Fireworks AI free credits: $1

Fireworks AI gives new accounts $1 in free credits. The pricing page words it as “Get started with $1 in free credits.” It is a one-time signup credit, it works without adding a payment method, and no expiry date is stated officially. When the credit is used up, the official FAQ says your “account will be suspended until you add a payment method.” Checked against the official pricing page and billing FAQ on 2026-09-02.

What one dollar buys

Serverless inference is billed per million tokens, so the $1 is token budget, not GPU time. From the official price list: models under 4B parameters cost $0.10 per 1M tokens, so $1 covers about 10 million tokens there. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 costs $0.14 per 1M input tokens and $0.28 per 1M output tokens, so about 7.1 million tokens if they were all input. Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B costs $0.05 per 1M input tokens, about 20 million input-only tokens. These are straight divisions of official rates, not measurements.

What happens at zero

Fireworks is prepaid. Inference pauses at a $0 balance unless you enable Auto Reload, and the account suspension quoted above kicks in until a payment method is added. Two more official caveats worth knowing before you rely on the credit: adding credits does not raise your monthly spend limit, which is a separate control, and an account can be suspended even with credits remaining. Rate and token-per-minute limits also stay low until you add a payment method and build up spend.

What I have done with it

Not tested yet. I have not personally run the $1 down, so this page reports only what the official pages state.

The notable thing about this credit is that it exists and is usable through the API at all: Together AI and DeepInfra both require paying before your first token, and Replicate publishes no dollar amount for its free runs. Every grant I track is on the credits index.