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Aion Labs — free tier setup
What you get free
A permanent $0 tier on Aion Labs' OpenAI-compatible API, specialized in roleplay/storytelling models (Aion 2.x line plus a Llama 3.1 8B RP fine-tune). Per the catalog: "mnfst: 'Permanent free tier, no credit card required. 15 RPM, 20K tokens/day.' Aion pricing page: '$0 — A daily credit allowance to try agent jobs, the API, and browser chat. No card required.'" The gotcha: the official pricing page frames the free tier only as a "daily credit allowance" — the 15 RPM / 20K TPD figures come from the mnfst seed repo, not from Aion's own pages, so treat them as approximate until you hit them.
Friction check
| Credit card | no ("No card required") |
| Phone verification | unknown |
| Org/membership | none |
| Est. time to first key | ~5m (signup → dashboard key, 3 steps) |
| Trains on your prompts | unknown (terms/privacy not fetched) |
The rest of this guide — the key-obtain walkthrough, first request, the limits that will bite you, and the rotation runbook — ships with the Indie field library. What you’ve read above is the real first section, not a blurred preview; the remainder simply isn’t in this page.