Mixedbread Free Starter Credits
$5 in one-time Mixedbread usage credits, no credit card
What you get from Mixedbread Free Starter Credits for free
Overview
Mixedbread is a Berlin-based retrieval and search platform known for the open-source mxbai-embed and mxbai-rerank model families. Its hosted Starter tier is free: every new workspace receives $5 in one-time credits, with no card required.
Free Tier Quotas & Limits
- $5 one-time credits per workspace, no credit card requested.
- 100 queries/minute rate limit, with 6,000 uploads/minute for ingestion.
- 3 Stores on the free Starter tier (the Scale tier lists 10,000).
- 3 workspace users.
- Community Slack support.
Credits are spent at the same usage rates on every plan: Index - Fast at $1.50 per 1M content tokens, Index - High Quality at $3 per 1M, semantic search at $4 per 1K queries plus $3.50 per 1K reranked, and storage at $0.50 per 1M content tokens per month. Egress is included.
How to Get Started
- Create an account at mixedbread.com - sign-in is by email or Google/GitHub OAuth.
- The $5 credit is applied to your workspace automatically.
- Create an API key under Settings -> API Keys.
- Create a Store (chunking, indexing, hybrid search, rerank) or call the inference endpoints through the Python or Node SDK.
Because no card is on file, the API simply stops serving when the credit is exhausted rather than auto-billing. A separate startup program offers qualified, venture-backed companies $250 in one-time credits.
Before you claim
- Payment card: Not needed.
- Account: Sign up with the provider.
Key limits
- $5 one-time credits per workspace
- 100 queries/minute; 6,000 uploads/minute for ingestion
- 3 Stores on the Starter tier (the Scale tier lists 10,000)
- 3 workspace users
- 100M chunks per store
- Community Slack support only
Text Embeddings Inference (Apache-2.0) runs on your own machine with no quota. Needs: CPU, or an NVIDIA GPU with CUDA compute capability 7.5 or newer.
Serves Mixedbread's open embedding models locally.
Models served free
Limits as the provider publishes them; a dash means none is published.
| Model | Context | RPM | RPD | TPM | Tools | Vision |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toast 1Starter tier: 100 queries/min, 6,000 uploads/min | — | 100 | — | — | — | — |
Will this fit my app? Check it in the rate-limit calculator (prefilled with its published daily cap at ~800 tokens per request).
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