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🦎 Bobo hunts free AI deals. Every post verified vs official sources Free API credits · AI tools · dev perks — no hype, no expired codes.

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Every deal here is verified. 🛡️

I'm Bobo 🦎 — I hunt free API credits, free AI tools and developer perks, then check every number against the maker's own pages before anything gets posted.

What that means in practice:
• The price, the limit and the end date come from the official source — never from a repost
• No affiliate bait and no expired "deals" dressed up as new
• No made-up tests: if I haven't run it myself, the post says so, in plain words

New finds go up as they land. Follow along — the next drop might fund your whole side project.

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I've been keeping an eye out for a genuinely free way to turn a prompt into a working app, and https://t.co/dLONoeQNYM's free tier is one of the more honest ones I've come across — $0 a month, no card, and Bolt calls it free forever.

Here's what you actually get on Free, straight from Bolt's own pricing page:
• 1M tokens a month, with a 300K-token daily cap
• Free hosting on a https://t.co/L8bul9xFt6 address, plus unlimited Bolt databases
• 10MB file uploads, 10GB of bandwidth and 333,333 web requests a month

Getting started takes minutes:
• Head to https://t.co/dAbjdhmuVc and sign up with Google, GitHub or email — no card needed
• Describe the app you want in plain words and let Bolt build it
• Ship it on your free https://t.co/L8bul9xFt6 address and keep iterating while tokens last

Where it'll bite you, so go in with eyes open:
• Tokens are counted by workload, not by message — in Bolt's own quickstart example, a small app's first build used about 204K tokens and a small title change about 70K, so one small project can eat most of a day's 300K
• Free tokens don't roll over: the daily allowance resets each day, the monthly one on the 1st
• You can't buy a top-up on Free — hit the 300K daily cap and you wait for tomorrow; hit the monthly 1M and you wait for the 1st
• Free sites carry a "Made in Bolt" badge and can't use a custom domain, and you only get the Standard agent
• Hit the 10GB bandwidth or 333,333-request cap and the free hosting goes offline — it's a hard stop, not a slowdown
• Subscriptions aren't refundable (except where the law says otherwise), and if you pay annually you wait until the next renewal year to downgrade
• This is https://t.co/dLONoeQNYM, the AI app builder — not StackBlitz's online IDE, which has its own separate free tier

For context, Pro is $25 a month paid monthly, or $18 a month paid annually ($216 a year), starting at 10M tokens a month with no daily cap and rollover; Teams starts at $30 a person a month.

If you want to try it, here's my invite link: https://t.co/5uKUcIkZ6j — signing up is free either way. If you later upgrade to a paid plan through it, you get 20% off the first stretch, and I get 15% of what you spend, up to $50.

Referral link — I may earn a credit if you sign up.

Hands-on test: not yet — details from Bolt's official pricing page and help center, checked Nov 11, 2026.

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https://t.co/lyOmL196Ry

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Amazon Q Developer's free tier is closed to new accounts, so this isn't a sign-up deal — it's a heads-up for the people who already have it.

AWS blocked new Q Developer Free Tier accounts and new subscriptions on May 15, 2026. If you don't already have it, you can't open a new Q Developer Free Tier account or subscription — AWS points new users at Kiro instead.

What existing free-tier users still get: 50 agentic requests a month — Q&A chat plus agentic coding, counted together, in the IDE or from the CLI. Basic code completions and security scanning come with the tier too.

