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Upstage — free tier setup
What you get free
The richest trial credit in this wave, but it expires. Per the catalog: "Credits: $10 for 3 months" — category trial, shared pool across the Solar model family; the balance decays with use AND hard-expires 3 months after signup. The console confirms the amount ("Sign up to receive $10 in free credit") but does not restate the 3-month window on the fetched page (expiry window per catalog/seed repo — verify on first signup). The gotcha: the catalog lists solar-pro2/solar-mini, while the console now demos solar-pro3 — model lineup is moving, so list models before hardcoding one.
Friction check
| Credit card | unknown |
| Phone verification | unknown |
| Org/membership | none |
| Est. time to first key | ~5m (3 steps) |
| Trains on your prompts | no — console: "we do not store or reuse any data sent to our APIs" |
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.