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Baseten — free tier setup
What you get free
A one-time trial credit on Baseten's Model APIs. Per the catalog: "Credits: $30" — category trial, shared pool, and the balance decays with every token billed; once spent it does not renew. The official pricing page confirms credits exist ("new Baseten accounts come with credits so you can get to know the UI and experiment with deployments for free") but does not restate the $30 figure or an expiry window (exact amount/expiry unconfirmed on official pages — verify on first signup). The gotcha: unverified accounts are throttled to 15 RPM until you verify.
Friction check
| Credit card | unknown |
| Phone verification | unknown |
| Org/membership | none |
| Est. time to first key | ~5m (unconfirmed) |
| Trains on your prompts | unknown |
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.