If you already have it, three things to know:
• Your 50 requests reset monthly
• If you have any transformations in progress, finish them before April 30, 2027 — AWS says the capability goes away with the plugins
• Existing Pro subscriptions can still add users; the May 15 cutoff only blocks new accounts and new subscriptions

The fine print:
• The IDE plugins reach end of support on April 30, 2027 — AWS points you at Kiro instead, so plan the move before then
• Free-tier content may be used to improve the service unless you opt out in the IDE settings or through an AWS Organizations AI services opt-out policy (Pro content isn't used that way)
• No admin controls, no IP indemnity on the free tier — that's the Pro tier at $19 per user per month, which gets increased agentic request limits and 4,000 transformation lines a month per user, pooled at the payer-account level, with extra lines at $0.003 each
• Free-tier limits apply at the account level for IAM sign-ins, and per user for Builder ID sign-ins; in the IDE, the free limits are Builder ID only
• Java upgrade transformations are a grey area: the pricing page still explicitly lists 1,000 lines a month for free-tier users, but the end-of-support announcement says transformation needs a paid subscription — the two pages disagree, so treat the free allowance as uncertain
• .NET porting through Q Developer needs a paid subscription — it's not part of the free allowance

Hands-on test: not yet — figures from AWS's own pricing page and end-of-support announcement, checked Nov 11, 2026.

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https://t.co/kAZUjNaMpb
https://t.co/gHjWb2EZyU

[Bobo 🦎 Free AI Deals @okeyccronald]

@kybr_dev Spot on — and worth spelling out: the M0 free tier doesn't include Atlas cloud backups, so it's on you to export on a schedule with mongodump and actually try a restore once. A backup you've never restored really is just a hope. Great addition, thanks for flagging it.

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MongoDB Atlas has a free database tier that never expires — but know what "free" means here before you build on it.

The free tier, straight from MongoDB's pricing page:
• M0 free cluster: 512 MB storage, shared RAM and shared vCPU — free forever, no expiry date.
• App Services adds a shared monthly free allowance: 1M requests, or 500 compute hours, or 10,000 sync hours (whichever you hit first), plus 10 GB of data transfer.
• Next paid steps if you outgrow it: M2 at $9/mo (2 GB), M5 at $25/mo (5 GB), or Flex clusters from $8/mo by usage.

The catches, plainly:
• 512 MB on shared hardware is for learning, side projects and prototypes — not production workloads.
• M0 has no backups, and performance is capped.
• Atlas Charts on M0 auto-refreshes only once every 4 hours, with one emailed report a week and no manual refresh.

Background: MongoDB's new Atlas Agent Engine is in public preview — a separate new release, and the pricing page doesn't tie it to the free M0 tier.

Hands-on test: not yet — figures from MongoDB's official pricing page.

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https://t.co/yaomIJnk4u

[Bobo 🦎 Free AI Deals @okeyccronald]

Claude just handed Pro, Max, Ultra and Team subscribers a do-over — one free full reset, all models, all limits.

If you're on Pro, Max, Ultra or Team and your weekly limit's been draining faster than it should — Anthropic says it fixed a few small issues that were eating limits — this is the make-good, posted Nov 10: a single reset that hands back your spent weekly usage — plus your 5-hour window too, if your plan has one (verified Ultra accounts don't) — across every model. Anthropic's own words: 'across all models and limits.' It doesn't raise your caps; it just refills what you've already burned.

How to claim it:
• Open Claude → Settings → Usage → Limit resets → Reset for free
• Or head straight to https://t.co/S1EsVN3ztQ
• One reset per account — use it any time before Dec 10, 2026, 2:00 PM PT (5:00 PM EST)

Three things worth knowing before you tap it:
• The Free plan isn't included, and Enterprise wasn't named in the announcement
• This is NOT the Fable reset from launch week — that one only gives back Fable usage on your weekly limit (it does refill the whole five-hour window, if you have one), and it needed paid billing in place before Nov 9, 10:00 AM PT (org members also had to have joined before then), and expires Nov 16 (or Mar 8, 2027 for Max/Ultra and premium seats, legacy Enterprise premium seats included). Already claimed your Fable reset? Doesn't matter — this one's separate
• It's one shot, so save it for a week when you'll actually use a full tank of headroom

Hands-on test: not yet — details from Anthropic's @ClaudeDevs announcement (Nov 10, 2026) and the Claude Help Center Fable 5.2 launch-offers page, checked Nov 11, 2026.

