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Novita AI — free tier setup
What you get free
A small, expiring trial credit — and the amount depends on how you arrive. Per the catalog: "Credits: $0.5 for 1 year" — category trial, shared pool, and it both decays with use and hard-expires after the stated year. Catalog caveat to lead with: "Credit amount varies by signup path: base signup ~$0.5; referral/affiliate links have historically advertised up to $10 in credits. cheahjs README lists '$0.5 for 1 year' (via a referral-tagged link)." The official quickstart only promises "new users a voucher with some credit" — so verify your actual granted amount in the console before planning around it.
Friction check
| Credit card | unknown |
| Phone verification | unknown |
| Org/membership | none (Google/GitHub or email) |
| Est. time to first key | ~5m (3 steps) |
| 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.