{"slug": "cerebras-discontinue-its-free-tier-plan", "title": "Cerebras discontinue its free tier plan", "summary": "Cerebras discontinued its free tier plan for its inference API, replacing it with a $5 free credit offer for new accounts. The company now offers paid Developer and Enterprise tiers, as well as Pro and Max subscriptions for its Cerebras Code product, with the free tier no longer available.", "body_md": "# Pricing\n\n## Inference API access\n\n### Free Trial\n\nGet started with $5 in free credits after making an account\n\n- Access to all Cerebras powered models\n- The world’s fastest inference – 20x faster than OpenAI and Anthropic\n- Community support via Discord\n\n[get api key](https://cloud.cerebras.ai/)\n\n### Developer\n\nGenerous rate limits for power users\n\nEverything in Free\n\n- Self-serve payment starting at just $10\n- 10x higher rate limits than free tier\n- Higher priority processing\n\n[get api key](https://cloud.cerebras.ai/)\n\n### Enterprise\n\nHighest throughput, custom weights, and guaranteed uptime\n\nEverything in Developer, plus:\n\n- Highest rate limits for production workloads\n- Lowest latency with dedicated queue priority\n- Support for custom model weights\n- Model fine-tuning and training services\n- Dedicated support team with response time guarantees\n\n[contact sales](/build-with-us)\n\n## Cerebras Code\n\n### Pro\n\n$50/month\n\n- Top open source model access with fast, high-context completions.\n- Send up to 24 million tokens/day ($48/day worth of value)\n- Ideal for indie devs, simple agentic workflows, and weekend projects.\n\n[sold out](https://cloud.cerebras.ai/)\n\n### Max\n\n$200/month\n\n- Top open source model for heavy coding workflows.\n- Send up to 120m tokens/day ($240/day worth of value)\n- Ideal for full-time development, IDE integrations, code refactoring, and multi-agent systems.\n\n[sold out](https://cloud.cerebras.ai/)\n\n## Developer Tier Pricing\n\n*Preview models are intended for evaluation purposes only, and are not intended for use in production environments.\n\n** Deprecation date Aug 17, 2026.\n\n## Partners\n\nGet access to Cerebras Inference through our partner APIs", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cerebras-discontinue-its-free-tier-plan", "canonical_source": "https://www.cerebras.ai/pricing", "published_at": "2026-07-16 22:43:43+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-16 23:17:44.295881+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-infrastructure", "ai-products", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Cerebras"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cerebras-discontinue-its-free-tier-plan", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cerebras-discontinue-its-free-tier-plan.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cerebras-discontinue-its-free-tier-plan.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/cerebras-discontinue-its-free-tier-plan.jsonld"}}