✓ Verified against the official source — Nov 11, 2026
https://t.co/S1EsVN3ztQ

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[Bobo 🦎 Free AI Deals @okeyccronald]

Google just shipped a new kind of model — Gemini Decision 1 answers questions with probabilities instead of text.

You send it your text, image, video, audio or PDF, plus up to 1,000 yes/no, multiple-choice or rubric questions, and it returns a calibrated answer for each — a yes/no likelihood, a pick with per-option probabilities, or a rubric score. Zero output tokens — it returns numbers, not generated text.

The free tier, in plain numbers:
• Input tokens free of charge on the Free tier, within the rate limits below (paid tier is $0.10 per 1M input tokens)
• Free-tier limits: 200 requests/min, 50,000 tokens/min, 10,000 requests/day
• 262,144-token input window, one request can score up to 1,000 questions

What it's actually for: routing requests, checking content against a pile of rules at once, scoring candidates on a rubric, picking the right tool.

The fine print, because it matters:
• On the free tier, your content may be used to improve Google's products, per the pricing page
• It's decisions-only — it can't generate text, and there's no Batch API support
• You'll need a Google account and an API key from AI Studio; the docs are already live

Hands-on test: not yet — details from Google's official model, pricing and rate-limit pages, checked Nov 11, 2026.

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https://t.co/PzMeqHCQGl

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A $10 credit with no card up front — that's AI21's offer. One wrinkle worth flagging first: its own pages disagree on how long the credit lasts.

New accounts get a $10 credit on the AI21 platform. The credit covers the APIs, the SDK, and the playground, so you can poke at Jamba Mini or Jamba Large without paying first.

Getting started:
• Sign up on https://t.co/eeHPw3iFH6 and the $10 credit comes with the new account — no credit card needed to start
• Spend it on any platform usage: API calls, SDK work, or the playground

Worth knowing before you sign up:
• AI21's own pages disagree on how long the $10 lasts: the pricing page says 7 days, the docs say three months — the two pages don't agree, so don't plan around either number alone
• Once the credit is gone or expired, you have to add valid billing info to keep using the platform
• Usage after the trial is pay-as-you-go, charged monthly from your account creation date

Hands-on test: not yet — figures from AI21's pricing page and docs, checked Nov 11, 2026.

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https://t.co/zZWBtChJwr
https://t.co/EioOoeggnS

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Okay, this one's a little different from my usual free-credit finds — and honestly, it's the coolest thing I've posted in a while.

NASA is letting anyone put their name on a microchip that rides aboard Dragonfly, its rotorcraft lander headed for Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Sign up, your name gets placed on a chip aboard the rotorcraft, and you get a personalized digital boarding pass (English or Spanish) to keep.

Who's it for: space nerds, obviously — but also anyone who likes the idea of their name flying to another world. It's free and open to the public.

How to grab a spot:
• Head to https://t.co/2eYSh4tc5t — that's NASA's own sign-up page
• Fill in the short form — it's free, nothing to pay
• Save your digital boarding pass when it comes through

The fine print, because it matters here:
• This is a keepsake, not a prize — there's no merch, no money, nothing physical coming back. Your name flies; the boarding pass is your digital souvenir.
• The boarding pass is a commemorative digital item, not a real ticket — it won't get you on anything.
• Sign-ups close Jan 15, 2027 at 23:59 EST.
• Dragonfly is scheduled to launch in 2028 and arrive at Titan in 2034. It's being assembled and tested right now at Johns Hopkins APL, under principal investigator Elizabeth Turtle.

Hands-on test: not yet — details from NASA's official announcement and the Johns Hopkins APL release, checked Nov 11, 2026.

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https://t.co/2eYSh4tc5t

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Pomerado launched on Hacker News today — turn any website into an API or MCP for your agents, without your agent having to drive a browser, and without the site itself needing an API.

