At a glance
- Credit
- 5 USD of free credit after adding a verified payment method
- Who qualifies
- New Cerebras accounts that add a verified payment method.
- Time to claim
- About 10 minutes
- Approval odds
- High: Granted once a verified card is on file; no review.
- Offer ends
- No end date published
- Credit lasts
- 30 days from grant
- Last checked
- 2026-10-27
Before you start
What the claim asks of you, from the official pages and our own claim run. Not stated means the official page does not say.
- Card on file: Needed
- Paid-tier account: Not needed
- Registered company: Not needed
- Company email: Not needed
- LinkedIn profile: Not asked for
- Country limits: None stated
- Solo developer, no company: Can claim it
How to claim
Open the Cerebras inference docs rate limits page.
Create an account.
Add a verified payment method.
Use the Playground or API; the credit appears on the account.
Start the claim at inference-docs.cerebras.ai/support/rate-limits.
What we hit when we claimed it
- Cerebras asks for a card on file before it grants the 5 dollars of credit.
Limits
- Playground and API stay inactive until a payment method is added.
- Trial limits are 5 requests per minute and 1M tokens per day.
- There is no permanent free tier.
Sources
Every fact above comes from these official pages, last checked on 2026-10-27. Offers change: read the official page before you claim, and trust it where it differs from this page.