Thirty-nine free AI offers launched or materially expanded in the past year — and Hetzner, Fish Audio and Speechify lead the confirmed ones

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A deep-search update as of 24 September 2026, covering launches and material expansions since 24 September 2025. The candidate catalogue holds 59 offers from 52 independent hosts — 28 API, model or voice offers and 31 compute, GPU or sandbox offers; 39 carry a launch date inside the window and 20 are ongoing tiers without one. 16 are confirmed by an official provider source; the rest are promising leads to verify before production. This is a broad candidate catalogue, not a claim that every offer is equally reliable or generally available.

The past year’s launch landscape

official provider source independent or launch listing — verify before production Hover or tap a dot for the offer, conditions and source. Undated ongoing tiers appear in the table below.

Hetzner’s Inference Experiment is a free OpenAI-compatible API with large per-key limits — but no SLA, and by late 2026 it ran in reduced scope serving only small models. hetzner.com

Fish Audio made S2.1 Pro TTS free with no hard usage cap across 83 languages, including voice cloning, after a 4× inference-efficiency gain — free “for an initial period”. fish.audio

Speechify’s $0 SIMBA Voice Agents plan gives 10,000 minutes a month and up to 10 concurrent agents, with commercial use allowed. speechify.com

On the compute side, DigitalOcean Hatch expanded to up to $100,000 over 12 months for admitted AI/ML startups, and Vast.ai launched a $2,500 GPU-credit startup program — both selective, not public signup tiers. vast.ai · digitalocean.com

High-confidence: confirmed by the provider

The offers below cite an official provider announcement or documentation. Read the small print anyway: several are experimental, early-access or selective. Two official-source rows are shown only in the table: Runpod’s challenge credits (time-boxed, expired) and Databricks’ aggregate program figure.

Full catalogue, including leads to verify

All 59 offers. Amber-badged rows rest on independent coverage or launch listings — verify with the provider before building on them. Units differ (tokens, requests, minutes, GPU hours, dollar credits) and are deliberately not ranked on one axis. Note: Databricks’ “more than $10M in free credits” is aggregate program investment, not a per-user grant.

Announced	Provider	Type	Free offer	Evidence	Conditions	Source

Method: deep-search candidate catalogue of 59 free-tier, trial and startup-program AI offers from 52 independent hosts, compiled 24 Sep 2026 and limited to launches or material expansions since 24 Sep 2025. 39 offers carry an announcement date and appear on the timeline; 20 undated ongoing tiers appear only in the table. Each row records the offer as stated by its source; amber rows are unverified independent claims. Offers already expired by 24 Sep 2026 (e.g. time-boxed challenges) were excluded from featured treatment. Long condition texts are shortened in the table; the source link holds the full detail.

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