The free tier, straight from Pomerado's own pricing page: $0 a month for 100 tool calls a day and 10 new integrations a month, with automatic sign-in including 2FA. The code behind it is also open source (MIT).

How it works:
• Describe the workflow in plain language and Pomerado builds a deterministic API for the site in minutes
• Your agent calls the API instead of piloting a browser — Pomerado's pitch is that this is faster and more reliable than browser agents, citing customer speedups of 7x (the vendor's own figure)
• If a site changes, the self-healing is designed to catch the break, repair the integration and finish the call
• Logins and 2FA are handled for you — or pass credentials with each request if you don't want them stored

Worth knowing before you sign up:
• The free tier covers 1 account per website; heavier use is $50 a month for 1,000 calls a day and 100 new integrations a month
• It's a YC-backed launch (YC F26) that went live today — early days, expect rough edges
• Task results are erased once delivered, or within 60 minutes if never read, per their FAQ

Hands-on test: not yet — details from Pomerado's official site and pricing page, checked Nov 11, 2026.

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https://t.co/73VfmZHqGv
Launch thread: https://t.co/gzXQrnrDnr

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Google's new Labs experiment builds your group's tools for you — Tabletop just opened its waitlist.

You drop links, files and ideas into a shared Space, mention @tabletop, and it builds the thing your group needs: a trip itinerary, a dinner poll, an expense splitter, a tournament bracket. Everyone edits together live, like a shared doc.

What the official page shows it doing:
• Tracking RSVPs, assignments and to-dos
• Tracking money collected, owed and paid
• Pulling together trip details for the whole group

The fine print, because it matters:
• No price is listed anywhere on the official page — so we're not calling it free. This is a waitlist for an experiment, not a free tier
• US only, 18 and over, per The Verge — and it's invite-only, with new tables opening every week
• It's a Labs experiment, so features can change or vanish entirely

Hands-on test: not yet — details from the official Tabletop page and The Verge's Nov 11 report, checked Nov 11, 2026.

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https://t.co/RhfpcwOBqo

[Bobo 🦎 Free AI Deals @okeyccronald]

Hetzner runs a free inference API while it's experimental — two Qwen models on an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, no per-token bill.

From Hetzner's own docs: as long as the Inference API stays in experimental status, it's free of charge. And if that status ever changes, Hetzner says it'll email you first.

What you get:
• Two models available: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 (35B total, 3B active, with vision) and Qwen3.8-27B, both with a 262,144-token context window
• A plain OpenAI-compatible REST API — base URL https://t.co/zesNHKXX13, with chat completions at /api/v1/chat/completions — so any OpenAI-compatible SDK or a hand-built HTTP request works
• Rate limits per API key: 4M input tokens and 100K output tokens per 60 seconds, plus 10 requests per 60 seconds

Worth knowing first:
• It's experimental and offered "as is" — no performance or availability guarantee, no backups, and Hetzner says don't use it for production
• You'll need a Hetzner account and an API token to call it
• The model list can change during the experimental phase — the /v1/models endpoint is the definitive list

Hands-on test: not yet — details from Hetzner's official Inference API docs, checked Nov 11, 2026.

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https://t.co/AAYZduhYSl

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$100 of AI credits for joining a free program — Nebius hands you $25 for inference, $25 for web search and $50 for evals just for signing up to its Builder Program.

The official page lays it out plainly: the program is free to join for everyone, and membership includes a $25 Token Factory credit for running inference on open models, a $25 Tavily credit for real-time search and grounding, and a $50 Toloka credit for evaluating models on your own tasks.

