's page lists Toloka as $100 in one place and $50 Toloka plus $50 Tendem in its FAQ.
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