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Every Free Credit and Promo Code for Developer Tools (April 2026)

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Why pay full price when nearly every developer tool gives away free credits? This list is updated monthly. Bookmark it.

AI Coding Tools

Tool Free Offer How to Get It
GitHub Copilot Free for students + open-source maintainers education.github.com
xAI (Grok API) $25 free credits on signup console.x.ai
xAI Data Sharing $150/month free API credits Opt in at console.x.ai settings
Google Gemini API Free tier — 15 RPM, 1M tokens/day ai.google.dev
Anthropic Claude API $5 free credits on signup console.anthropic.com
Together AI $5 free credits together.ai
Groq Free tier — fast inference groq.com

Cloud & Hosting

Service Free Offer Details
Cloudflare Pages Unlimited static sites, free No credit card needed
Vercel Free tier — hobby projects Generous limits for personal use
Railway $5/month free credits railway.app
Supabase Free tier — 2 projects, 500MB DB supabase.com
PlanetScale Free tier — 1 DB, 5GB storage planetscale.com
Neon Free tier — PostgreSQL, 0.5GB neon.tech

App Store & Marketing

Tool Free Offer Details
Apple Search Ads $100 free ad credit New accounts, one-time
Google Ads Varies — typically $500 match New accounts
Bing Ads $500 free credits Import from Google Ads

Analytics & Monitoring

Tool Free Offer Details
TelemetryDeck 100K signals/month free Privacy-first analytics
Sentry 5K errors/month free Crash reporting
PostHog 1M events/month free Product analytics
LogRocket 1K sessions/month free Session replay

Design & Content

Tool Free Offer Details
Canva Free tier — unlimited designs Pro features limited
Figma Free tier — 3 projects For UI/UX design
ElevenLabs 10K characters/month free AI voice generation
Pexels Free API — unlimited photos No attribution required for API

Domain & Email

Service Free Offer Details
Cloudflare Email Routing Free — custom domain email Forward to Gmail
ImprovMX Free tier — email forwarding Simple setup

The Pro Move

Stack these together and you can run a full SaaS product for $0/month:

  • Hosting: Cloudflare Pages (free)
  • Database: Supabase free tier
  • Auth: Supabase Auth (included)
  • Analytics: TelemetryDeck free tier
  • Monitoring: Sentry free tier
  • AI API: Gemini free tier + Groq free tier
  • Email: Cloudflare Email Routing

Total: $0/month. For real.

Know a deal we missed? Email stackwrite@beatroot.dev and we'll add it. This page is updated on the first of every month.

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