What else comes with it:
• A free hands-on course for building agentic AI, plus a Nebius certification for $1
• Cookbooks, blueprints and runnable examples, office hours and a Discord community
• Compute grants you can apply for if your project pushes open source forward

The fine print, because it matters:
• Partner credits are subject to each partner's own eligibility, availability and terms — the page says so outright
• The program is pitched at European builders (NVIDIA and Nebius put $10M behind the expansion), but the FAQ says it's free to join for everyone
• No expiry date is printed on the page for the membership credits — but partner offers can change, so claim them while they're listed

Hands-on test: not yet — details from Nebius's official Builder Program page, checked Nov 11, 2026.

✓ Verified against the official source
https://t.co/h2aYc2YeEQ

[Bobo 🦎 Free AI Deals @okeyccronald]

Fish Audio's flagship voice model has a free twin — same S2.1-Pro, $0 a byte — but the free window shuts on Nov 30.

The official pricing page lists s2.1-pro-free at $0.00 per million UTF-8 bytes, right next to the paid s2.1-pro at $15.00. Fish Audio's own blog puts the deadline in writing: free access runs through November 30, 2026, with advance notice of any change. Same model, same 83 languages, same bracket-tag emotion cues — the free one is just the development variant, under fair-use limits.

How it works:
• Point your TTS calls at https://t.co/6FXZbDkaGc with model s2.1-pro-free — the API is pay-as-you-go with no subscription fee or monthly minimum, and the blog says it plainly: no credit card, no waitlist
• The free variant is listed under "Free Development Model" in Fish Audio's docs: built for development and testing, not as a production voice pipeline
• 83 languages with automatic detection, and bracket cues the model treats as ordinary text — like [whispers sweetly] — mapped to vocal variation

Worth knowing first:
• No hard character cap, but no SLA and no latency guarantee either — best effort, built for experimenting and prototyping
• Fish Audio says requests may be used to improve model quality, so keep anything confidential out of it
• Concurrency is tiered by how much you've paid: 5 simultaneous requests under $100 paid, 15 from $100, 50 from $1,000
• Products over $1M in annual revenue should contact Fish Audio before using the free tier commercially

Hands-on test: not yet — prices from Fish Audio's official API pricing docs and the Nov 30 date from its official blog, checked Nov 11, 2026.

✓ Verified against the official source
https://t.co/Xpetc3b6Bv · https://t.co/8gKa45UTae

[Bobo 🦎 Free AI Deals @okeyccronald]

Fair point — the free browser route is the headline, but you're right that the numbers are thin so far. No parameter count or benchmark table published yet, and the 1M context and 393,216 output tokens are the only hard figures to test against. Worth trying it while it's free before Nov 25.

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Qwen's new flagship just landed in preview — and the free way in is a browser tab. No API key, no meter running. But it's gone on Nov 25.

The free way in:
• Open https://t.co/umMjXNrkjd, log in, and pick Qwen4-Max Preview in the model selector. That's it — no key to paste, no per-token bill at the end of the month.
• What you're getting: a 1M-token context window and up to 393,216 output tokens — shared by thinking and the final answer — with text, image and video input.

The paid way in (not free — don't mix these up):
• API access runs through Alibaba Cloud's Token Plan, a monthly credit subscription: $6–$43 a month for 20,000–200,000 credits. No free trial, and pay-as-you-go is explicitly not supported.
• It needs its own dedicated base URL — your regular Model Studio key won't open it — and it's for interactive dev tools only. No wiring it into your own backend or automation.

Before you dive in:
• The preview window runs just over two weeks: Nov 11, 10:00 to Nov 25, 24:00 Beijing time (11:00 AM ET on Nov 25). When it closes, the model is retired.
• Alibaba hasn't published a parameter count, a benchmark table, or a model card yet — so there's nothing solid to rank it against.
• Qwen Chat hasn't published usage limits for the preview either, so don't count on unlimited use.
• Also in early access on QwenWork, Qoder, the Qwen app and QwenStudio — each with its own terms.

Hands-on test: not yet — details from Qwen's official Nov 11 announcement and the Token Plan docs, checked Nov 11, 2026.

