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04 / Changelog

Every change, dated and sourced

A dated record of every change to the credits dataset: entries added, amounts and expiries changed, offers ended, corrections, and monthly reverifications that found no change. Each line links the affected entry and the official page it was checked against. Also available as a dedicated feed; the main feed carries these too. Tools and curators can read the same changes from changes.xml, which adds the dataset schema version and a structured change kind, entry id, source URL, and check date per item.

September 2026

50 changes
  • Terms changedBeam

    Beam replaced its terms of service, effective 2026-09-14, and the clause prohibiting benchmarking is gone. The previous version was dated 2023-01-23 and included 'You may not: ... (viii) benchmark or perform competitive analysis on the Service', which is why this site declined to publish measured timings for Beam. Neither the word benchmark nor the phrase competitive analysis appears anywhere in the new document. Its replacement, section 3.1 Restrictions, runs (a) through (h) and covers derivative works, reverse engineering, fee avoidance, resale, circumventing metering, unauthorized vulnerability scanning, notice removal, and degrading the service for others. Measuring performance is not among them. Nothing has been tested yet, so the entry's whatYouCanDo is unchanged; only the reason for the refusal is gone.docs.beam.cloud

  • Offer endedSalad

    Salad's 5-audio-hour transcription free trial is off the official pages, and the no-free-trial wording widened to cover two products. The pricing page used to state 'Salad Container Engine does not have a free trial'; it now answers in its FAQ 'Is there a free trial? No. SaladCloud and the Transcription API are pay-as-you-go with no minimum commitment', naming the transcription product alongside the container product. Neither cited page mentions the 5-audio-hour allowance any more. The entry stays no-free-credit, which it already was for GPU purposes, and the section warning readers not to count the transcription trial as GPU credit now records the withdrawal instead.salad.com

  • Offer endedBeam

    Beam withdrew the $30 per month free credit. The pricing page has been rebuilt around per-second rates with no plan tiers, and the wording 'Free Credit, Every Month' that this site verified on 2026-08-21, 2026-08-29 and 2026-09-02 is no longer on the pricing page, either docs page, the homepage, or the docs llms.txt index. The $0 base plan and the $89 Team plan are gone with it; storage stays free to 1TB. Two rates moved in the same rebuild: H100 PCIE from $0.000986 to $0.000972 per second, and the on-demand H100 teaser from $1.74 to $1.83 per hour. The entry moves from monthly-free-tier to no-free-credit, and the free GPU credits guide drops from four qualifying credits to three. Whether the allowance survives inside the signup flow or for existing accounts is not stated on any public page.www.beam.cloud

  • Rechecked Alibaba Cloud: USD 90 in ECS credits valid 3 months and the card requirement unchanged; solution trial points still run 1 year.www.alibabacloud.com

  • Amount changedAnthropic

    Anthropic changed from no stated free credit to a small signup allowance: the pricing docs FAQ now states 'New users receive a small amount of free credits to test the API', with no dollar figure. The entry's grant type moved from no-free-credit to signup-credit; the circulated $5 remains absent from official pages, and purchased credits still expire one year from purchase.platform.claude.com

  • ReverifiedAWS

    Rechecked AWS: up to $200 in credits ($100 at signup plus up to $100 earned), the 6-month free plan window, the 12-month credit expiry, and the payment method requirement all unchanged.aws.amazon.com

  • Rechecked Azure: $200 for 30 days or until exhaustion, no carry-over, and the non-prepaid card requirement all unchanged.azure.microsoft.com

  • ReverifiedBeam

    Rechecked Beam: $30 free credit refreshed monthly on the $0 base plan unchanged; rollover and card requirement remain unstated.www.beam.cloud

  • Rechecked Cerebrium: the Hobby plan is still free plus billed compute, with no signup credit and no stated card requirement.www.cerebrium.ai

  • ReverifiedCivo

    Rechecked Civo: $250 over 31 calendar days with card verification unchanged; the signup page still allows 3 months from sign up to add a card and claim the credit.www.civo.com

  • Rechecked Cloudflare Workers: 100,000 requests per day with 10 ms CPU per invocation unchanged; limits still reset daily at 00:00 UTC.developers.cloudflare.com

