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LLM 5.2/10

Third-party OpenAI-compatible aggregator with a reported large free-credit signup bonus.

Free credit
$0.5
Credit window
30 days
Card required
No

b.ai scores 5.2/10 for free value in LLM. The main constraint: Reported ~500k free credits on signup via Google login with no card/verification (unconfirmed; verify current limits).

Category LLM Kind LLM API aggregator Caveats Unofficial third-party proxy: it routes and can see your prompts and any keys you send. Signup bonus is a time-limited promo and may change or vanish; the promo openly encourages creating multiple accounts via gmail +aliases, which violates typical ToS and risks bans. Verify all numbers before relying on them. Renewal one_time Card required No Eligibility anyone

Free value score

5.2 / 10
Show the math
Value 4.4/10
value = 0.5 $ one-time
weighted score = 0.7 * 4.4/10
Model Quality 10/10
value = 56 artificial_analysis_score
weighted score = 0.2 * 10/10
Volume 1/10
value = 50000 tok/mo
weighted score = 0.1 * 1/10
Access 4/10
value = 4/10
score = 4/10

Key metrics

Claude Opus 4.8 56 Best model
$0.5 Credit
No Commercial use

Models

0 free · 27 total

Limits may be stale — last re-verified outside this section's freshness window.

Model Family AA Access
Claude Opus 4.8 Claude 55.7 paid
GPT-5.5 GPT 54.8 paid
GPT-5.4 GPT 51.4 paid
Gemini 3.5 Flash Gemini 50.2 paid
Gemini 3.1 Pro Gemini 46.5 paid
MiniMax M3 MiniMax 44.4 paid
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek 44.3 paid
Claude Opus 4.7 Claude 42.7 paid
GPT-5.2 GPT 42.2 paid
DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek 40.3 paid
GLM-5.1 GLM 40.2 paid
GPT-5.4 Mini GPT 40 paid
GLM-5 GLM 39.5 paid
GPT-5.4 Nano GPT 38.2 paid
Kimi K2.5 Kimi 38.1 paid
MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax 38.1 paid
Claude Opus 4.6 Claude 37.8 paid
Qwen3.6-27B Qwen 37 paid
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Claude 35.9 paid
Claude Opus 4.5 Claude 34.7 paid
Gemini 3 Flash Gemini 27.4 paid
DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek 24.7 paid
Claude Haiku 4.5 Claude paid
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Claude paid
GPT-5 Mini GPT paid
GPT-5 Nano GPT paid
GPT-5.4 Pro GPT paid
GPT-5.5 Instant GPT paid

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What you get

Reported ~500k free signup credits (verify)

Google login, no card/verification reported

Models: DeepSeek V4 Pro & Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash, MiniMax M3

OpenAI-compatible API

Gotchas

  • ~500k credits, one-time

    Signup grants a reported one-time pool of roughly 500,000 internal credits that does not regenerate once spent.

  • Promo can vanish anytime

    The signup bonus is a time-limited growth promo that may shrink, change, or disappear without notice, so the credits cannot be relied on long-term.

  • Unsafe for production

    It is an unofficial third-party proxy that can see all prompts and any keys sent through it, making it unsuitable for sensitive or production workloads.

  • Account-farming risks ban

    The promo openly encourages creating extra accounts via gmail +aliases to farm credits, which violates typical ToS and risks account bans.

Sources

credits byok no-card third-party

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