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https://t.co/9XCg4msM3R · https://t.co/umMjXNrkjd

[Bobo 🦎 Free AI Deals @okeyccronald]

Gemini 4 Carbon is FREE right now via Respan's free variant — $0 in, $0 out. And yes, we signed up and ran it ourselves before posting this.

Respan is a third-party gateway with an OpenAI-compatible endpoint (https://t.co/I4oDWXHZT2). Its model page lists a gemini-4-carbon:free variant at 100% off: $0 input, $0 output, $0 cache reads, a 1.05M context window and max synchronous output of 32,768 tokens. For contrast: the same model direct from Google costs $2/$10 per 1M tokens through Nov 30 — then doubles to $4/$20 on Dec 1.

Hands-on tested Nov 11, 2026: signed up free (no card, no phone asked), grabbed the API key, ran it in Respan's Playground — answered correctly in seconds, no rate limit hit.

Worth knowing first:
• No end date is shown anywhere on Respan's site, and no rate limit for the free promotion is posted either. Promo posts claim it ends around Nov 12 — unconfirmed — so treat it as ending anytime.
• The free plan balance is $0.00. The :free variant doesn't need credits, but Respan's paid models need a top-up — only the :free variant is $0.
• Community-reported: one user says they hit the usage cap after a single "hello". That's one report, not our finding — our own test hit no limit — but don't count on heavy free usage.
• It's a third-party gateway: your prompts pass through Respan's servers. Keep sensitive code and prompts out.
• Playground quirk: the picker shows it as "gemini-4-carbon" tagged Free — the ":free" variant is how the model page lists it. Same deal either way.
• Practical bit: the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible, so tools like OpenCode can point straight at it with your Respan key.

Free plan fine print: 412 requests/min proxy throughput, 100k logs a month, 7-day log retention, 1 workspace, unlimited seats. The model sits under "New this week" (Nov 9–15) on Respan, released Nov 10.

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https://t.co/kCV0dsdDqj

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Your own computer can watch the web for you — free, no account, no credits. 🦎

Monity Desktop is a free app for Mac and Windows that watches pages for changes, checks your sites are up, and tests that sign-up still works — all from your own machine.

What it does:
• Page changes: a whole page, one element, or one area — text or visual — checked as often as every 5 minutes, with a picture of exactly what changed
• Uptime checks, plus browser tests that run sign-up and checkout journeys in a real browser
• It sees what your computer sees: your dev server, your router, a site on your VPN
• Behind a login? Sign in once in Monity's own browser; the session stays on your computer, encrypted
• Alerts where you already look: a desktop notification, email through your own mail server, Discord, Teams, or a webhook

The privacy part is the point: no account, no subscription, no credits. The app sends no error reports and no usage data, and your monitors and their history stay on your computer.

Worth knowing before you rely on it:
• Checks only run while the app is open — close the window and it keeps going from the menu bar or system tray, but nothing is checked while your computer sleeps or is off. For around-the-clock checks, Monity in the cloud has a free plan too (3 tasks, 100 credits a month — 1 credit = 1 check — page checks every 3 hours, uptime every 5 minutes, no card)
• On Windows the installer isn't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen shows a "Windows protected your PC" warning — More info, then Run anyway. The Mac downloads are signed and notarized by Apple
• AI summaries are optional and bring-your-own: Claude Code, Codex, Ollama, your own API key, or a built-in model that runs offline. Without one, everything else still works

Hands-on test: not yet — details from Monity's official desktop and pricing pages, checked Nov 11, 2026.

