Sarvam AI Free API Credits
₹100 in free Sarvam AI credits across speech, translation, and LLM APIs
What you get from Sarvam AI Free API Credits for free
Overview
Sarvam AI is an Indian AI platform built around the country's 22 scheduled languages. According to the official Credits & Rate Limits documentation, Sarvam offers ₹100 worth of free credits to every user on signup, usable across any of its APIs, with no upfront cost.
Free Tier Quotas & Limits
- ₹100 in complimentary credits on signup
- Credits are universal and can be used across all supported APIs
- Credits never expire and roll over automatically until used
- Starter-plan rate limits: 60 requests/min for speech, translation, and text services; 40 requests/min for Sarvam-105B; 20 requests/min for batch speech-to-text; Document AI: Digitise 200/300/400 requests/min and Extract 30/50/60 requests/min, tier-dependent
- Limits are enforced per account, not per API key
- Once credits are exhausted, API calls return errors until you top up
- No monthly commitment and no credit card required
Key APIs
Speech-to-text (Saaras), text-to-speech (Bulbul), translation and transliteration (Sarvam-Translate, Mayura), language identification, document intelligence, dubbing, and chat completion with Sarvam-105B. An OpenAI-compatible chat endpoint is available.
How to Get Started
Sign up at the Sarvam dashboard, generate an API key, and call the REST endpoints directly or through the SDK. Credits are provisioned automatically on first login.
Before you claim
- Who can claim: Every new Sarvam account receives INR 100 in free credits at signup; no credit card required.
- Payment card: Not needed.
- Account: Sign up with the provider.
Key limits
- INR 100 one-time signup credits
- Credits never expire and work across all Sarvam APIs
- Starter: 60 req/min for speech-to-text (REST), translation and text services
- Sarvam-105B limited to 40 req/min on Starter
- Document AI: Digitise 200/300/400 req/min, Extract 30/50/60 req/min (tier-dependent)
Eligibility
Open to any developer with an email address. Credits sit in one shared balance per organisation, used by every workspace and API key; you can invite teammates to the organisation.
As the provider states it on the date shown above. The provider decides who qualifies.
Not eligible? 3 alternatives open to everyone
This offer is only open in India. These audio offers have no student, startup, nonprofit or country requirement.
- Hume AI Free Tier — $20 free credits for new accounts plus a monthly free API tierHume AI · Verified · No card
- Amazon Polly Free Tier — Millions of free text-to-speech characters a month across Polly voicesaws.amazon.com · Verified · No card
- Deepgram Free $200 Credit — $200 in free credits for Deepgram speech-to-text and TTS, no carddeepgram.com · Verified · No card
Check everything you qualify for — five questions, no signup.
Models served free
Limits as the provider publishes them; a dash means none is published.
| Model | Context | RPM | RPD | TPM | Tools | Vision |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sarvam-105bStarter tier chat limit for this model (other chat models 60 req/min) | — | 40 | — | — | — | — |
| bulbul:v3Starter tier TTS REST limit; limits are per account | — | 30 | — | — | — | — |
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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