  • Rechecked Cohere: the free rate-limited trial key at 1,000 API calls a month unchanged; no card requirement stated.docs.cohere.com

  • Rechecked Contabo: still no free credit; paid plans with upfront payment remain the only path.contabo.com

  • Rechecked Crusoe: $5 in serverless-only credits unchanged; the circulated $300 new-customer credit remains absent from official pages.docs.crusoecloud.com

  • Rechecked Daytona: $200 in free compute with no card required unchanged on the pricing and billing docs; credit expiry remains unstated.www.daytona.io

  • Rechecked DeepInfra: still no free credit, card or prepay still required, and DeepStart remains apply-only.deepinfra.com

  • Rechecked Deno Deploy: the $0 Free plan unchanged; quota overruns still pause apps until the next cycle, and full free quotas still sit behind card verification.deno.com

  • Rechecked DigitalOcean: the $5 signup credit, 90-day expiry, and payment method requirement all unchanged.docs.digitalocean.com

  • ReverifiedE2B

    Rechecked E2B: the one-time $100 Hobby credit with no card required unchanged; credit expiry remains unstated.e2b.dev

  • Rechecked Exoscale: still no free credit; registration still requires validating a payment method with prepaid funds.www.exoscale.com

  • Rechecked fal.ai: still no standard signup credit; occasional grants still expire 1 week to 1 year and purchased credits 365 days.fal.ai

  • Rechecked Fireworks AI: the $1 signup credit with no card to start unchanged; accounts still suspend at depletion until a payment method is added.fireworks.ai

  • Rechecked Google Cloud: the $300 Welcome credit over 90 days (3 months in the terms), the card requirement, and the new-customers-only rule all unchanged.cloud.google.com

  • ReverifiedGroq

    Rechecked Groq: the $0 rate-limited Free plan unchanged, with per-model limits published and no card requirement stated.console.groq.com

  • Rechecked Hetzner: still no signup credit; promo codes still apply from the current billing period onward, and the circulated EUR 20 stays absent from official pages.docs.hetzner.com

  • Rechecked IBM Cloud: the USD 200 credit for 30 days after a Pay-as-you-go upgrade and the card hold of about USD 1 unchanged.www.ibm.com

  • Rechecked Lambda: still no signup credit; the research grant of up to $5,000 remains the one official free path, by application.lambda.ai

  • Rechecked Linode (Akamai Cloud): still no automatic credit; signup still requires a card or PayPal, and promo codes remain the only credit mechanism.techdocs.akamai.com

  • Rechecked Mistral: Free mode remains the default with the lowest limits and no published numbers; quotas stay org-specific.help.mistral.ai

  • ReverifiedModal

    Rechecked Modal: Starter's $30 per month and the payment-method requirement unchanged on the pricing and billing pages.modal.com

  • Rechecked Nebius: the free trial remains suspended as of July 13, 2026, with no new sign-ups; research grants and the startup program remain application-based.docs.nebius.com

  • ReverifiedNeon

    Rechecked Neon: the permanent $0 plan with no card required unchanged; exhausting monthly CU-hours or transfer still suspends compute until the next period.neon.com

  • Corrected Netlify's card field from no to not-stated: the 'no credit card required' wording comes from the launch-era blog post about the pre-2025 Legacy Free plan, and the current pricing page and billing docs state nothing about cards either way. The 300 credits per month and hard-limit pause behavior are unchanged.www.netlify.com

  • Rechecked Northflank: the free Developer Sandbox plan (2 services, 2 jobs, 1 addon) and the payment-method-for-all-plans rule unchanged.northflank.com

  • Rechecked OpenAI: still no free credit; the Free row in the rate-limit table remains a usage tier with a $100 monthly cap, not a grant.developers.openai.com

  • Rechecked OVHcloud: US$200 for one month from first Public Cloud project creation and the payment method requirement unchanged.www.ovhcloud.com

  • Corrected Paperspace: the pricing page states free machines auto-shutdown at a 12-hour limit per session, where this entry previously reported session caps as not stated officially. Monthly hour caps remain unstated, and the free M4000 notebook offer itself is unchanged.www.paperspace.com