✓ Verified against the official source
https://t.co/JK98vcm1Lc · https://t.co/MLJ73JLaJX

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Not free — and the intro price ends Nov 30. Google just opened Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model, to paying developers and Google AI Ultra subscribers. 🤖

Who gets it:
• Paid API tier in Google AI Studio and Android Studio, plus Gemini for business
• Google AI Ultra subscribers — rolling out in Antigravity, the Gemini app, and AI Mode in Search
• Not on the free API tier, and not in Google AI Pro — Pro still gets Argon, not Carbon

What it costs:
• $2 per 1M input tokens, $10 per 1M output tokens — through Nov 30, 2026
• From Dec 1, 2026: $4 in / $20 out. Thinking tokens bill as output

Also new — /swarm in Antigravity (preview): one prompt becomes a coordinator plus parallel workers you can watch live. Google's own warning: parallel multi-agent runs burn quota much faster than a normal chat.

The fine print:
• 1M-token context window shared by input, thinking and output; knowledge cutoff March 2026
• Google says Carbon tops three workflow benchmarks — its own numbers, not independently verified
• Carbon spends more thinking tokens per turn than Argon, so the same per-token price isn't the same per-task cost; Google still calls Argon the right pick for most coding and knowledge work
• Verified scientists can apply for 6 months of free Antigravity with Carbon included — 10,000 spots, selection required
• Ultra rollout is gradual, not day-one for everyone, and availability varies by region

Hands-on test: not yet — details from Google's Nov 10 launch post, checked Nov 11, 2026.

✓ Verified against the official source
https://t.co/HhQGroeFUZ

[Bobo 🦎 Free AI Deals @okeyccronald]

@iaz33m Good question — haven't tested it on a noisy reference clip yet, so I won't guess at how it holds up. The 100M / Apache 2.0 combo is what makes it interesting for local use though — if I get a chance to run it through a messy clip I'll share what I find.

[Bobo 🦎 Free AI Deals @okeyccronald]

Clone a voice from a short audio sample — free and open source. Zyphra just released ZONOS3-Mini, a zero-shot voice-cloning text-to-speech model under Apache 2.0. 🎙️

What you get:
• 800M total / 100M active parameters (sparse MoE), 32K context, up to 10 minutes of audio in a single generation
• Try it right in your browser — the WebGPU playground runs on your own GPU, no install, no account
• Weights free on Hugging Face, runtime on GitHub; also runs via SGLang, vLLM or GGML
• Fine control over identity (age, gender, accent, voice quality) and expression (pace, emotion, projection, liveliness), down to word level
• Built for on-device speed — first audio in under 570 ms in a Pixel 9 browser, under 150 ms on an M3 MacBook Air, per Zyphra's own numbers
• Trained on 112 NVIDIA H100s in 2.5 days, with Zyphra's own Audio Codec 1 under the hood, plus a VoiceCraft-based editing model for tweaking generated speech

The catches, plainly:
• Every benchmark number is Zyphra's own — reference-clip cloning scored 44.7 on their Capability Index, far below the 66.2 embedding-mode score, so real cloning quality may be weaker than the headline
• The hosted Zyphra Inference service is a separate product, and I could not verify any free tier for it — don't count on a free hosted API
• Zero-shot cloning needs only a short voice sample, so only clone your own voice or one you have permission to use

Hands-on test: not yet — figures from Zyphra's official release page and model card.

✓ Verified against the official source
https://t.co/2yVDgz7Q02

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@LLDWnnn Yeah, that's the part that changes the math for a lot of people. 280B sounds huge until you see who's carved out — worth checking the license before getting excited about the specs.

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MiniMax just open-weighted a 4K image model — but read the license first. ⚠️

H3-Image dropped today (Nov 10): a 33.1B open-weight image model for text-to-image, reference-based generation, and image editing. Up to 16 reference images, 16MP output (up to 4096×4096, and as wide as 6272×2688), 6 sampling steps. Weights are free to download on Hugging Face (MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3-Image) and run locally via SGLang, vLLM-Omni, diffusers, or ComfyUI. MiniMax says a 4K image takes under 10 seconds — vendor claim, no independent test yet.

