The latest articles on DEV Community by CreditDrop (@creditdrop). https://dev.to/creditdrop https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F4182484%2Fc846f95f-99c9-4be0-a2b6-b26fb991f428.png https://dev.to/creditdrop en CreditDrop Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:59:04 +0000 https://dev.to/creditdrop/i-built-a-free-ai-credits-list-that-verifies-itself-every-day-519l https://dev.to/creditdrop/i-built-a-free-ai-credits-list-that-verifies-itself-every-day-519l <p>Every "free AI credits" list I found had the same problem: half the offers had ended. So I built CreditDrop (<a href="https://creditdrop.cohencool.workers.dev" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://creditdrop.cohencool.workers.dev</a>), a board where every offer is re-checked against its official page every day.</p> <h2> What's on it </h2> <p>46 offers right now:</p> <ul> <li> <strong>Free tiers (19):</strong> Gemini API, Groq (30 RPM / 1,000 req/day on some models), Cloudflare Workers AI (10,000 Neurons/day), OpenRouter <code>:free</code> models, Exa, Tavily, Firecrawl, Qdrant Cloud, Langfuse…</li> <li> <strong>API signup credits (8):</strong> Deepgram $200, Pinecone Standard trial $300, AssemblyAI $50, Cerebras $5…</li> <li> <strong>Student deals (5):</strong> GitHub Copilot Student, OpenAI Codex for Students ($100), Google AI Plus for students…</li> <li> <strong>Startup programs (14):</strong> Google for Startups, AWS Activate, Microsoft for Startups, Cloudflare for Startups… (the amounts are maximums)</li> </ul> <h2> How the verification works </h2> <ul> <li>Each offer in <code>offers.py</code> has a source URL plus either numbers in its description or <code>check</code> phrases taken from the official page.</li> <li> <code>verify.py</code> runs every morning. It checks link status and looks for those figures or phrases on the page, then writes results to <code>checked.json</code>.</li> <li>Anything that doesn't match gets flagged as stale, and I read the page by hand before updating it. A 403 usually means a bot block, not a dead offer.</li> <li>Ended offers move to a REMOVED list with the reason, and the site shows that list publicly.</li> <li>The same run rebuilds the static site, deploys it to Cloudflare Workers and health-checks 14 URLs.</li> </ul> <h2> Stack </h2> <p>Python build script → static HTML/CSS/JS → Cloudflare Workers (plus a small worker for the newsletter and bookings). No cookies, anonymous analytics, $0 hosting.</p> <p>If you know a real offer that's missing, or one whose terms changed, please let me know in the comments.</p> ai webdev showdev