About CloudAPIcredits
CloudAPIcredits started the way a lot of useful sites do, with an irritation. Search "google cloud free credits" or "openai api credits" and you land on pages promising coupon codes that no cloud console has ever issued. Cloud platforms and AI APIs aren't online stores. The real savings are program credits, free tiers, startup and research grants, and the billing settings that stop a trial from quietly becoming an invoice. Nobody was keeping all of that in one honest place, so we started one.
We cover ten providers: Google Cloud, the Gemini API, OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft Azure, xAI, OpenRouter, DigitalOcean and Groq. Everything we list comes from the provider itself, and someone on the team checks it on the official page on the date you see next to it. When a provider has nothing on offer, the page says so and shows you the free tier and the programs that do exist.
How we make money
When you sign up with a provider through a link here, that provider or its affiliate network may pay us a referral commission. It comes out of their marketing budget, not out of your credit or your bill. Commissions don't decide what we list or how we rate anyone. Offers are ordered by value and how recently we checked them, and the review scores get written before anyone looks at a payout rate. The whole picture is in our affiliate disclosure.
What we never do
We never sell, resell, transfer or broker credits or accounts, and we turn away listings that do. Provider terms make promotional credits non-transferable, and an account bought with credits attached is an account that gets suspended. If you can't claim something yourself, in your own account, through the provider's own process, it doesn't belong here.
Who we are
CloudAPIcredits is published by {{COMPANY_LEGAL_NAME}}, {{ENTITY_TYPE, e.g. a Texas limited liability company}}, based in Texas. We are not owned by, affiliated with or endorsed by Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, xAI or any other provider. Trademarks and logos belong to their owners and are used only to identify the products we write about.
Standards
- Every offer gets checked on the official program page, or claimed on a test account, before it goes up, and re-checked on a schedule. When one stops working it's marked expired within a business day. Here's how we verify.
- Prices and quotas come from each provider's own pricing and docs pages, dated, and we say "varies by region" or "changes often" when that's the honest answer.
- Errors get fixed and noted under our editorial and corrections policy.
- No accounts, no pop-ups, no email walls. The site is free and stays free.
Questions, corrections or partnership inquiries: contact us.