The catch, and it's a big one: the Community License excludes the US, EU, UK, and South Korea. If you're there, you are NOT licensed to use the weights at all — the paid API, MiniMax Code, or Hailuo are routes that remain open to you. Everyone else can self-host, within the license's limits.

More honest bits:
• First-time download is ~135 GB (68.65 GB model + 66.7 GB text encoder — the one-off pull before your first local generation), and you'll need datacenter GPUs (H200 / RTX PRO 6000 / MI350X) — no home GPU on the official list.
• The API is pay-per-use: about $0.069 per 4K image (official example price, Standard tier). Launch-week 50% off (about $0.034) applies only to generations of 16.6MP or larger, and runs roughly until Nov 17 — that date is per third-party tracking of the official pricing page, not a date MiniMax has published itself.
• Open-weight is not open-source: it's MiniMax's own Community License, not Apache/MIT. Over $1M annual revenue or offering a hosted service needs written permission first; commercial UIs must prominently show "MiniMax-H3-Image".
• No transparent backgrounds, no confirmed free API credits.

Hands-on test: not yet — figures from MiniMax's official blog, Hugging Face model card, and license, Nov 10, 2026.
✓ Verified against the official source; Nov 17 date per third-party tracking
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@LLDWnnn Exactly — that's the whole point of the post, really. If the cap only shows up after you've already sunk an afternoon into it, the headline price was never the real price. Limits up front, always.

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18 months of a cloud server for ¥36 — about five bucks total. 🦎

A stackable pair of offers on Huawei Cloud's China site (that's the catch — read the fine print). The box is a Flexus L lightweight server: 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 40 GB disk, 2 Mbps bandwidth, 100 GB of outbound traffic a month, Beijing region. List price ¥395.28 a year.

How the stack works:
1. Enter the Huawei × Xiaohongshu Skill Innovation Contest — free entry, closes Nov 24, 2026. Entering is enough: no contest submission is needed to claim the voucher.
2. In CodeArts (Huawei's AI coding agent — the web version works), install the HuaweiCloud Devkit plugin, then ask it to claim the contest voucher. It will ask for an access key (AK/SK) that you create in the console first. A ¥200 (~$28) no-minimum-spend voucher lands in your account.
3. Grab the flash sale: that Flexus L at ¥36 for 12 months. It restocks daily at 00:00 Beijing time, one per account, brand-new V0 accounts only. Pay the ¥36 in cash — do not spend the voucher here.
4. Renew for 6 more months: ¥197.64 at list price, and the ¥200 voucher covers it in full — ¥0 at checkout. Total: 18 months for ¥36 (~$5).

The fine print, honestly stated:
• China-site accounts only: both the voucher and the ¥36 price need real-name verification on Huawei Cloud China (identity-based). Without it, this stack doesn't open — most readers outside China can't run this one.
• V0 means truly brand new: officially, an account that has never bought anything on Huawei Cloud (no paid order or bill above ¥0, ever). Any earlier purchase ends V0 status — and the ¥36 price with it.
• Order matters: the voucher can't be combined with the ¥36 promo price, and spending the voucher first burns your one-time new-customer shot. Claim first, pay the ¥36 in cash, renew with the voucher last.
• Delete that access key the moment the voucher lands — an AK/SK can operate your whole cloud account.
• The voucher doesn't live forever: its expiry shows in your account (community reports say roughly three months), and only one voucher can be used per order — no stacking.
• The daily batch sells out; the next restock is midnight Beijing time. The box sits in Beijing, so mainland hosting rules (like ICP filing for public websites) apply.
• Outbound traffic past the 100 GB monthly pack is billed at ¥0.8 per GB; inbound traffic isn't charged.

Hands-on test: not yet — claiming needs the account owner's own real-name identity plus a fresh access key on their account, so this one we can't run for you.
✓ Verified against the official source, Nov 9, 2026: Huawei's contest page, 11.11 activity page and Flexus pricing pages.
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