  • Rechecked Prime Intellect: still no free or promotional credit; prepaid per-minute billing unchanged.docs.primeintellect.ai

  • Rechecked Replicate: free runs on select models remain unquantified officially, and purchased credit is still valid for 1 year from purchase.replicate.com

  • Rechecked RunPod: still no signup credit; $10 remains the minimum deposit, and the startup program remains selective and application-based.docs.runpod.io

  • ReverifiedSalad

    Rechecked Salad: Container Engine still has no free trial, and the separate 5-audio-hour Transcription API trial this entry already documents remains the only free item.salad.com

  • Rechecked Scaleway: the EUR 100 Professional-account offer and the valid-payment-method requirement unchanged.www.scaleway.com

  • Rechecked Shadeform: still no platform credit; the free part remains the zero-markup platform itself, and the circulated $300 stays absent from official pages.shadeform.com

  • Rechecked TensorDock: still no free credit; the $5 minimum deposit remains the entry point.www.tensordock.com

  • Rechecked Thunder Compute: the $20 automatic credit for US university email signups unchanged; expiry and card requirement remain unstated.www.thundercompute.com

  • Rechecked Together AI: still no free trials, access still starts at a $5 minimum purchase, and purchased credits still carry no expiration date.docs.together.ai

  • Corrected UpCloud on two points, with the offer's terms unchanged: the boost500 promotion no longer shows on the default signup page and now requires entering the promo code (the default offer is the 7-day standard trial), and the promotion banner now explicitly excludes GPU servers, where this entry previously reported GPU eligibility as not stated. The code still applies $500 / EUR 500 for 30 days; the deploy250 code linked from the free-trial docs shows as inactive.signup.upcloud.com

  • Rechecked Vast.ai: still no free credit; the billing docs state instances are never free and prepayment is required.docs.vast.ai

  • Rechecked Vercel: the $0 Hobby plan with no billing cycles unchanged; exceeding Sandbox quotas still pauses creation until 30 days after first use.vercel.com

  • ReverifiedVultr

    Rechecked Vultr: free credits for up to 30 days with no stated dollar amount unchanged; payment method still required for verification.docs.vultr.com

August 2026

75 changes

Daily source checks

29 of 29 days

Two different things verify this dataset and they are worth keeping apart. The monthly recheck is a person opening every official page and reading it; its date is the one each entry carries. This is the other one: every morning a job takes the figure an entry publishes and looks for it on that entry's own cited sources. It catches a withdrawn or changed number within a day, and it catches nothing else. Of 55 entries, 28 publish a figure specific enough to search for. The other 27 either state no credit or state one in words no string match can check, and only the monthly read covers those.

  1. 2026-08-29, all clear
  2. 2026-08-30, all clear
  3. 2026-08-31, all clear
  4. 2026-09-01, all clear
  5. 2026-09-02, all clear
  6. 2026-09-03, all clear
  7. 2026-09-04, all clear
  8. 2026-09-05, all clear
  9. 2026-09-06, all clear
  10. 2026-09-07, all clear
  11. 2026-09-08, all clear
  12. 2026-09-09, all clear
  13. 2026-09-10, all clear
  14. 2026-09-11, all clear
  15. 2026-09-12, all clear
  16. 2026-09-13, all clear
  17. 2026-09-14, all clear
  18. 2026-09-15, all clear
  19. 2026-09-16, all clear
  20. 2026-09-17, all clear
  21. 2026-09-18, all clear
  22. 2026-09-19, all clear
  23. 2026-09-20, all clear
  24. 2026-09-21, all clear
  25. 2026-09-22, all clear
  26. 2026-09-23, all clear
  27. 2026-09-24, all clear
  28. 2026-09-25, all clear
  29. 2026-09-26, all clear

Last run : all 28 watched figures still appear on a cited source.

How changes are found: every entry is rechecked against its official pages on a monthly cycle, and both outcomes are recorded here, whether a value changed or not. The rules are on the methodology page; the current values live in the credits index.