Builder credits
AI Power Grid offers a small, manually reviewed credit pilot for builders who will ship a public integration, reusable example, or working demo. The goal is simple: turn a bounded amount of Grid generation into something other people can inspect and use.
Applications are open for review, but selection is not a grant and issuance occurs only while the promotional-credit spend rail is active. Never put an API key, login token, Grid account ID, seed phrase, wallet private key, private customer data, or other secret in a public GitHub issue.
Grid requests may be processed by community-operated workers that can inspect plaintext prompts and outputs. Funded tests must use non-sensitive data.
Grant tiers
| Credit | Intended proof |
|---|---|
| $5 | A focused prototype or compatibility proof |
| $10 | A public integration or reusable example |
| $20 | A working public demo with documented setup |
Choose the smallest tier that can prove the deliverable. Credits are USD-denominated Grid service value, not cash or tokens. They cannot be transferred, withdrawn, sold, or redeemed.
What qualifies
Strong applications have:
- a public repository, deployed demo, or other inspectable project evidence;
- one concrete deliverable that uses Grid text, image, video, audio, model discovery, quotes, or credit inspection;
- a bounded test plan with approximate request volume;
- documentation that tells another builder how AIPG is used; and
- an honest disclosure that requests may reach community-operated workers.
The pilot does not fund anonymous faucets, manufactured traffic, token-price promotion, private experiments with no public artifact, or workloads that need unverified privacy guarantees.
How it works
- Open the public application and describe the project, requested tier, capability, deliverable, and test plan.
- A maintainer reviews usefulness, feasibility, public evidence, and whether the requested tier is proportionate.
- If selected, receive private instructions for linking the approved project to one canonical Grid account. Do not post the account ID in the issue.
- The grant appears as promotional credit in
GET /v1/account/credits. It remains separate from purchased balance. - Ship the promised public artifact and add the result to the application issue before the grant expires.
Each selected account can receive at most one grant in a campaign. Grants expire 60 days after issuance and are issued only while the finite campaign budget and promotional-credit rail are active. Selection is discretionary and availability is not guaranteed.
Keep usage bounded
Use POST /v1/account/credits/quote
before generation, cap output and media duration, and reject unpriced requests.
The 60-second integration guide includes copy-paste setup for
popular clients. The
Web3 starters
show quote-before-dispatch, fixed API origins, and hard request limits.