AWS Bedrock Credits
New AWS accounts get reported ~$200 in credits usable on Amazon Bedrock to access Claude models.
- Free credit
- $200
- Credit window
- 180 days
- Card required
- Yes
AWS Bedrock Credits scores 9.2/10 for free value in LLM. The main constraint: New AWS customers reportedly receive up to ~$200 in AWS credits (verify current limits); usable for Bedrock model invocation.
Free value score
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Key metrics
Models
40 free · 113+ totalLimits may be stale — last re-verified outside this section's freshness window.
| Model | Family | AA | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus 4.7 | Claude | 42.7 | free |
| Claude Opus 4.6 | Claude | 37.8 | free |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Claude | 35.9 | free |
| Claude Opus 4.5 | Claude | 34.7 | free |
| Mistral Large 3 (675B) | Mistral | 16.2 | free |
| Llama 4 Maverick 17B | Llama | 14.3 | free |
| Llama 4 Scout 17B | Llama | 10 | free |
| Llama 3.1 405B Instruct | Llama | 8.5 | free |
| Claude 3 Haiku | Claude | 3.9 | free |
| Amazon Nova 2 Lite | Nova | — | free |
| Amazon Nova 2 Multimodal Embeddings | Nova | — | free |
| Amazon Nova 2 Sonic | Nova | — | free |
| Amazon Nova Canvas | Nova | — | free |
| Amazon Nova Lite | Nova | — | free |
| Amazon Nova Micro | Nova | — | free |
| Amazon Nova Premier | Nova | — | free |
| Amazon Nova Pro | Nova | — | free |
| Amazon Nova Reel | Nova | — | free |
| Amazon Nova Sonic | Nova | — | free |
| Amazon Rerank | Amazon | — | free |
| Amazon Titan Embeddings G1 - Text v1 | Titan | — | free |
| Amazon Titan Image Generator G1 v2 | Titan | — | free |
| Amazon Titan Multimodal Embeddings G1 | Titan | — | free |
| Amazon Titan Text Embeddings V2 | Titan | — | free |
| Claude 3.5 Haiku | Claude | — | free |
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude | — | free |
| Claude Opus 4 | Claude | — | free |
| Claude Opus 4.1 | Claude | — | free |
| Claude Sonnet 4 | Claude | — | free |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Claude | — | free |
| Llama 3 70B Instruct | Llama | — | free |
| Llama 3 8B Instruct | Llama | — | free |
| Llama 3.1 70B Instruct | Llama | — | free |
| Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | Llama | — | free |
| Llama 3.2 11B Vision | Llama | — | free |
| Llama 3.2 90B Vision | Llama | — | free |
| Llama 3.3 70B Instruct | Llama | — | free |
| Mistral Large 24.07 | Mistral | — | free |
| Mixtral 8x7B Instruct | Mistral | — | free |
| Pixtral Large 25.02 | Mistral | — | free |
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What you get
Reported ~$200 new-account credits
Access Claude via Amazon Bedrock
No separate Anthropic account needed
Card on file usually required at signup
Gotchas
- ~$200 one-time AWS credits
New AWS customers receive up to $200 in AWS credits that can be applied to Bedrock model invocation; once exhausted, full pay-as-you-go pricing applies.
- Credit card required at signup
AWS account creation requires a valid payment card on file even though the credits cover initial usage; charges apply once credits are exhausted.
- New AWS customers only
The $200 credit offer is exclusively for new AWS accounts; existing AWS customers are not eligible.
- Credits expire within 12 months
AWS promotional credits typically carry a 12-month expiry window from account activation; unused credits are forfeited.
Sources
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"Today, we're announcing some enhancements to the AWS Free Tier program, offering up to $200 in AWS credits that can be used across AWS services. You'll receive $100 in AWS credits upon sign-up and can earn an additional $100 in credits by using services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), AWS Lambda, Amazon Bedrock, and AWS Budgets."
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-free-tier-update-new-customers-can-get-started-and-explore-aws-with-up-to-200-in-credits/ -
"The Free account plan ensures you won't incur any charges while you explore AWS services and build your applications. Your free account plan ends after six months or when your credits are fully used - whichever occurs first."
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awsaccountbilling/latest/aboutv2/free-tier-plans.html -
"Does Amazon Bedrock have a free tier? Amazon Bedrock does not have a permanent free tier. All model inference is pay-as-you-go from the first request."
https://cloudburn.io/blog/amazon-bedrock-pricing -
"Claude Opus 4.8 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it well above average among comparable models (averaging 36)."
https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/claude-opus-4-8
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