Does Cerebras Inference require a credit card?

Yes — the official docs require a payment method or prepaid credit before you can use the API. FAQ: credits are granted 'after adding a verified payment method'; without one, Playground and API stay inactive.

What are Cerebras Inference's free rate limits?

For gpt-oss-120b (Free Trial): 5 requests/min, 30K tokens/min, 1M tokens/day. Total TPM (incl. cached) 90K · TPH 1M

When was this Cerebras Inference data last verified?

Oct 21, 2026, against: Rate limits + FAQ.

Trial credits only/Report for October 2026

Cerebras Inference

Free API tier limits · LLM inference

No permanent free tier: $5 trial credits after adding a verified payment method, expiring after 30 days.

Card requiredVerified Oct 21, 20261 official sourceLLM inference

5requests / minuteRank 9 of 9 that publish it

—requests / day · not published

30Ktokens / minuteRank 4 of 5 that publish it

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Headline figures for gpt-oss-120b (Free Trial). Ranks compare providers' published headline figures, not identical models.

Free allowance

$5 credits, expire 30 days after grant.

Total TPM (incl. cached) 90K · TPH 1M

Payment method. FAQ: credits are granted 'after adding a verified payment method'; without one, Playground and API stay inactive.

Limits by model

Model / tier	RPM	RPD	TPM	TPD / other
gpt-oss-120b (Free Trial)	5	—	30K uncached / 90K total	1M (TPH 1M)
qwen-3.8-27b (Free Trial)	5	—	30K uncached / 90K total	1M (TPH 1M)

Models on the free offer

gpt-oss-120bqwen-3.8-27b

Worth knowing

FAQ: 'Is there a permanently free tier? No.'
Token-bucket rate limiting; cached tokens don't count toward the uncached TPM bucket.

Change history

Oct 21, 2026No permanent free tier — $5 / 30-day trial, card required

Questions

Does Cerebras Inference have a free API tier?: Trial credits only. No permanent free tier: $5 trial credits after adding a verified payment method, expiring after 30 days.
Does Cerebras Inference require a credit card?: Yes — the official docs require a payment method or prepaid credit before you can use the API. FAQ: credits are granted 'after adding a verified payment method'; without one, Playground and API stay inactive.
What are Cerebras Inference's free rate limits?: For gpt-oss-120b (Free Trial): 5 requests/min, 30K tokens/min, 1M tokens/day. Total TPM (incl. cached) 90K · TPH 1M
When was this Cerebras Inference data last verified?: Oct 21, 2026, against: Rate limits + FAQ.