Get $5 of Free Claude API Credit — WELCOME5 for New Accounts

$5 of Claude API credit, on the house

We’re giving every new AI Prime Tech account $5 of free API credit to try the platform. No credit card needed to claim it, and no catch — it’s real, spendable balance you can point at Claude Opus 4.8, Sonnet 4.6, Haiku 4.5, Fable, GPT, or Gemini through a single API key.

If you’ve been meaning to test a cheaper, drop-in Claude API gateway in your own code, this is the easiest possible way to do it: sign up, apply the code, and start sending requests in a couple of minutes.

How to claim your $5

1. Create an account. Head to the sign-up page and register with your email.
2. Enter the promo code in the optional Promo Code field during signup:

WELCOME5

3. That’s it. Your account is credited with $5.00 immediately. You’ll see the balance in your dashboard, ready to use.

The credit applies the moment your account is created — there’s nothing else to redeem afterward.

What you can do with $5

Five dollars goes a surprisingly long way at our rates, which run up to 80% below official pricing. A rough sense of what that buys:

Because you get one API key for every model, you can route cheap tasks to Haiku and hard ones to Opus without juggling accounts.

Works with the tools you already use

The credit works with anything that speaks the Anthropic or OpenAI API format — just change one base URL:

export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL=https://claudeapikey.dev
export ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN=sk-your-key-here

That means Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Aider, Continue, and the official SDKs all work out of the box. Drop in your key, point at the gateway, and your existing code keeps running — now backed by your free credit.

A few honest notes

• The $5 is a one-time welcome credit, one per new account.
• It’s pay-as-you-go balance — there’s no subscription attached and nothing auto-renews.
• If you later want unlimited usage for a fixed period instead of per-token billing, we also offer time-boxed unlimited plans (starting with a $0.99 one-hour trial) — but the $5 credit is the no-commitment way to start.

Takeaways

• New accounts get $5 free with code WELCOME5 at signup.
• It’s real balance across Claude, GPT, and Gemini — one key, up to 80% off.
• Works instantly with Claude Code, Cursor, Cline and any Anthropic/OpenAI-compatible tool.

Create your account and claim $5 →